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Alternative to agricultural irrigation with double treated wastewater

In partnership with the European Commission

Olive trees irrigated with treated wastewater: in Puglia, southern Italy, a pilot project thus combats drought and emerging pollutants. The molecule is generated by combining hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet rays. The results of this experience will be known in two years.

26 October 2026

Climate

The Doomsday Glacier is ‘committed’ to melting. Can we stop it?

The total collapse of Thwaites Glacier, known as the Doomsday Glacier, would contribute an estimated 65cm to global sea level rise.

16 October 2026

Earth News

This EU capital just voted to ban fossil fuel adverts for good

“Cities can’t keep working to cut emissions while allowing their own advertising spaces to encourage more flying and fossil fuel consumption.”

9 October 2026

Nature

Why this remote volcanic island lost Earth’s largest penguin colony

Scientists have blamed human-caused climate change for the decline in chinstrap penguins on the remote Zavodovski Island.

7 October 2026

Climate

Past emissions have ‘locked in’ climate damage. Can we change course?

From rising sea levels to food systems fuelling climate change – experts have laid out 10 insights that require urgent action.

6 October 2026

Earth News

'Only the starting line': Germany plans to quit fossil fuels by 2045

Germany has become the third country in Europe to unveil a national roadmap away from fossil fuels. But experts say targets still 'fall short'.

24 September 2026

Climate

'Planetary boundaries' necessary for life breached, scientists warn

The latest Planetary Health Check warns that seven of Earth’s critical life support systems are experiencing record transgression.

22 September 2026

Climate

Europe’s babies face 84% more 'fire weather' than their grandparents

Scientists have warned that one particular European country will be hit hard by extreme fire weather conditions if our reliance on fossil fuels doesn’t end.

21 September 2026

Earth News

More than 12 trillion tonnes of ice lost in climate change's big melt

Ice loss began accelerating in the 1990s, according to a major scientific study.

18 September 2026

Climate

Europe named most 'unusually hot place’ on Earth after sizzling summer

“These past three months are a warning sign we cannot afford to ignore – the human and economic costs of fossil fuels are playing out in real time.”

17 September 2026

Earth News

The 5 positive tipping points that could ‘rapidly’ heal the world

“For too long a sense has prevailed that solutions to the climate and nature are out of reach. This new research explodes that myth once and for all.”

12 September 2026

Earth News

Mediterranean Sea now at spa temperature, daily average 28.54°C on 13 August

On 13 August the Mediterranean averaged 28.54°C, its highest level since comparable records began in 1940, Aemet reports, capping a summer with the warmest July on record at sea and in mainland Spain.

6 September 2026

Climate

Glacier marriages: An ancient solution to a modern problem

Local communities in Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan are turning to the Indigenous practice of glacier grafting as water shortages take hold.

3 September 2026

Climate

Glacier at centre of Nepal disaster had been retreating for 35 years

Nepal has contributed little to the emissions driving global warming yet it is suffering the worst consequences.

2 September 2026

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Hungary’s lakes and rivers hit record lows as severe drought deepens

Hungary is facing a severe water crisis, with prolonged heat and drought driving water levels sharply lower. Around 99% of the country is under severe or extreme drought, while desertification threatens the Great Hungarian Plain.

21 August 2026

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Drought on Serbia's Sava River reveals long-lost WWII shipwreck

Serbia has seen the remains of a century-old steam tug emerge from the Sava River near Sremska Mitrovica, after prolonged heat and drought drove water levels exceptionally low.

20 August 2026