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EU to get first onshore Carbon Dioxide Removal facility
2024-08-21 (or before) in EuronewsThe project could be key to Europe’s climate ambitions.
Why you should prepare for climate disasters with your neighbours
2024-08-02 (or before) in EuronewsUnsure what you can do about the climate crisis? Community action is key, says the Climate Majority Project.
State of emergency declared in Crete’s Messara due to water crisis
2024-07-25 (or before) in EuronewsThe Faneromeni dam, the main water source for the area, has seen its levels drop drastically due to illegal water pumping, low rainfall and high temperatures.
Tagged under: Drought | Water Resources
French farmers face losses amid heavy and frequent rainfall
2024-07-14 (or before) in EuronewsPersistent rainfall in France is reducing soft wheat production, resulting in a high decrease in the overall harvest and substantial losses for individual farmers.
Scientists explain why Greece is so badly hit by climate change
2024-06-24 (or before) in EuronewsMarine heatwaves, medicanes and island microclimates: Here’s why Greece is on the frontlines of climate change in Europe.
Tagged under: Greece
'Disaster': Sicily's farmers sound alarm as water dries up
2024-06-21 (or before) in EuronewsItaly declared a drought emergency in Sicily a couple of months ago, hitting farmers and breeders the hardest.
Tagged under: Drought
Spanish farmers struggle to adapt to worsening heatwaves and droughts
2024-04-15 (or before) in EuronewsOlive oil production is expected to drop by around 30% due to the heatwaves, farmers told Euronews, even if there are late rains before the harvest ends in November.
Tagged under: Drought
World’s largest sand battery set to slash emissions in Finnish town
2024-03-10 (or before) in EuronewsThe battery will be able to store a week’s heat demand in winter - how does it work?
Tagged under: Europe | Energy Storage | Batteries | Wind Power | Innovation
EU to introduce 10-year prison sentences for environmental crimes
2024-02-27 (or before) in EuronewsCountries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law.
Barcelona imposes severe water restrictions during worst drought ever
2024-02-01 (or before) in EuronewsCitizens could be fined for washing cars or watering gardens.
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Cars
Inside the world's first reactor that could produce unlimited energy
2024-01-24 (or before) in EuronewsEuronews Next goes behind the scenes at the world’s largest nuclear fusion device attempting to harness the same reaction that powers the Sun and stars.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Nuclear Fusion
Drought reveals sunken church in Spanish reservoir
2024-01-17 (or before) in Euronews'Drought tourists’ are visiting to see the 11th-century church which was submerged 60 years ago.
Why is Shell suing Greenpeace for €2 million?
2023-11-09 (or before) in EuronewsThe environmental group says it is 'one of the biggest legal threats' in history against its ability to campaign.
Tagged under: Shell | Greenpeace | Activism
Milan plans to ban cars from city centre by mid 2024
2023-10-24 (or before) in EuronewsLevels of pollutants in Milan's air are almost four times the safe amount.
Tagged under: Pollution | Cars | Italy
'Could a ‘beanless' brew save coffee from climate change?'
2023-10-06 (or before) in EuronewsCoffee is causing deforestation at an ‘alarming rate’ - could a beanless brew be the solution?
Tagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change
'Gobsmackingly bananas': Scientists react to September heat record
2023-10-06 (or before) in EuronewsThe Copernicus Climate Change Service said the global average temperature for September broke records by such an absurd margin that climate experts are struggling to describe the phenomenon.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Pope Francis to write second part of landmark environmental letter
2023-09-20 (or before) in EuronewsThe previous document is thought to have had an impact on commitments at the 2015 Paris climate conference.
Tagged under: Pope Francis
Greta’s school strikes led 30% of Swiss citizens to change habits
2023-09-11 (or before) in Euronews'Collective action can have a direct effect on society’, study on climate strikes shows.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Sustainability has lost its meaning as the nuclear lobby triumphs
2023-08-26 (or before) in EuronewsListening to the 14 EU country-strong Nuclear Alliance that lobbied for nuclear power's green label and now wants to see it treated the same as other renewables means everything is allowed, Thomas Stuart Kirkland and Christiana Mauro write.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Sustainability
Heatwave forces French nuclear power plants to limit energy output
2023-07-14 (or before) in EuronewsThe high temperature warning has come early this year but will affect fewer nuclear power plants.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | France | Rivers
Fact check: Do solar panels really struggle in the heat?
2023-06-13 (or before) in EuronewsBritain’s resort to coal power wasn't because solar panels can't handle the heat, say campaigners, as temperatures topped 30C.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Heatwaves
France is preparing for a ‘realistic’ 4°C global warming scenario
2023-05-25 (or before) in EuronewsAfter living through the hottest summer on record in 2022 and a prolonged drought, France is now preparing for a future where extreme weather could become commonplace.
Tagged under: Drought | France
This French city is making public transport free
2023-02-20 (or before) in EuronewsCould Paris be next to make their transport free?
Tagged under: France
England built 2 onshore wind turbines in 2022. We asked experts why
2023-02-12 (or before) in EuronewsA former UK Prime Minister's decision has stalled the installation of onshore wind turbines in England.
Tagged under: Wind Power
Brussels recommends EU-wide exit from controversial energy treaty
2023-02-08 (or before) in EuronewsFrance, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland are among those who had advocated an exit from the contentious agreement.
Tagged under: Spain | Germany | France
'Mammoth' new plant will suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 a year from the air
2022-06-30 (or before) in EuronewsA climate tech firm plans to launch this direct air capture plant in the next two years.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
The longest river in Italy is drying up: How will locals survive?
2022-05-15 (or before) in EuronewsThe mighty Po River nourishes a vast area of northern Italy, but climate change is causing a devastating drought.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Rivers
What does India’s heatwave mean for global food supplies?
2022-04-28 (or before) in EuronewsThe severe heatwave has come unusually early in spring, and will put more than 1 billion people in India and Pakistan at risk.
Tagged under: India | Heatwaves
Chemical pollution has now passed safe planetary limit, scientists say
2022-01-19 (or before) in EuronewsThe rate at which we are producing chemicals has now outstripped our ability to assess and monitor their risk to the environment.
How will post-Merkel Germany tackle the climate crisis? | View
2021-10-14 (or before) in Euronews"Angela Merkel had more luck in pushing the climate agenda abroad than at home - in Germany, she had no choice but to balance between competing demands from powerful car and coal industries."
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