Rural populist party emerges as big winner in Dutch elections
Success of Farmer-Citizen Movement in provincial vote is heavy blow to Mark Rutte’s four-party coalition A new populist party surfing a wave of rural anger...
Category : Environment
Catalonia launches operation to clear fish from reservoir to save drinking water
Focus is on Sau reservoir, where water supplies have plunged to their lowest level since 1990 Officials in Catalonia have launched what is being described...
US energy firms use Ukraine war to lock in long-term gas contracts
Oil and gas companies seek expansive contracts to tackle short-term problem of tight European gas supply American oil and gas companies are pushing to solve...
Boldly not going: zero-travel ‘touring’ play paves the way for eco theatre
Using local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate...
World’s oldest European hedgehog discovered in Denmark
‘Emotional’ posthumous discovery of 16-year-old hedgehog gives conservationists hope for the mammals’ future preservation A 16-year-old European hedgehog called Thorvald has been crowned the oldest...
Lynx facing extinction in France as population drops at most to 150 cats
Urgent action needed as DNA tests show their genetic diversity is so low they could vanish from the country in 30 years Conservationists warn that...
Alarming levels of PFAS in Norwegian Arctic ice pose new risk to wildlife
Oxford University-led study detects 26 types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems Norwegian Arctic ice is contaminated with alarming levels of...
Britain’s biggest gas supplier accused of ‘profiteering’ from energy crisis
Climate campaigners hit out at Norwegian state-owned Equinor’s record £62bn profits as household bills rise Britain’s biggest gas supplier, the Norwegian state-owned oil company Equinor,...
Sunak ‘risks full-scale trade war’ with Brussels by scrapping EU laws
Leading European politicians have warned that the prime minister’s plan to ditch EU legislation will trigger retaliatory countermeasures, including imposing tariffs on goods Rishi Sunak’s...
Leaked EU plan reveals response to US and Chinese green subsidies
Draft plan to loosen state aid rules follows Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Chinese subsidies The EU executive will loosen state aid rules and...