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World Environment Day is on 5 June - a day which has drawn attention to certain ecological imbroglio since 1972. Too many institutions, not enough time
A 12 million Euro security fence surrounds the small German seaside town, where the largest industrial nations in the world met on 6 and 7 June for the G8 summit
Wildfire 2007, the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference, takes place in Seville, Spain from 13-17 May
Italian MEP and REACH Rapporteur Guido Sacconi on the long haul for the regulation on chemical substances
The new European regulation on chemical substances is here, both for industries and animals. But research does not get the last word
The Parisian architect mixes architecture with ecology: a fashionable fifty-year-old with a diverse background and designer of the offbeat Tower Flower in Paris
Winter is becoming disturbingly mild, humid and snow-less, a fact which is making the ski industry sweat
Car manufacturers will have to reduce petrol consumption in all new vehicles, say the European Commission. Yet Angela Merkel wants to defend the interests of the German car industry
The city of Budapest wants to build a science park on the site of the former Óbuda gasworks
By building pulp mills, Finnish global corporation Botnia 'is willing to export pollution' along the binational stream, Argentina claims. Their announcements of further highway blockades is disrupting trade and travel
The economic movement has really taken off in the European Union. Gaga Pignatelli, representative for International Association of Alternative Trade Italy, explains why
Europeans politicians are catching onto the voters’ awakening interest in the environment. Is ecology compatible with politics?
Where do newer, smaller parties like the Dutch ‘Party for Animals’ (PvdD), with its prominent logo of a cow contently chewing on a flower, fit into the political spectrum?
EU member states will come together for a conference on road safety held on 3-4 November in Verona. The event focuses on road accidents which cause almost 43,000 deaths each year
A human being weighing 70 kilos needs to drink 2,1 litres of water per day. Yet only 1% of the water available on earth is drinkable. And nearly 70% of this water is used for irrigation
Dried water, artificial rivers, icebergs in the Thames or space agencies searching for artificial water are just a few of the methods used to fight the current water shortage
Despite the new EU’s new fishing agreement with Morocco, fishermen in Andalusia fear for their future
Once a favourite of the flower power generation, living on a canal boat has become a privilege for the young and affluent. Today modern houseboats are not longer dingy eccentric dwellings for the marginal, but fully equipped modern pads
For years the unspoiled beauty of Montenegro used to be the best kept secret in Europe. Now the sights of old Venetian squares, spectacular mountains, bays, sandy beaches are once more a favourite destination for globe-trotters around the world
Iceland, summer 2006
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September 30, 2008 Despite the changes in leadership at the Hungarian Ministry of Environment and Water Protection the bilateral negotiations regarding the foaming of the river Raba, which has for long been a dispute between Hungary and Austria, are seems to remain on the right track. The first comprehensive test ...
After the article about the dangerous status of our Baltic sea and the plans for saving it promoted by the last Helsinki conference, we went out in Tallinn taking pictures of our coast. And the results do not seem to be so encouraging...
Babelyon's Marie Signoret has just published in cafebabel.com an article about the anti-SUVs movement in Lyon.
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