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Renewables are meeting 95% of Portugal’s electricity needs. How did it become a European leader?

Portugal generated an ‘historic’ 95 per cent of its electricity from renewables in April, according to the network operator REN.…

This country has become the first in modern history to lose all of its glaciers

Venezuela has lost its last glacier, making it the first nation in modern history to hold this unenviable record. At…

Two Just Stop Oil protestors in their 80s smash glass around Magna Carta

Two Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s have broken the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library…

Fossil fuels are ‘on the way out’ in the EU as they dropped to record low in April

Fossil fuels provided less than a quarter of the EU’s energy for the first time in April. The good news…

World’s largest air capture plant opens in Europe. Is it really a ‘misguided scientific experiment’?

A record-sized carbon capture plant has launched in Iceland, in what advocates say is another “proof point” for the climate-change-tackling…

‘We will feed the world in 50 years’: Scientists behind giant seed vault win World Food Prize

Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world’s agricultural diversity will be…

Severe flooding leaves at least 100 dead and thousands homeless in Brazil

Heavy rains have caused catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil killing at least 100 people and leaving thousands more homeless. The…

Critical Raw Materials – Lithium

The Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), recently adopted by the EU Council, paves the way for the European industry to…

What is scrubber water? Ships pollute Baltic Sea to the tune of €680 million in 8 years, study finds

Ship pollution doesn’t tend to hold much attention unless something has gone seriously wrong. When the Marco Polo ferry ran…

Sweden, Portugal, Luxembourg: Which EU countries use the most – and least – renewable energy?

The amount of renewable energy used by EU countries is on the rise, according to a recent report. Eurostat, the…

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