Environment

As the international community continues to grapple with the future of humanity, most recently at this month’s UN Summit of the Future, the question of how to feed and nourish...

BRUSSELS — In naming Cypriot Costas Kadis commissioner for oceans and fisheries, Ursula von der Leyen has put a technocrat used to straddling the middle ground in charge of a...

European lawmakers, human rights organizations and lawyers reacted with outrage to POLITICO’s investigation into the massacre of civilians at a gas plant in Mozambique owned by TotalEnergies. The report, published...

Ursula von der Leyen’s crusade against the wolf looked like it was on shaky ground. Then Germany’s environment minister stepped up. At a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday, Germany...

It follows that in the wake of a natural disaster, politicians scramble for a scapegoat. But it was to some bemusement that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk launched an unlikely...

EU countries today backed a proposal from the European Commission to downgrade the protection status of the wolf in Europe, after Germany decided at the last minute to back the...

About two-thirds of Americans say they are worried about climate change. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support funding research into renewable energy, and 3 out of 4 support regulating carbon...

LIVERPOOL, England — Never mind the fiscal blackhole, here’s Ed Miliband. A rainy Labour Party conference in Liverpool was haunted this week by the specter of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ imminent, cost-cutting...

Microplastics are everywhere: In our pantries and refrigerators, in our oceans, in the headlines. The world produces hundreds of millions of tons of plastic each year, much of which will...

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered a new species of “ghost shark”. The Wellington-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on Tuesday that the Australasian Narrow-nosed spookfish...