Pollution | Euronews

English Newsletters Events Podcasts Videos Africanews Search

Russia

Russian pianist performs on garbage

Russian pianist performs on garbage to raise awareness.

30 September 2018

Europe

"Insiders" talks to all sides on the great German coal divide

Despite its Green credentials Germany is a heavy user of coal, especially lignite, which comes from Europe's biggest opencast strip-mine. Now it wants to expand, but first it has to expel protesters from what remains of Hambach forest, which is due to disappear.

28 September 2018

Europe

"Insiders" gets an expert's case against coal

Germany, a heavy user of dirty coal, has a high profile as an environmental leader, but that paradox has to change and the arguments for phasing out this fossil fuel are, says one expert, incontrovertible.

28 September 2018

Europe

German energy giant clears climate protesters from Hambach forest

Central Europe's last primordial forest in Germany is about to be obliterated to dig up dirty and inefficient lignite coal, despite Berlin's trumpeted green credentials. Insiders talks to all sides of the story, but RWE refuses to comment.

28 September 2018

ADVERTISEMENT

World News

Satellite captures space junk in world's first

Around 7,600 tonnes of debris float around Earth posing a real threat to operational satellites.

21 September 2018

No Comment

Watch: Millions join global cleanup campaign

Millions of people marked World Cleanup Day on Saturday, joining what was set to be the biggest-ever single day of volunteer-based waste collection efforts.

15 September 2018

World News

World Cleanup Day 2018: The largest waste collection day in history

14 September 2018

World News

Daily air quality forecasts could save millions of lives, say scientis

Vincent-Henri Peuch, the head of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said the idea was to make information on air pollution levels “as daily, as mundane as a weather forecast”.

8 September 2018

World

British woman set to travel the length of Hudson River on paddle board

A British woman has decided to travel the length of the Hudson River in the US on a paddle board to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Lizzie Carr will paddle for more than a week consecutively to cover the 275 km (170 miles) long journey.

3 September 2018

China

Air pollution can damage our intelligence, study finds

Exposure to air pollution may impede cognitive ability as people become older, with less-educated men the worst affected, a new study has found.

Hungary

Zoo dumps plastic waste in aquarium to highlight ocean pollution problem

Yoghurt pots, plastic bags, fishing nets and flippers are just some of the pieces of rubbish staff at Pecs Zoo have dumped in their tank, which is normally home to thriving schools of fish and other marine animals.

Italy

Plastic bottle raft helps highlight marine pollution problem in Italy

This is the Italian who made a raft out of plastic bottles to highlight the problem of marine waste in our seas.

France

French ozone levels set to spike in the heat

French authorities are taking measures to reduce pollution levels amid concerns that ozone levels will spike, adding chronic heart and lung disease to the list of health risks brought about by the heatwave.

Chile

Easter Island restricts tourists visits

The island's mayor, Petro Edmunds has reduced the number of days from 90 to 30 because, he says, foreigners are "damaging the local idiosyncrasy"

World News

Earth Overshoot Day is the earliest in almost half a century

The day marks when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what our planet can renew in that year. This year, it falls on Aug. 1 - one day earlier than in 2017, which fell on Aug. 2, and the earliest since our planet went into "overshoot" in 1970, which fell on Dec. 29.

Belgium

Five tonnes of plastic waste from the sea is transformed into a whale

Five tons of plastic waste has been pulled from seawater and transformed into the Bruges Whale, a gigantic sculpture that highlights the staggering amount of waste floating in our oceans.

No Comment

From bass to soprano, artist leads whale choir for UK exhibition

An exhibition about whales has been providing visitors in northern England with a somewhat different insight into the huge mammals with a choir of volunteers mimicking the sounds the species makes.

No Comment

Man back-flips to safety from a highway sign, gets arrested

A man in California standing up on a freeway sign this morning back-flipped his way to safety — and then he was arrested.

Greece

"Waste to wear" project makes clothes out of discarded fishing nets

The Healthy Seas project is trying to protect fish from getting trapped in plastic nets

Belgium

Leadership looks like... cleaning up the oceans by 2040

Boyan Slat went diving in Greece aged 16 and saw more plastic bags than fish. Instead of wringing his hands he went on to set up a not-for-profit that aims to rid the oceans of 90% of their plastic by 2040. And he is well on his way to achieving this.