World news about “Environmental protection” published by euronews.
EU to look in detail at pros and cons of fracking The European Union is to look more closely at hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – and the environmental concerns surrounding the practice, according to the… 20/05/2013
Astrakhan: Fishing on the Volga This week, Russian Life takes you to the Volga Delta near Astrakhan, where Europe’s largest river flows into the Caspian Sea. This unique environment makes… 13/05/2013
Manage your mussels Mussel farming is one of Europe’s major shellfish industries, with total net production averaging around 500,000 tonnes per year, and with the potential for… 29/04/2013
British campaigners call for ban on bee harming pesticides A busy group of bee campaigners were joined by British fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hamnett outside the houses of parliament on… 27/04/2013
Call for Arctic protection A trek to the North Pole organised by Greenpeace has ended with four young explorers including American actor Ezra Miller planting a flag on the seabed. It… 15/04/2013
Salgado’s epic photo project debuts in London Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado embarked on his latest project – the epic and almost biblical in its scale Genesis in 2004. For eight years he… 15/04/2013
Romanian anger at Chevron shale gas plans Thousands of Romanians across the country have protested against Chevron’s plans to explore for shale gas. The U.S. oil and gas giant wants to begin… 05/04/2013
UV-LEDs lower cost of water purification New technology for water purification has been developed based on UV-LED and photocatalysis. The water purification device is the work of a research… 01/04/2013
Fish stock dilemma In this edition of I talk EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki answers your questions. “Hello I am Chris Burns and welcome to … 28/03/2013
Lagoons under the microscope At the Ria de Aveiro Lagoon in Portugal the day starts early for European scientists as they set out to gather samples. The lagoon offers a rich but fragile… 25/03/2013
Millions switch off the lights for ‘Earth Hour’ – nocomment Thousands of cities all over the world plunged into darkness on Saturday evening to mark Earth Hour, an event to raise climate change awareness which was… 24/03/2013
Eco-labels: a smart strategy In this edition of Business Planet, we visit the French city of Poitiers to take a closer look at the European Ecolabel. For consumers, the label is a… 22/03/2013
‘Africa needs inclusive growth’ – head of African Development BankSpeaking at the Climate Parliament assembly in Brussels, the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, has called for further investment in… 21/03/2013
China chases the dream China’s new leaders are promising not a great leap forward, but a renaissance for the people and better ties with the US. Incoming President Xi Jinping… 17/03/2013
Educating the green guardians of the future With climate change, deforestation and ever increasing threats to wildlife, environmental activists believe much more still needs to be done to protect our… 15/03/2013
Mopping up oil spills In Slovenia scientists are testing a new material which is thought to be able to absorb more than 99% of oil spilled on the water. The material they are… 14/03/2013
‘Airpocalypse’ smog in China – nocomment Beijing has been enveloped by thick smog and a sandstorm. Among the places covered with dust was Tiananmen Square, where the National People’s Congress (NPC)… 01/03/2013
Whaling blame game: accusations fly over collision in Antarctic Environmental campaigners Sea Shepherd Australia say a collision on February 25 in Antarctic waters, between two vessels from a Japanese whaling fleet and one… 26/02/2013
Green light for green clusters Everyone has heard of business clusters, where interconnected companies join forces in order to boost performance. The Austrian town of Graz is an example… 08/02/2013
China on red alert over pollution A 40-car pile-up on a Chinese motorway, caused in part by bad visibility in the smog pointed to growing political strain. It was one of the consequences of… 31/01/2013
Cooking up natural plastics It’s time for a bit of cooking at a research Institute in Brindisi, Southern Italy. The recipe is simple: a splashing of natural textiles, a good dose of… 28/01/2013
Still many risks for the global economy On the third day of the World Economic Forum we look at the different economic outlooks for different parts of the world. While Europe and the US struggle… 25/01/2013
New technology for old houses Traditional wooden farmhouses like those in Appensell, are iconically Swiss, but every year around 30 of them are demolished because it is so difficult to… 24/01/2013
Vitoria-Gasteiz is Spain’s green pioneer In the north of Spain, there is a wetland that might seem like many others. Except these lakes that are dominated by bizarre structures have been created from… 18/12/2012
Blog: the green attitude of the Basque capitalVitoria-Gasteiz. I might well have lived in Spain, although it was on the other side of the country in Seville, which hadn’t had its Expo and its development… 18/12/2012
Cyprus’s race for liquid gold The second harvest of the year is being prepared in potato fields in Xylophagou, a speciality of the region in the south of Cyprus. But water from the… 14/12/2012
Protecting the environment can be profitable As technology progresses, consumer habits change. Like many other electrical appliances, old television sets have become obsolete. This week, Business… 14/12/2012
Overfishing: can the EU influence change? The darkest warnings are becoming reality: the world’s fish stocks are collapsing. Many blame the so-called “supertrawlers” supported by public money. … 13/12/2012
British Antarctic team to search for new life in sub-glacial lake British scientists are due to begin drilling the ice sheet of Antarctica to reach a previously hidden lake. They hope a deep probe of Lake Ellsworth will… 12/12/2012
Follow the Innovation Road The latest environmental technologies came under the spotlight at the Pollutec exhibition in France. A special section called Innovation Road was devoted to… 04/12/2012
Pollutec, shopwindow for a cleaner world At the recent Pollutec exhibition in Lyon well over 2,000 individuals and companies from all over the world showed off the latest technology for a cleaner… 03/12/2012
Lime against batons in French protestA French riot gendarme is pictured covered with lime amid clashes with protesters refusing to evacuate land that will become a new airport in… 23/11/2012
Chasing Ice Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski’s new documentary “Chasing Ice” shows the edge of the massive Ilulissat glacier in Greenland collapsing — or “calving” — and violently… 20/11/2012
EU Commission suspends airline carbon emissions law The EU Commission has frozen their law that airlines flying into and out of Europe must pay for their carbon emissions. The decision to scrap the … 12/11/2012
Greenpeace cautions Brussels over new GM crops Greenpeace has delivered a warning to Brussels on the use of new GM crops. The organisation gathered outside the European Commission to oppose the… 07/11/2012
Protecting the Giant Mussels of the Italian coast The operation to remove the wreckage of the Costa Concordia from the Italian coastline has faced many challenges but one in particular has caught the… 06/11/2012
Fracking in Europe Wojciech Swieton has travelled all over the world as a drilling engineer. He started his search for natural gas in his native Poland, then moved to… 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Piotr Grzegorz Wozniak, junior minister for shale gas at the Environment Ministry of Poland Complete interview in English with junior minister for shale gas at the Environment Ministry of Poland, Piotr Grzegorz Wozniak. 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Jakub Gogolewski, coordinator for CEE Bankwatch Network Poland Complete interview in English with coordinator for CEE Bankwatch Network Poland, Jakub Gogolewski. 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Pawel Poprawa, Energy Studies Institute Pawel Poprawa works for the Warsaw-based Energy Studies Institute and lobbies in favour of shale gas exploration in Poland 02/11/2012
Danube Delta in danger – say activists Romanian environmentalists are stepping up their efforts to protect the Danube Delta reserve. It is the largest European wetland and reed bed, with unique… 24/10/2012
Green means business Sarah Smith is part of a new generation of environmentally-aware entrepreneurs. Her drive to suceed has taken her to Paris where she will pitch her idea to a… 22/10/2012
Prestige infamy relived The Prestige was just another anonymous ship decaying on the high seas until one final storm found it in the world’s headlines. The Liberian single hull… 16/10/2012
Gold Rush In Romania This mountain contains Europe’s biggest gold deposits. With the economic crisis, the price of gold is rocketing and there are plans to open new gold mines in… 12/10/2012
Qiantang river tidal bore attracts tourists and daredevils – nocomment The roaring Qiantang large tidal bore reached eastern China’s Hangzhou, in Zhejiang Province, on Wednesday, forming its famous turning-back wave. The event… 04/10/2012
Venezuela reaches for new tourism heights The highest peaks in Venezuela are at the centre of an ambitious re-building programme. As part of an effort to reconstruct the country’s tourism industry it… 25/09/2012
Green light for eco-industries More than three million people across the EU now work in eco-industries, producing nature-friendly goods and services. It is an increasingly competitive… 19/09/2012
How plastic bottles can heat your home Some 13 billion plastic bottles are thrown away in the UK alone each year and, as a bottle takes around 700 years to break down, they will be there for some… 17/09/2012
Greenpeace protest Gazprom Arctic offshore drilling – nocomment Activists from the international environmental organisation Greenpeace, some dressed up as bears, staged a protest near Russian energy giant Gazprom’s… 06/09/2012
Manila protest against dolphin hunting – nocomment Animal welfare groups in Manila protested outside the Japanese embassy to demand the end of dolphin hunting in Japan. 01/09/2012
Cambodia’s endangered animals Sun bears – the world’s smallest species of bear, are at risk of extinction with habitat loss and illegal hunting to blame. Organisation “Free the Bears”… 27/08/2012
Whale shark found dead on Indonesian beachA dead whale shark of 13 meter was stranded on the Pandansimo beach in Bantula in Indonesia. August 2, 2012. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo. 02/08/2012
Eco-crime in EU booming, report says Mafia groups are making billions from environmental crime, new research has found. Dumping toxic waste, illegal logging and trafficking of endangered species… 12/07/2012
Maps: Colouring in the Black Sea What do microscopic molecules and huge computer grids have in common? They both build up giant scientific databases of ecosystems around the World. But it is… 11/07/2012
Green groups slam Commission on environment President Jose Manual Barroso, European Commission chief, has reached the half way stage of his second term of office. Along with Europe’s debt crisis… 06/07/2012
Rio protesters denounce the “Greed economy”People protest against the current economic system at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro June 21, 2012. The… 22/06/2012
Moscow along the river In the final episode of our journey around Russia, euronews takes a trip through the capital along the Moskva river. Moscow was named after the river in… 11/06/2012
Swimming in polluted waterA man swims in the polluted waters of a pond next to his buffalo on World Environment Day on the outskirts of Jammu. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta 07/06/2012
Spain breaks ‘blue flag’ beach record Clouds may have been looming over Spain’s economy but according to Blue Flag, the outlook for its beaches is bright. Spain beat stiff competition from beach… 06/06/2012
Solar plane completes first intercontinental flight A solar energy plane has landed in Morocco completing the world’s first intercontinental flight powered by the sun. The Solar Impulse took off from Madrid in… 06/06/2012
Brussels abuzz over bee decline Brussels and bees – two words you don’t always hear together, but on World Environment Day the future of our furry friends is of increasing concern to… 05/06/2012
Samsø: where renewable energy rules the roost The tiny, Danish island Samsø, is garnering a rather big reputation as a leading ‘sustainable energy island’. In 1997 the Danish Energy Agency gave it the… 05/06/2012
World Environment Day in KathmanduKathmandu, Nepal. A woman looks for recyclable materials in a dump site located along the banks of the polluted Bagmati River. June 5 marks World Environment… 05/06/2012
Yeosu Expo, sustaining ocean life South Korea has been celebrating the living oceans and coastlines. Yeosu Expo 2012 with its village of pavilions shows the country’s determination to raise… 14/05/2012
MEPs told to change plastic bottle habit The art of politics has never been easy, but in Brussels it seems to be very thirsty work. That is because last year the European Parliament used over a… 10/05/2012
Scientist study the ocean Global warming is having a serious impact on the earth’s water cycle. The water cycle is the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of… 10/05/2012
Battery birds’ nests The town of Ranong in Thailand is undergoing a construction boom, but the new homes are for birds, not people. And not just any old birds; they are for the… 07/05/2012
Air cleaning for the Olympics With less than 100 days to go before the Olympics kick off in London, pollution is a major preoccupation. Transport for London uses a system for monitoring… 03/05/2012
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spews ashThe Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of ash and steam high into the air, near the town of Santiago Xalizintla, on the outskirts of Puebla, Mexico… 03/05/2012
New life for old metal mines The European Union imports huge amounts of metal. Yet buried deep in Europe’s bowels is a treasure trove of copper, zinc and other precious… 02/05/2012
Expo 2012 aims to boost tourism in Yeosu The Vox Maris is the loudest pipe organ as certified by the Guinness of World Records and it was heard across Yeosu in South Korea as it prepared to welcome… 16/04/2012
Fight to make OK coral The idyllic view of coral in Guadeloupe is a myriad of colours playing host to exotic tropical fish. Just a few hundred metres away, though, it is a… 11/04/2012
Hanami begins in Tokyo – nocomment Tokyo’s Ueno Park is full of bloom and residents make a break under cherry trees marking with the past after a year of crisis. 06/04/2012
Stricken cargo ship breaks up on reef off New ZealandThe bow section of the stricken container ship Rena remains above water about 14 nautical miles from Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island… 04/04/2012
Exploring the Vinciguerra glacierThe Vinciguerra glacier is seen in the distance in the Valle de Andorra, near the southern-most Argentine city of Ushuaia in the Patagonian province of Tierra… 02/04/2012
Lights go off for Earth Hour – nocomment Sydney turns off the lights on the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge as Earth Hour 2012 begins its journey around the globe. 01/04/2012
Earth Hour in ChileChilean volunteers hold up candles during Earth Hour in Valparaiso city. Lights started going off around the world on Saturday 31st March in a show of support… 01/04/2012
New life for the oldBreathing new life into the old, regenerating scrap and leading and teaching people to look at new ways of using waste. Those are some of the ideas behind… 27/03/2012
Shale gas: fracking the Earth? In this edition of U-talk, Georgi, from Bulgaria, asks: “Taking into account that in France, Ireland and Bulgaria the extraction of shale gas has been… 23/03/2012
Smart irrigation bears fruit A new irrigation system – Waterbee – is set to reduce costs and save water. John O’Flaherty, the project coordinator for Waterbee, explained: “We’ve… 14/03/2012
Campaigners bid to save Mediterranean wetlands Around half of the wetlands across the Mediterranean basin have been lost over the past century, say environmental campaigners. Recently, some 350… 29/02/2012
Microwaves blast dangers of asbestos Ryszard Parosa, Supervising Board President at ATON-HT SA explained: “We have developed a new technology for the treatment of materials that contain… 15/02/2012
Mongolia: Another world far, far awayAs a child I remember some places were out of reach: places of mystery, places where great and dreadful deeds occurred, where dragons roamed and witches… 08/02/2012
Ulaanbaatar: Mongolia’s capital under pressure Mongolia is the most sparsely populated independent country on the planet, vast unspoiled steppes stretch as far as the eye can see. But, the country is… 08/02/2012
Rarely seen tribe pictured in PeruMembers of the Mashco-Piro tribe observe an expedition of the Spanish Geographical Society in the Amazon basin of south-eastern Peru. Survival International… 01/02/2012
Extinction of species accelerating Scientists are calling it The Sixth Mass Extinction; species are dying off faster than at any time since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. It is… 31/01/2012
Baby pandas in China – nocomment Twelve six-month-old panda cubs joined Lunar New Year celebrations at the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base in Sichuan Province, southwest China. 27/01/2012
Northern Lights over Norway – nocomment The skies over northern Europe have been illuminated with an intense display of the northern lights after massive solar storms showered the Earth with… 27/01/2012
Volunteers clear rubbish along Algiers beachThis operation to clean up Tamenfoust beach, 20 km east of Algiers, was launched through Facebook. Volunteers were recruited to remove heaps of rubbish that… 21/01/2012
French sound alpine glacier alarm Around the globe, in all latitudes, at all altitudes, glaciers are receding and disappearing at a rapid pace. At a speed that often exceeds even the most… 17/01/2012
Kashmir Valley under snow – nocomment Heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures in the Kashmir Valley have forced the critically endangered Kashmiri stag to make a downhill journey from the high… 13/01/2012
Logging puts Tasmanian eagles at risk In the Australian state of Tasmania, the native eagles are under threat because intensive logging is destroying their natural habitat. 10/01/2012
Giant lizard breeding programme halts species’ decline It was once thought that the Hierro giant lizard had gone the way of the dodo. The reptile, which can grow to more than half a metre in length, appeared to… 09/01/2012
Elephant football in Nepal – nocomment Nepal’s Chitwan National Park hosted a football match with a difference, as teams of elephants took to the field for a giant kickabout. 28/12/2011
Arguments run hot and cold over climate change At the recent climate talks in Durban the alarm was sounded. A stark warning went out that unless the World acts quickly to slash greenhouse gasses it faces a… 22/12/2011
South Korea gears up for World Expo The South Korean coastal city of Yeosu is the venue for the next World Expo between May and August of 2012. Under construction is a modern village of… 19/12/2011
Bye bye Kyoto? With UN-backed climate change talks in Durban due to end on Friday, the world looks as divided as ever over whether the Kyoto Protocol has a… 07/12/2011
Belgium: car executives face protest at key Brussels lobby meeting – nocomment Greenpeace campaigners parked a truck in front of the building where chief executives of Europe’s biggest car companies were due to meet, blocking the main… 03/12/2011
Santiago De Chile Filmed by Jacqueline Wolf in Santiago De Chile 01/12/2011
Threatened seahorses get breeding boost Thousands of seahorses are being released into the Mediterranean as part of a breeding programme in the south of France to restock the sea with the tiny… 30/11/2011
