17.01.202617.01.2026 Europe’s crop droughts to get worse even as rain increases Europe and western North America will experience more frequent and severe crop droughts as the planet [...]
17.01.202617.01.2026 Forests under climate stress – Why trees are growing less despite an early start Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing [...]
15.01.202615.01.2026 Climate change presses on Devastating wildfires and intense thunderstorms exacerbate losses for insurers Natural disaster figures for 2025 Costliest claims [...]
14.01.2026 Microplastics detected in rural woodland Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural areas in greater quantities than in cities, researchers say. [...]
13.01.2026 Climate Variability Emerges as Both Risk and Opportunity for the Global Energy Transition WMO–IRENA 2024 Year in Review highlights growing impacts of climate extremes on clean power systems. Climate [...]
12.12.202512.12.2025 UN Report: Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, fewer deaths, less poverty Environmental degradation claiming millions of lives, costing trillions annually. Business-as-usual will lead to even bigger impacts, [...]
09.12.202509.12.2025 Municipal waste: progress on reuse and recycling too slow Every person in the EU generates an average of over 500 kg of waste per year. [...]
01.12.202501.12.2025 Air quality improving, but just over 180,000 deaths still attributable to air pollution in EU Just over 180,000 deaths in the European Union were attributable to exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations above World [...]
28.11.202528.11.2025 What Our Meadows Reveal About the Future Meadows once teeming with buzzing insects and colorful plants are quietly losing their diversity. But how [...]
27.11.202527.11.2025 Study shows: Migratory birds almost completely avoid wind turbines A new study by the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) confirms that migratory birds almost [...]
22.11.202522.11.2025 Sea level rise threatens North Sea coast New Hereon study shows: Too little sand deposition in the German Wadden Sea. The Wadden Sea [...]
22.11.202522.11.2025 Balkan nature on the line: Environmental compliance lags in EU accession drive Western Balkan candidates are still failing to meet EU nature and biodiversity safeguards. European Commission’s Enlargement [...]
14.11.202513.11.2025 How Stressors Shape Life in Rivers Freshwater ecosystems are losing species faster than any other ecosystem under the influence of many simultaneous [...]
12.11.202512.11.2025 Climate Risk Index: ranking shows how extreme weather events hit many poor countries particularly hard New edition of Climate Risk Index by Germanwatch: Dominica, Myanmar, and Honduras most affected by extreme [...]
11.11.202511.11.2025 Climate change particularly pronounced in Switzerland Switzerland will become drier and hotter, experience less snow and face heavier rainfall in the future. [...]
10.11.202510.11.2025 UNHCR report reveals extreme weather driving repeated displacement among conflict-affected communities Millions of refugees, people forced to flee, and their hosts are trapped in an increasingly vicious [...]