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The first onshore Carbon Dioxide Removal project in the European Union was announced on Monday between carbon storage start-ups RepAir Carbon and C-Questra. The partnership will see the bloc’s first onshore Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACS) in France and could help Europe achieve its climate ambitions by removing carbon from the atmosphere. The Dutch carbon storage start-up C-Questra announced the partnership with the American carbon removal company RepAir Carbon, meaning carbon will be captured and stored. Current DAC solutions consume a lot of energy and can emit more CO2 than they captu...
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Among corporate America's most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St Scholastica have taken on the likes of Google, Target and Citigroup - calling on major companies to do everything from AI oversight to measuring pesticides to respecting the rights of Indigenous people. "Some of these companies, they just really hate us," said Sister Barbara McCracken, who leads the nuns' corporate responsibility program. "Because we're small, we're just like a little fly in the ointment trying to irritate th...
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Since the start of June, Brussels has been the first city in Europe to make a complete transition to electric vehicles away from horse-drawn carriages for city tours. Thibault Danthine launched his project this summer with two new vehicles after winning a call for funding from the city of Brussels in 2022. Danthine, as city carriage operator, told Euronews that the transition was inspired in part by the ethical dilemmas of horse-drawn carriages. "There were logistical and human resources issues. It was getting harder and harder to find drivers. And ethics are changing, the relationship with an...
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Operating for three years, the Fuerst Wiacek brewery in the German capital makes mostly high-end craft beer and is known for its high-quality IPAs and traditional German beers. Once a week, a local Berlin farmer drives his tractor to the brewery and picks up the spent grain used to brew the supply. "The cows really enjoy it and are already waiting," farmer Christoph Brundke told Euronews. Recycling spent grain isn't the only way the brewery tries to be environmentally friendly. "We attempt to source a significant amount of our power from solar," said the head of sales, George Shumay. "It doesn...
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Katy Perry is not having a great summer. After the disastrous rollout of her single ‘Woman’s World’ and its muddled satirical credentials feeling like a regressive pseudo-empowerment anthem, whose faux-feminist message rings false at every turn, there are now legal woes to deal with. The US pop star is reportedly under investigation in Spain over potential environmental damage that took place on the shoot for the video of her new single ‘Lifetimes’. The new song is the second track to be shared from Perry’s forthcoming sixth album, ‘143’, and the filming of its video on Spain’s Balearic Island...
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Protesters are blocking the construction of a small hydroelectric plant in Croatia that they say threatens one of the country’s most unique and sacred rivers. The source of the Una River is one of the deepest karstic springs - where water flows up from conduits in the bedrock - on Earth. Running from Croatia into Bosnia, it has cultural significance as a symbol of unity and shared heritage between the two countries. The river is also home to 17 threatened species and campaigners say the construction work puts this protected waterway at risk of serious environmental damage downstream. The entir...
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For several days, fish have been dying in the Orbetello lagoon in Tuscany. Some attribute this to a lack of oxygen in the water, potentially caused by Valonia algae, or even due to chemical levels that are out of control.
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A person has died and some 200,000 households have been left without electricity in Lithuania and neighbouring Latvia as strong storm winds and heavy rain pounded the Baltic nations overnight. A 50-year-old woman was killed in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, by a falling tree on Monday, local authorities said. Fire and rescue officials in both countries have received hundreds of emergency calls for fallen trees, damaged cars and flooded roads and fields. In Lithuania, authorities warned people to travel only in urgent situations as the storm was bringing more severe winds and catastrophic lev...
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From January to mid-July, Slovakian authorities and hunters alike killed more than three dozen bears, leading to uproar among ecologists and activists. The authorities shot 30 so-called "problematic" bears, and hunters were allowed to hunt down another 11, Milan Boroš, the general director of Slovakia's State Nature Conservancy office, has announced. Last year, a series of attacks, some of them deadly, led to calls to reassess the protected status of bears in Slovakia and more widely across Central and Eastern Europe. Now, Slovakia’s far-right environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, wants to ensur...
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MEPs have elected Italian social democrat Antonio Decaro as chair of the European Parliament’s influential committee on environment, public health and food safety (ENVI), while the far-right was denied a vice-chair position by a member of the new Hungarian opposition. Decaro, mayor of the Italian port city of Bari for ten years before being elected as an MEP on 9 June, stood unopposed following back-room horse trading that saw the main political groups divvy up committee chairs between themselves in proportion to the size of their groups. The far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) group was denie...
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