How should people warm their homes in the future? Whether climate protection, dependency on the previous supplier Russia or rising prices - Germany has agreed to say goodbye to natural gas in the future. The infrastructure is enormous, the natural gas network in the country is an incredible 511,000 kilometers long, mostly underground. The question of whether these pipes should be used to conduct other gases such as biomethane or hydrogen and thus heat apartments and houses is becoming increasingly...
How should people warm their homes in the future? Whether climate protection, dependency on the previous supplier Russia or rising prices - Germany has agreed to say goodbye to natural gas in the future. The infrastructure is enormous, the natural gas network in the country is an incredible 511,000 kilometers long, mostly underground. The question of whether these pipes should be used to conduct other gases such as biomethane or hydrogen and thus heat apartments and houses is becoming increasingly...
study Climate and environmental changes lead to species change in the mudflats Birds fly over the mud flats in front of Dangast beach. photo © Sina Schuldt/dpa Mussels, snails or worms: According to a study, some animals are significantly less common in the Wadden Sea than they were 40 years ago. Researchers on the mainland see the reasons for this. According to a study, the occurrence of certain animals such as snails, mussels, crabs and worms in the Wadden Sea...
She began to act barely seven years ago and is already a reference figure in the matter. As the country prepares for another day of strikes on Tuesday and the movement seems to be hardening against pension reform, the young environmental activist Lena Lazare recalls that social justice and ecology are undeniably linked. “We know very well that during these social movements, forms of solidarity are created,” she assures us facing the camera of 20 minutes. Like her, many environmental...
For the first time in a war, the consequences for nature are discussed. Kateryna Polianska collects evidence of Russian war crimes on the environment. What she experiences there, she has it star told. Nature is one of the silent victims of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. It is difficult to quantify the damage - and anything but harmless. The Ukrainian Ministry of Environment has set up a hotline for citizens to report environmental damage. The extent of the...
environmental Protection Agreement on the protection of the high seas A humpback whale leaps out of the water off the coast of Ecuador. The countries of the world have been struggling for an agreement to protect the world's oceans. There was an agreement in New York. photo © Jose Jacome/epa efe/dpa For more than a decade, the countries of the world have been struggling to reach an agreement to protect the world's oceans. Now the UN is making a breakthrough....
Germany: outcry after an action by environmental activists near the BundestagLe Figaro“Our constitution has been stained”: a demonstration for the climate creates controversy in GermanyThe eveningOutcry in Germany after climate activists spray black liquid on monument near Bundestag7out7Outcry after action by German climate activists near BundestagThe PressSee full coverage on Google Newssource site
More than 260 species of migratory birds have been recorded there. This wetland area nicknamed "the little Camargue" is classified "Natura 2000". It has even been targeted since 2019 by a prefectural order for “biotope protection”, prohibiting any human and domestic animal presence. Between Nice and Saint-Laurent-du-Var (Alpes-Maritimes), the mouth of the Var is however being "ransacked" by diggers, denounces a collective of environmental associations.Since the fall, a project has been carried out on the right bank to "give back...
Helmut Steber can still remember it well. "When we converted the Eichethof to organic farming in the early 1990s, we did it in the spirit that organic is better for nature and the environment than conventional farming," says Steber and immediately qualifies: "Scientific studies But we didn't have any that clearly prove that." That's different today. At the beginning of the year, after many years of research, Professor Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen, who teaches organic farming and plant cultivation systems at the...
The German Environmental Aid has surprisingly withdrawn its lawsuit before the Bavarian Administrative Court (VGH) against the climate protection policy of the state government. This was announced by the lawyer for environmental aid (DUH), Remo Klinger, on Thursday at the end of a hearing that lasted several hours. The reason is purely legal considerations - in terms of content, environmental aid is sticking to its sharp criticism of Bavarian climate policy and is already threatening a new lawsuit in two...
