Tag: environment

Berlin (AFP) - Germany on Monday reintroduced electric car subsidies as it seeks to accelerate the transition to less polluting ...

Sao Paulo (AFP) - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt ...

Paris (France) (AFP) - A French ban on the production and sale of cosmetics and most clothing containing polluting and ...

Paris (France) (AFP) - The French government on Tuesday postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to ...

Geneva (AFP) - A Swiss court has decided to hear a landmark climate case pitting residents of a tiny Indonesian ...

Oslo (AFP) - Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licences to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four ...

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) - Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday it had arrested the Chinese CEO of a gold mining firm accused of ...

Paris (AFP) - The Greenpeace environment group said Sunday that France was sending reprocessed uranium to Russia for treatment so ...

London (AFP) - A British court ruled Friday that Australian mining giant BHP is liable for one of Brazil's worst ...

Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - European lawmakers are expected on Thursday to back weakening a set of EU environmental and human ...