Europe’s insatiable appetite for frogs’ legs could drive them to extinction
European demand for frog legs could drive the amphibians to “irreversible extinction,” a new study has warned. Between 2010 and 2019, European Union countries imported
Will fewer flights be available in future? Stark new report lays out reality of decarbonising travel
The global availability of long haul flights should be capped to meet climate goals, a new report urges. UK non-profit the Travel Foundation has mapped
‘Pain has turned to anger’: Greek rail workers strike over conditions after deadly train crash
Greek rail workers are striking as anger grows over a deadly rail crash that killed at least 46 people late on Tuesday. The head-on-crash –
Paris, Amsterdam, Munich: The best art exhibitions accessible by train in 2023
Fancy catching the largest ever Vermeer exhibition? How about an immersive experience that fuses anime, video games and Buddhism? 2023 is shaping up to be
Asylum seekers sleeping rough in Brussels for months, as the city’s migrant crisis grows
Brussels has a problem. A steadily growing asylum-seeker crisis is leaving people in the streets living in makeshift tents for months on end, as they
‘Devastating’: One in four EU children at risk of poverty, says NGO
The number of children driven to the brink of poverty in the European Union grew by 200,000 in 2021 to reach 19.6 million, according to
EU watchdog to review Commission foreign trips amid call for increased transparency
The European Union’s watchdog has asked the Commission to provide details on business trips senior staff members have made since 2021 that were partly paid
Beavers are returning to London – and they might protect a local train station from flooding
Beavers will return to London for the first time in 400 years – and they could stop flooding at a local train station. Widely hunted
Watch the hunt for an elusive grey wolf once thought to be extinct in France
Every year, officers from France’s Office for Biodiversity (OFB) organise a day of tracking the European grey wolf in Aubrac, in the country’s Massif Central.
‘Foreign agents’: Inside the Russian climate movement taking the government to court
Aleksandra Koroleva is the head of one of Russia’s oldest environmental groups, Ecodefense! Created in 1989, the group has had “more than enough time to