At least 30 animals died early New Year’s Day in a fire at a monkey house at a zoo in Krefeld, Germany, The New York Times reported. The Great Ape House had housed orangutans, chimpanzees, lowland gorillas, rodents, marmosets and birds before it burned down a little after midnight Wednesday. “Our worst fears have become […]
Germany said Saturday it would suspend aid to Brazil aimed at helping protect the Amazon forest in light of the stark increase in rainforest clearings since President Jair Bolsonaro took office. “The policy of the Brazilian government in the Amazon raises doubts as to whether a consistent reduction of deforestation rates is still being pursued,” […]
German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has said she plans to introduce a law to ban the use of plastic bags. “My ministry will get a plastic bag ban on its way,” the Social Democrat said in Berlin on Sunday, without providing a timeline. She said the goal was to “get out of the throwaway society […]
Police have cleared 250 climate activists who stayed overnight at the Garzweiler brown coal mine in western Germany, officials said Sunday. However, some protesters were still blocking nearby train tracks that usually serve as a coal transport route from one of Germany’s biggest open-pit mines, near the cities of Düsseldorf and Cologne. Spokeswoman Kathrin Henneberger […]
In an effort to fight climate change, Germany announced plans to quit coal mining and burning by 2038. All 84 of the country’s coal-fired power plants will be shut down over the 19-year time frame, a government-appointed commission announced Saturday, according to The Los Angeles Times. It’s a significant move as nearly 40 percent of […]
By Common Dreams staff At least 80,000 people marched in a cold rain in Brussels Sunday in another massive protest demanding that the European Union take urgent and far-reaching action to address the world’s climate crisis. Sunday’s march was the fourth climate march in the past three weeks—each one significantly bigger than the last—as students […]
By Andrea Germanos Organizers said 35,000 people marched through the streets of the German capital on Saturday to say they’re “fed up” with industrial agriculture and call for a transformation to a system that instead supports the welfare of the environment, animals and rural farmers. Was für ein Bild! Wir sind 35.000! Es ist überwältigend, […]
By Sharon Kelly 2018 is set to rank as the fourth warmest year on record—and the fourth year in a row reflecting a full degree Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) temperature rise from the late 1800s, climate scientists say. This was the year that introduced us to fire tornadoes, bomb cyclones and in Death Valley, a five-day […]
By Andy Rowell Over the last week, the German Police have deployed thousands of officers, backed up by water cannons and armored vehicles, to evict hundreds of climate activists trying to defend the last remnants of an ancient forest in Germany from being destroyed by RWE, which wants to expand the biggest open coal mine […]
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