Leaders of Poland, Denmark, and Norway officially launched the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline as a key step on the way for Poland and the whole of Europe to cut energy dependency on Russia.

Explosions in the Baltic Sea are thought to be linked to the sudden appearance of leaks in the controversial Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Political groups in the European Parliament announced a deal on Tuesday (27 September) that will see the equivalent of €20 billion taken from the EU carbon market in a bid to finance the move away from Russian fossil fuels and lower consumer energy bills.

At first, the insurance companies didn’t know what had hit them.

Switzerland has recorded the worst snow melt rate since monitoring began over a century ago.

EU member states have called for a new impact assessment on the European Commission’s proposal to slash the use and risk of pesticides, citing concerns over food security and resilience, but the EU executive has stood firm in its convictions.

A new green technology project is coming to Egypt’s Red Sea resort city Sharm el-Sheikh ahead of the UN Convention on Climate Change, COP27.

Europe was racing on Tuesday (27 September) to investigate possible sabotage behind sudden and unexplained leaks in two Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea, infrastructure at the heart of an energy crisis since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Earlier Nord Stream AG announced that the harm that occurred on the same day simultaneously on three lines of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipelines was unprecedented, and it is not yet possible to estimate the recovery time frame.