EU agriculture ministers are pushing the European Commission to relax rules on new genomic techniques (NGTs), arguing this is needed to bolster the sector in the face of increasing droughts, climate change and yield losses.
As Germany desperately attempts to stave off a winter energy crisis, most recently seizing Rosneft refinery assets, a leak at a nuclear plant reported by the country’s Environment Ministry adds to the pressure.
The news that the German ailing energy giant Uniper may be nationalised has rallied the Finnish opposition, and the government is being criticised for surrendering to Germany without proper resistance.
Four environmental groups started legal action against the European Commission on Monday (19 September) after the EU executive passed a contentious law to include fossil gas into the EU’s list of sustainable investments.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently announced that three yacht ports will be established from the revenues of the Suez Canal to support the national economy.
A group of Palestinian women has recently showcased several products they manufactured through waste recycling that are safe for human health and the environment.
Chinese President Xi Jinping makes remarks while attending the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the International Conference Center in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 16, 2022.
The newest list of Top 500 Chinese enterprises, jointly unveiled by the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) and the China Enterprise Directors Association on September 6, showed the entrants staged remarkable growth in 2021 amid an increasingly complex international environment compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The operator of Germany’s Isar 2 nuclear power plant has informed the government of a leak at the site, the Environment Ministry announced on Monday.
The pyramids of Giza, erected some 4,500 years ago, represent one of the greatest feats in the history of engineering, and their construction has long raised a mix of interest, fascination and disbelief.