The UK government is providing a €700m (£600m) guarantee for the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to build the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years…
View More UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plantTag: Belgium
Children living near green spaces ‘have stronger bones’
Children with more green space near their homes have significantly stronger bones, a study has found, potentially leading to lifelong health benefits. Scientists found that…
View More Children living near green spaces ‘have stronger bones’‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisis
Europe’s most severe drought in decades is hitting homes, factories, farmers and freight across the continent, as experts warn drier winters and searing summers fuelled…
View More ‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisisMystery of Waterloo’s dead soldiers to be re-examined by academics
It was an epic battle that has been commemorated in words, poetry and even a legendary Abba song, but 207 years to the day after…
View More Mystery of Waterloo’s dead soldiers to be re-examined by academicsDeluge of dog pee and poo harming nature reserves, study suggests
Dog faeces and urine are being deposited in nature reserves in such quantities that it is likely to be damaging wildlife, according to a new…
View More Deluge of dog pee and poo harming nature reserves, study suggestsClimate crisis made deadly German floods ‘up to nine times more likely’
The record-shattering rainfall that caused deadly flooding across Germany and Belgium in July was made up to nine times more likely by the climate crisis,…
View More Climate crisis made deadly German floods ‘up to nine times more likely’Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets
The idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the…
View More Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secretsThe chips are down: Belgium counts the cost of betting all on the potato
A humble frite with a dollop of mayonnaise is a revered thing in Belgium but, thanks to campaigners against a new mega-processing plant, the environmental…
View More The chips are down: Belgium counts the cost of betting all on the potato