France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners

France’s hunger for frogs’ legs is “destructive to nature” and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets have warned.…

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‘They’re drowning us in regulations’: how Europe’s furious farmers took on Brussels and won

On the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, a green, red and blue stream of New Holland, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Fendt and…

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France is Europe’s biggest supporter of ‘carbon bomb’ projects, data shows

France is Europe’s biggest supporter of “carbon bomb” extraction projects that hold enough fossil fuels to pump out more than a gigaton of CO2 each,…

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UK must offer businesses certainty over green energy, says boss of FTSE 100 firm

The UK risks seeing its manufacturing sector fall behind rival economies if the government does not offer certainty over policies on shifting to green energy,…

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Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius

When the blast from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius reached Herculaneum in AD79, it burned hundreds of ancient scrolls to a crisp in the library…

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How Germany, France and Italy compare on net zero emission targets

Germany, France and Italy have pledged to hit net zero emissions around the middle of the century in a bid to stop weather from growing…

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Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air

Europe is facing a “severe public health crisis”, with almost everyone across the continent living in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution, an investigation…

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First cat in space: how a Parisian stray called Félicette was blasted far from Earth

In a few weeks, space scientists will celebrate a remarkable event – the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first cat into space, an…

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