European demand for frog legs could drive the amphibians to “irreversible extinction,” a new study has warned. Between 2010 and 2019, European Union countries imported 40.7 million kilograms of the legs – equivalent to roughly…

The global availability of long haul flights should be capped to meet climate goals, a new report urges. UK non-profit the Travel Foundation has mapped out future scenarios comparing business-as-usual with emissions-cutting changes in the…

Greek rail workers are striking as anger grows over a deadly rail crash that killed at least 46 people late on Tuesday. The head-on-crash – which saw a passenger train and freight carrier collide on…

Fancy catching the largest ever Vermeer exhibition? How about an immersive experience that fuses anime, video games and Buddhism? 2023 is shaping up to be another bumper year for art exhibitions in Europe. There’s never…

Brussels has a problem. A steadily growing asylum-seeker crisis is leaving people in the streets living in makeshift tents for months on end, as they wait to register within Belgium’s overburdened immigration system. As many…

The number of children driven to the brink of poverty in the European Union grew by 200,000 in 2021 to reach 19.6 million, according to Save the Children. A report by the NGO released on…

The European Union’s watchdog has asked the Commission to provide details on business trips senior staff members have made since 2021 that were partly paid for by third parties as Brussels continues to reel from…

Every year, officers from France’s Office for Biodiversity (OFB) organise a day of tracking the European grey wolf in Aubrac, in the country’s Massif Central. The species was once widespread across the French countryside. By…

Beavers will return to London for the first time in 400 years – and they could stop flooding at a local train station. Widely hunted for their fur and meat, beavers went extinct in England…

Aleksandra Koroleva is the head of one of Russia’s oldest environmental groups, Ecodefense! Created in 1989, the group has had “more than enough time to anger the Russian state,” she says. In 2003, the organisation…