Polish geographer Dr Iwona Zwierzchowska is on a mission to develop green spaces in the city of Poznań with the help of EU funding and 30 partners across Europe and beyond.
German marine biologist Dr Tim Kiessling is on a mission to discover the true scale of plastic pollution in…
By involving local communities, EU-funded researchers aim to restore marine ecosystems and turn citizens into…
Urban Wünsch never expected product labelling to be the hardest part of a seven-day voyage across the North Sea.
A growing number of environmentally minded people are putting their money where their mouths are and directly investing in projects such as solar and wind farms, thanks to a rise in community-based…
Positive energy homes may sound like something out of a hippy commune, but these days the term has a more practical meaning.
Vegetables rejected by European shops for the way they look are being used as dinner ingredients in Kenya while researchers are following Scandinavian shoppers around supermarkets, all in a bid to…
An experimental project connecting renewable energy researchers in the EU with colleagues in Morocco and Tunisia could help pave the way for a market in renewable energy and energy efficiency that…
Europe’s streets full of grand old buildings bring tourists from around the globe, yet it isn’t the ornate 19th-century brick buildings that are the least energy efficient, but rather the reinforced…
Technology alone is not enough to reduce air pollution in Europe, we all have to change our habits and behaviour if we are to improve air quality and reduce health problems, say scientists who are…
Moss-covered boards that absorb city pollution and warehouses where fish and LED-lit lettuce grow side-by-side are helping to reshape the way that urban Europeans live their lives.
Europe needs a climate research plan as focused as the US Apollo space programme that took astronauts to the moon, according to Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder of the Potsdam Institute…
Scientists are preparing a first-of-a-kind sub-sea experiment in which they will deliberately pump carbon dioxide into the ocean floor and let it seep back up into the sea.