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Are wild boars in Germany too much of a match for farmers and even hunters that the German military must be brought in to deal with the porcine problem?
German hunting groups are dismissive of the idea, proposed by farmers. Sure, they like to shoot and eat the boars – they shot nearly 450,000 last year [...]
When I see old, but apparently perfectly functional refrigerators and other household appliances thrown away, left on the street or stacked in dumpsites, my gut reaction is to say ‘what a waste’.
This may be a naïve or simplistic response to the issues of waste and efficiency, however. Sure, most people are probably replacing their white [...]
According to legislation passed in 2002 by the Social Democratic-Green Party coalition, all nuclear power stations in Germany are to be decommissioned by 2022.
However, according to a recent television interview, current German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union plans to extend this deadline by another 10-15 years.
From a report in Deutsche Welle:
The chancellor, [...]
Illegally smuggled, abandoned and/or maltreated exotic pets get a second chance at life thanks to a unique animal hospital in Munich, Germany.
Germany’s largest reptile rescue home takes in crocodiles, iguanas, snakes, turtles and more, giving them veterinary care and a suitable living environment. Many are seized in customs while being smuggled into the country as [...]
Heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks in Germany, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. A total of 14 have died so far from the flooding and more are missing.
According to Australian broadsheet The Age the Neisse River, which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland before flowing into the Czech [...]
Poor bees. We steal their honey, enslave them in order to pollinate apple orchards and then have the audacity to go berserk if one of them lands in our Frappuccino.
Oh yeah, it also turns out we’re probably poisoning them with pesticides, causing their numbers to drop dramatically.
The decline of the European honeybee – known as [...]
According to representatives of both poor and rich nations, there has been no progress at the climate talks held in Bonn, Germany this past week.
In fact there has been the opposite: regression and pessimism concerning potential progress. The EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said she believes the negotiations have ‘gone backwards’.
From a BBC News report:
Unfortunately, [...]
If the unusually hot weather in Europe this summer is an environmental ‘cloud’ of bad news – forest fires in Russia, algal blooms in the Baltic, etc. – then an increase in capacity for renewable energy in Germany is the ‘silver lining’.
A new report by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy Systems Technology [...]
Record warm temperatures, agricultural fertilizers and calm waters have contributed to the growth of a huge mass of algae in the Baltic Sea.
The foul-smelling, Germany-sized (377,000 sq km) carpet of blue-green algae is hazardous for the marine environment because it creates dead zones by depriving plant life of oxygen. Human contact with algal blooms is [...]
Europe’s loss-making hard coal mines will be forced to close due to a new tightening of regulations regarding government subsidies.
Coal mines deemed uncompetitive will have their subsides diverted from production costs to social and environmental aid for their respective areas. This has been the trend for hard coal mines during the last decade, when overall [...]
Germany’s Federal Environment Agency claims that the European nation could get all its power from renewables by 2050.
At the moment Germany derives 16% of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind – a threefold increase from 1995. Some 300,000 jobs in the renewable energy field have been created since 2000 and Germany [...]
Flooding has continued in central and Eastern Europe this weekend, with some 5,000 people evacuating their homes in Poland and western Russia, according to a video report from NBC’s Today Show. Conditions are particularly bad in several Siberian villages due to ice damming up a river.
According to a report from Deutsche Welle, the death toll [...]
Have you ever heard the phrase “get them while they’re young”? Well, apparently that also applies to the green lifestyle.
German designers GPAC have designed the Discovery Childcare Center: a preschool in the shape of 13 eggs. These egg structures can be moved and positioned in a number of ways. They are also connected by a [...]
Are you between the ages of 18 and 25? Are you a citizen of either Germany or Indonesia? Do you love the environment?
If you answered yes to all 3 questions, then you might be interested in the latest international WWF program!
WWF Germany and WWF Indonesia have teamed up to create the Forest Friends Program. The [...]
Copenhagen it’s not, but the first UN climate meetings since December’s disappointment in Denmark began today in Bonn, Germany.
According to a report from BBC News, developing countries are strongly on board with the UN process and would like to see a binding global climate deal under the Kyoto Protocol by the next major summit, which [...]
Germany has talked about cutting back on solar energy support and withdrawing wind power supplied to Taiwan as of late. The question is: Why?
According to a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, their reasoning for cutting back on supporting the solar energy industry is because they don’t want the market to overheat. Germany is [...]
When Germany introduced a similar FIT scheme 10 years ago — but with targets of ten percent — it started a green energy revolution in the country, turning it into a European leader in renewables.
– CNN
The UK government announced on February 1st that it would pay households that generate renewable energy. The scheme, called Clean [...]
Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act has required power companies to buy all the energy produced by anyone making renewable power, at a fixed above-market price for 20 years. As the financial crisis starts to ease in Germany, homeowners and solar investors are clambering to get into the action before 2010 when the Feed-in Tariff rates [...]
Depends on whom you ask
Most sources seem to say that it’s either the tropical eco-paradise of Costa Rica or Germany, the environmentally conscious, European economic powerhouse. But it was Switzerland, followed by Sweden and Norway, which topped Yale’s 2008 EPI – or Environmental Performance Index – a grading system that ranks countries by their carbon [...]
