Positive news from Austria
Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel AustriaEurope now generates 52 gigawatts of solar energy, which is still only 2 percent of the continent’s total power output–but enough to fuel all of Austria according to various news sources. |
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EU plan to phase out ‘conventionally fueled’ cars by 2050The European Commission has released a white paper detailing ambitious plans to transform Europe's transport infrastructure by 2050. |
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World’s first five country protected area to conserve “Europe’s Amazon”Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia today signed a historic declaration to establish a trans-boundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve to protect their shared nature and wildlife along the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers, 'Europe’s Amazon'. |
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Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserableAustrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. |
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Museums Around the World Open their Doors at Night Offering Special AttractionsMore than one thousand French museums showed their most original presentations and free of charges, this Saturday night to attract the public to the 5th European Long Night of Museums, which this year had the support from UNESCO. |
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Germany to Join Other Eur. Countries in Ban Against Monsanto’s Genetically Modified MON 810 CornIn the European Union, there is only one permissible genetically-modified crop — and that is Monsanto’s MON 810 engineered corn. |
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EU CO2 emissions drop 7.7 percent from 1990 levels: EAAParis (AFP) June 20, 2008 - Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union dropped 7.7 percent from 1990 to 2006, even as the use of carbon dioxide-intensive coal increased, the European Environment Agency said Friday. |
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Rescued lions join African wildlife sanctuaryBethlehem, South Africa - The wide-eyed lion cub inched slowly to the edge of the wooden crate and stared around him. |
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Portugal finds a power niche in the sunAmareleja, Portugal - Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula. |
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Euro MPs back patio heaters ban
The European Parliament backs a call for a ban on outdoor heaters as a measure against climate change.
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News from Europe
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- First liver cancer ‘chemo-bath’ in the UK
- Scientists uncover gene behind skin disease
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic Games
- Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleet
- Long hunt detects possible ‘God particle’
- After damning research, France proposes banning pesticide linked to bee collapse