Europe

"A French oil company engaged in “misleading commercial practices” about the scope of its environmental commitments, a court has ruled."

"As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages."

"The European Commission on Friday announced restrictions on the use of so-called "forever chemicals" in firefighting foams."

"Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course has breached sewage contamination limits 14 times since 2019, documents reveal."

"Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases". "Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found."

"The U.S. and U.K. are expected to sign a deal to bolster nuclear energy as President Trump travels to Britain."

"High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years."

"Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more. "We know that this tree is a survivor," he says, taking a leaf sample for DNA testing."