Category: 3. Europe

As we crossed the Keswick Bridge into the rolling hills outside Inverness, green fields of early-spring barley still had months to grow until harvest. The grain will be sent to a nearby malting factory and eventually made into whisky at some of Scotland’s 150-plus…

Trees in cities aren’t just a ‘nice-to-have’; they have a huge bearing on public health by keeping us cooler.

A new study has calculated that increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30 per cent could have prevented more than one third of all global heat-related deaths between…

The latest technology insight report from the Observatory on Patents and Technology reveals recent trends in the rapidly growing field of plastic waste management.

In the past three decades, there has been a surge in inventions to recover and…

European officials are working against the clock to secure a trade deal with Washington before early July, when so-called “reciprocal” tariffs will kick in on EU goods sent to the US.

“We absolutely are committed to finding agreements with the US that benefit both sides,”…

On 28 April 2025, large parts of Spain and Portugal experienced a sudden and widespread power blackout. Within hours, speculation began to circulate: had the country gone “too far” with renewables? Was this the downside of phasing…

However, it also ruled that the U.K. had made a procedural error in bringing in the ban by not giving due regard to the rights of EU fishers during an adjustment period — as required under the Brexit trade deal.

The fish are fed to livestock by farmers in countries like Denmark, but are…