A regional court in Portugal has temporarily stopped a company drilling for fossil fuels after an appeal by NGOs.
An offshore oil exploration project, in an ar...
Controversial plans for a 4-lane motorway through EU-protected nature zones in the Czech Republic could be about to get the go-ahead.
For the past 20 years env...
The EU’s top court has ruled that Germany is in breach of EU law by not cleaning up its act on water pollution caused by farm fertiliser run-off.
The case bega...
Seven cases of illegal nature destruction have not been properly challenged by the European Commission – the body responsible for enforcing EU nature protection...
Dams on Europe’s rivers have blocked fish migration routes for generations – stopping them from mating. And now plans for thousands of new hydropower dams acros...
In a landmark case, the EU’s top court has ruled that Poland broke EU law by increasing timber logging in a protected primeval forest.
Today the EU Court of Ju...
Member States will be sent to court for failing to act on air quality, European Commissioner Karmenu Vella has confirmed while speaking to the European Parliame...
Poland broke EU law by increasing timber logging in a protected primeval forest. That's the view of a top legal adviser to the EU court.
Yves Bot – a French ma...
Plans to mine lithium – the key metal used to manufacture smartphone batteries – less than 3km from the centre of the Spanish city of Cáceres have been met with...
The Bulgarian government has announced that it will go ahead with plans to construct an international motorway partially through Kresna Gorge, a wildlife hotspo...
