Are you bankrolling the climate crisis?

There’s a bleak poetry to 2024 being both the warmest year on record and the first since 2021 that the world’s banks collectively increased their fossil fuel financing. Last year they channelled $869bn into the hands of big polluters. Those...

World’s Tropical Forests are Getting Younger And That’s Actually a Major Problem for the Climate

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission...

German Media Spotlight Lipsi’s Sustainable Tourism Model

Lipsi, Dodecanese. Photo Source: Municipality of Lipsi The small Dodecanese island of Lipsi has attracted the attention of major German travel media, following a municipal campaign promoting holidays focused on authenticity and sustainability....

From division to discovery: Cycling the Berlin Wall trail 35 years after Germany reunified

The night of 9 November 1989 was undoubtedly one of the most dramatic of the 20th century. The Berlin Wall in Germany – the armed border that had separated citizens of East and West Berlin since 1961 – was finally opened, kickstarting its...

Beyond the Berlin Wall: Germany Marks 35 Years of Unity While Building Bridges to Thailand

Economic Partnership and Innovation The economic ties between Germany and Thailand demonstrate the practical benefits of international cooperation. With bilateral trade reaching approximately $10.8 billion in 2024, Germany has become Thailand's...

Germany urges Africa to invest in energy technologies for modernized, advanced agriculture  

By Dennis Peprah Sunyani, Oct. 2, GNA-Professor Dr Osvaldo Romero Romero, the Director of the Study Program, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin School of Technology, Germany has urged Africa to invest in energy technologies and support her...

Conservatives must have no part in Farage’s populist extremism

At the start of the second world war, President Roosevelt was forced by his Republican opponents to agree that America would not enter it. Hitler then made the unbelievable mistake of challenging America’s sovereignty by attacking the convoys upon...

Boeing Delivers Germany's 1st P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft

Germany has taken delivery of its first Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, signaling a further bolstering of its naval surveillance and anti-submarine warfare capabilities amid rising tension in the Baltic Sea region. As per Defense...

How Europe's power market shakeup could unlock new wave of renewables

A major shakeup of how power is traded in Europe could help unlock a wave of new wind and solar deployment, say analysts, while also offering new opportunities for battery energy storage. From Tuesday this week, European electricity exchanges...

Greenpeace report slams Europe for reliance on €34.3 billion in Russian gas and doesn’t even mention Hungary

Hungary has repeatedly tried to set the record straight about not being the biggest buyer of Russian energy. Now, they are getting some support from an unlikely source: Greenpeace. In a September report titled “The LNG Trap,” which relies on...

Can hybrid grapes solve the climate change dilemma for winemakers?

It’s a fringe movement so far, but hybrids have proven they can make good wine and may be better able to withstand climate change and disease. Matt Niess is trying to do something different. Unlike almost every other grower and winemaker in...

German Jordanian University Earns Special Recognition at UAE Energy Award

Ammon News - The German Jordanian University has made a significant stride in innovation and sustainability by earning a Special Recognition Award at the fifth UAE Energy Awards (EEA) for its pioneering "Energy Innovation Platform," developed in...

Micronesia calls for Climate urgency, Oceans Protection and global justice at…

Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Wesley W. Simina used his address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly last week to demand urgent climate action, stronger protections for oceans, and meaningful reform of the UN Security...

COP climate talks are ‘heartbreak’ for Pacific Islands. Here is why...

By Gabriella Marchant and Jordan Fennell Joseph Sikulu’s long-haul journey home to the Pacific has felt fruitless after the recent world climate talks. It has become a “heartbreaking” exercise seeing the annual United Nations Conference of the...

Climate Change Isn’t Slowing Down South Florida’s Waterfront Real Estate Boom Anytime Soon

It’s 4:30 pm on a slow, molten Friday afternoon along Las Olas Boulevard, and the closing bell on Wall Street South rumbles out over the canals linking the upscale finger island neighborhood of Seven Isles to the Atlantic Ocean. At the newly...

German power company ends ammonia talks with Hyphen

German electricity company RWE Generation has reviewed its interest in Namibia’s Hyphen Hydrogen Energy project, citing slow European demand. RWE Generation spokesperson Olaf Winter yesterday told The Namibian it does not plan to import ammonia...

Christian faith hardly plays a role among young Germans, study says

Only 43 per cent of people in Germany under the age of 29 are Christian. Many of them do not believe in a personal God. "The Christian churches in their current state do not reach them." "It is a challenge for the Christian churches to think about...

Labor Relations in Germany – Three Snapshots

While employers and the capital side of the equation like to spin the hallucination of a highly – or even over-regulated – labor relations system in Germany, the reality is quite the opposite. Within Germany’s supposedly tightly regulated labor...

Türkiye hosts German delegation to showcase geothermal expertise, technology, and development

A delegation from Germany visited Türkiye's first privately owned geothermal power plant, operating in Aydin under the auspices of Menderes Geothermal Electricity Generation Inc. (source: JED) JED hosted a German delegation in Aydin, Türkiye,...

A planet-first diet can feed the world by 2050 while improving the environment, new scientific analysis finds

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Nearly everyone on the planet could have access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food by 2050 — all while improving the environment — if nations work together to implement a “planetary health diet,” a new report...