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Germany, home to Europe's largest economy, encouraged homeowners and businesses to cut air pollution by using electricity generated by wind turbines, solar panels and by burning plant material.

Britain's biggest supermarkets say they are on course to reduce by half their use of plastic bags by Easter. An estimated 13 billion plastic bags are handed out by UK retailers every year.

Days after the federal government approved one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the country, a group of Shoshone tribal members filed a federal lawsuit to stop the project

Intrinergy has announced that its German subsidiary, CompacTec KG, is doubling its wood pellet production capacity.

If Macedonia, a country of two million people, can plant six million trees, we can only imagine how many trees can be planted in other, bigger countries.

The Government said it will look again at its system for avoiding risks from crop pesticides after an environmental campaigner won a landmark ruling that the current measures contravene European law.

For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.

Police suggestions that the public should be wary of a growing tide of activism amounts to nothing more than hysteria aimed at a movement that has often been radical but rarely violent