environmental-issues
As Thames Water Fights for Survival, Crumbling Assets Show Challenge Ahead
Lead EU Lawmaker on Sustainability Laws Proposes More Cuts
Australia to Boost Aerial Surveillance of Pacific for Illegal Fishing Fleets
HeadlinesPortugal Leads Marine Protection With New Designated Area
May Was World's Second-Hottest on Record, EU Scientists Say
Date: June 11, 2025
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The world experienced its second-warmest May since records began this year, a month in which climate change fuelled a record-breaking heatwave in Greenland,...
French Senate Backs Law to Curb Ultra Fast-Fashion
Date: June 10, 2025
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Senate approved a revised version of a law regulating fast fashion on Tuesday, which if implemented would ban advertising by fast-growing Chinese e-commerce platforms like...
Explainer-What Is the High Seas Treaty to Protect World Oceans?
Date: June 9, 2025
By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) - While many countries have agreed to take steps to protect the vast, ungoverned swathes of the world's oceans, they have yet to see their High Seas Treaty go into...
Development Banks to Invest 3 Billion Euros in Ocean Plastics Fight
Date: June 9, 2025
By Simon Jessop, Virginia Furness and Kate Abnett LONDON (Reuters) -A group of development banks plans to invest at least 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) by the end of the decade in tackling plastic...
UK Seeks to Extend Ban on Bottom Trawling Fishing in English Seas
Date: June 8, 2025
LONDON (Reuters) -The British government said on Monday it planned to extend a ban on bottom trawling to protect marine life amid calls from acclaimed naturalist David Attenborough and Prince William...
UK's Prince William Calls for Urgent Action to Protect Oceans
Date: June 8, 2025
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Prince William on Sunday called on world leaders and businesses to take urgent action to protect the planet's oceans, saying it was a challenge "like none we have faced...