Topic: Europe

Local authorities in England will receive funding to switch back from fortnightly to weekly rubbish collections, the government announced on Friday.A £250 million scheme starting April will support councils which pledge to reinstate or retain weekly waste collections for at least five ...

BORODINO, Russia (Reuters) - Three ear-splitting gunshots pierce the country air, a cavalry unit gallops across the forest clearing, and several thousand Russian spectators gasp and shriek with delight.The Battle of Borodino -- 2011 redux -- has begun.A burning thatched house provides ...

Hungary is opposed to a Canadian gold mine project in Romania using cyanide in the extraction process, Romania's environment minister said Tuesday."I received last week Hungary's answer on the Rosia Montana gold mine project. The Hungarians do not agree to the use ...

The European Commission warned Italy on Tuesday that it risks fines unless it improves waste collection in Naples where thousands of tons of garbage have built up in recent days.Exasperated residents have taken to setting alight mounds of rubbish in the southern ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway backed Indonesia's drive to slow deforestation on Thursday under a $1 billion deal with Oslo even though Jakarta said it faced a "maze" of reforms and lacks maps to pin down exact conservation areas."Any nation can do more. ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich peatlands on Borneo island, an investigation by an environmental group said.Indonesia revealed a long list of exemptions to its much-delayed two-year ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of 72 businesses, including household names such as Coca-Cola and Google, joined forces on Wednesday in support of deeper European cuts to greenhouse gases.They signed a declaration calling for the European Union to extend to 30 percent ...

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday Russia had accumulated more than 30 billion tonnes of hazardous waste, calling on businesses to contribute to the country's environmental clean-up.Speaking in Dzerzhinsk, site of Cold War-era factories producing chemical weapons ranked as one of the ...

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told Brazilian business leaders Wednesday that there should be a global "green economy" with sustainable growth.Reinfeldt, who on Tuesday discussed ethanol production, environmental concerns and technological cooperation with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, spoke Wednesday to the Federation ...

Cyber-environmentalists from Cambodia to Brazil are using Google Earth-based software to target and banish trash from the countryside as they gear up for World Cleanup 2012, event organisers said Friday."Preparations for World Cleanup 2012 that were launched in February are being lead ...