Environmental Protection
Making Europe’s new energy infrastructure wildlife-friendly
All infrastructure comes with some drawbacks to the natural environmental and Europe's energy infrastructure is no different.
Critically endangered Balkan lynxes still have a fighting chance
The critically endangered felines number somewhere between a mere 40 and 70 individuals across several Balkan nations.
There are more primary forests in Europe than we thought
Though the total area of forest is not large in Europe, there are more virgin forests left than previously thought.
Invasive pythons are a grave threat to wildlife in Florida
The snakes have disrupted the natural food chain balance and decimated native animal populations.
Bananas could soon be gone due to diseases and climate change
Several strains of a fungus are posing grave threats to the world’s banana plants. So are changing weather patterns.
Baltic Sea mystery: Where is the missing undersea data site?
Among the tools that European scientists use to understand climate change are the instruments of the Boknis Eck underwater observatory in the Baltic Sea, which measures methane in the seabed, water current flows and other data. Now the undersea installation