Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wind turbines stand behind piles of earth at the edge of a construction site in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Jan Woitas/dpa ...

The public still wants action, but elections in the world’s third-biggest economy may stall progress. “The End of Germany’s Climate Crusade.” That’s how a Politico headline last week described the ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany's Christian Democrats, speaks to voters during an election campaign tour stop on February 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Reporter Germany has long been ...

In two recent decisions, German courts have held claims of “climate neutrality” for consumer products to be misleading since they relied on compensation of CO2 by forest conservation projects. This ...

Europe has been identified as the planet’s fastest-warming continent, underlining the ‘urgency’ to reduce emissions and ...

Eighty-five days into a hunger strike, German environmental engineer and climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick had lost more than 61 pounds, his face and body were gaunt and his blood sugar was ...

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a chancellor who says green policy went too far. Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to build back better. Friedrich ...

In the castle gardens of Muskauer Park, which straddles both banks of the German-Polish river border, caretakers have mounted a fightback against the impacts of climate change. On the stump of a ...

A protester demands climate justice in front of the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, ahead of the verdict in the climate lawsuit brought by Peruvian farmer Luciano Lliuya against German energy ...