5 h. ago Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implicationsVast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.Scientists at University College London (UCL), working with Watershed Investigations and the Guardian, analysed 2002–24 data from satellites, which track changes in Earth’s gravitational field. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protectionKaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine’s future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.Kallas reads history books as a leisure activity and – drawing on her own country’s history of Soviet occupation – has long maintained that the Soviet Union fell, but its imperialism never did. “Russia has never truly had to come to terms with its brutal past o...

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21 h. ago Brit reveals why she left London for Europe's 'most welcoming city'

A British woman who traded London for another European capital has revealed what it's like to live in the continent's 'most welcoming city'.

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25 h. ago WW3 conscription age for men and women in UK as military service plans announced

France has announced new military service plans as concerns grow over Russia's threat to Europe. Here's what historical conscription rules reveal about age ranges and exemptions if the UK ever faced a WW3 scenario.

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45 h. ago ‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of arsenic in Argentina’s water

In some of the country’s poorest, driest areas, people rely on water contaminated with arsenic 60 times over safe limits, causing crippling illnesses in familiesIt’s a cloudy winter’s day in El Chañaral, an old Indigenous Wichi community now inhabited only by the Bustamante family. It lies nine miles from San José del Boquerón and near Piruaj Bajo, in Argentina’s northern Copo department.As Batista Bustamante and Lidia Cuellar drink mate tea, their seven-year-old daughter, Marcela, climbs on to her purple bicycle and heads into the scrubland. She reaches a reservoir – a puddle of greenish-brown water – and pulls a pink pair of scissors from her pocket, which she drives into the earth to extract chunks of mud. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Extremists including gangland murderer and terror plotter win appeal against solitary confinement in prison... because 'it makes them depressed, anxious and traumatised'

The Mail on Sunday can reveal the trio used the controversial European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to argue their cases at a cost of more than £500,000 to the taxpayer.

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6 d. ago Extremists, including gangland murder and terror plotter, win appeal over solitary confinement in prison... because 'it makes them depressed, anxious and traumatised'

The Mail on Sunday can reveal the trio used the controversial European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to argue their cases at a cost of more than £500,000 to the taxpayer.

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8 d. ago Sky Sports make surprise announcement as European football broadcast plan revealed

Sky Sports will broadcast UEFA Europa League and Conference League action from the 2027/2028 season, the broadcaster have now announced.

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8 d. ago BREAKING: Sky Sports make surprise announcement as European football broadcast plan revealed

Sky Sports will broadcast the UEFA Europa League and Conference League from 2027/28, the broadcaster have announced

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8 d. ago Revealed: The ski resorts in Europe that get the most COMPLAINTS

Millions hit the slopes around the world every year and enjoy skiing with their friends and family.

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1 week ago Epstein’s sick emails: Paedophile backed Tommy Robinson and holocaust 'jokes'

Epstein files reveal paedophile's ties to Europe’s far right: Disgraced billionaire supported Tommy Robinson’s release and boasted of global political influence

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1 week ago Top MIT scientist blasts 'climate hysteria,' says global warming fears are driven by money... not evidence

A climate scientist with decades of experience has joined the growing opposition to what critics of climate change alarmism call nonsense science.

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2 w. ago ‘There’s fire all around us, this is it’ – This is climate breakdown

Working with jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal was a huge source of joy. But the wildfires are getting worse. This is Abbie’s storyLocation Pantanal, BrazilDisaster Wildfires, a number of yearsAbbie Martin splits her time between captaining a boat in the Virgin Islands and doing research in Brazil’s Pantanal, a region that includes the world’s largest tropical wetland and where she founded the Jaguar Identification Project. Fires in the Pantanal have reached new extremes, killing at least 17 million vertebrate animals and burning 27% of the vegetation cover in 2020. Climate breakdown made the Pantanal drier between 2001-21, increasing the occurrence of above-average fires in the region. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference. Deregulation plans are misguidedEurope is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook. This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.Once Europe’s most hyped law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now on the chopping block. Powerful forces within the European Commission, supported by the German government, hope that deregulation will boost Europe’s tech sector, particularly AI. This is a grave mistake.Johnny Ryan is director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy ...

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2 w. ago Richard E. Grant reveals how he only travels solo after the death of wife Joan and has visited eight countries this summer... after waiting until dark to go out to avoid tourists

Richard E. Grant has revealed that some of Europe's most famous cities have become so overcrowded that he explores them only at night.

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2 w. ago Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports

Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with droughtWater levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%, according to reports, as the country suffers from severe water shortages.“The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than 3%,” Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s second largest city by population, told the ISNA news agency. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate actionMore than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.Lobbyists representing the interests of the oil, gas and coal industries – which are mostly responsible for climate breakdown – have been allowed to participate in the annual climate negotiations where states are meant to come in good faith and commit to ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Vietnam rethinks its flood strategy as climate change drives storms and devastation

Vietnam is rethinking how it copes with floods after a year of relentless storms has collapsed hillsides and turned streets into rivers

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3 w. ago European Union to reveal ratings for candidate countries – Europe live

Kaja Kallas to issue update this afternoon on progress countries are making towards becoming union memberIn other news, Czechs are mourning the archbishop emeritus of Prague, Dominik Duka, who has died overnight at the age of 82.Cardinal Duka – whose father flew in the British RAF during the second world war – was one of the most influential religious leaders in the Czech Republic, serving as a dissident priest under communism who eventually got imprisoned alongside playwright turned president Václav Havel. Continue reading...

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last month Europe's top city for a 'spooky Halloween break' is bargain destination with few tourists

The top ten cities in Europe for a spooky Halloween break has been revealed, from calculating the number of hours of darkness to Gothic Medieval buildings, these cities make the list for a scary break

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