Paris drives old cars off its streets 4/7/2016

Paris banned old, exhaust-belching cars from its streets on Friday in a war on air pollution that environmentalists hope will also drive dirty vehicles from the centers of other European cities. ...more

Orangutans rescued from Indonesian forest fires released back into wild 4/7/2016

Three orangutans rescued when forest fires destroyed their Indonesian rainforest habitats were returned to the wild on Borneo island last week. ...more

Venezuela's Maduro ends power rationing as drought eases 4/7/2016

Venezuela as of today will end an electricity rationing program launched in April in response to a severe drought that crimped the operations of the OPEC nation's hydroelectric generators, President Nicolas Maduro on Friday. ...more

Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing GMOs 1/7/2016

More than 100 Nobel laureates called on the international environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday to end its opposition to genetically modified crops, saying there is a scientific consensus they are safe and can benefit society. ...more

UK sets 2032 climate goal, allays ambition fears 1/7/2016

Britain on Thursday set a target to reduce emissions by 57 percent by 2032, allaying fears the country’s climate ambitions would become one of the first casualties of last week’s Brexit vote. ...more

France's Bollore wins electric car-sharing project in Singapore 1/7/2016

French firm Bollore Group won an electric car-sharing project in Singapore, its first in Asia, with a fleet of 1,000 vehicles expected to operate in the densely-populated city-state by 2020, government authorities said on Thursday. ...more

Ozone layer hole appears to be healing, scientists say 1/7/2016

The vast hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica appears to be healing, scientists say, putting the world on track to eventually remedy one of the biggest environmental concerns of the 1980s and 90s. ...more

Giant swimming, venomous centipede discovered by accident in world-first 1/7/2016

Scientists have discovered the world’s first known amphibious centipede, which grows up to 20cm (nearly 8in) long and has an excruciating bite. ...more

Citizen scientists help track UAE dolphin population 30/6/2016

Data collected on the UAE’s first dolphin map has been released, showing several hundred sightings of the popular mammals in the country’s coastal waters. ...more

Germany waters down climate protection plan 30/6/2016

Germany has abandoned plans to set out a timetable to exit coal-fired power production and scrapped C02 emissions reduction goals for individual sectors, according to the latest draft of an environment ministry document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. ...more