Environment

Powerful winds ablate Antarctica’s snow surface in a previously unrecognized way

This grayscale image of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet shows the Recovery Ice Stream flowing out of the...

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EP this week: migration, GMOs, organic food, climate change

MEPs have another busy week ahead of them.

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Greenpeace activists protest South Korea’s plan to build world’s largest nuclear power plant

Greenpeace East Asia activists Tuesday entered the restricted zone of the Kori nuclear power plant (NPP) near Busan, South Korea’s second largest city, to protest the country’s expansion of nuclear and its risk to the public. The protest aims to ramp...

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COP21: the road leading to the vital climate change conference in Paris

Only two months left before world leaders gather in Paris to hammer out a global agreement to fight climate change. Parliament will send a delegation of 15 MEPs to the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in December to help obtain a successful...

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