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Police say they have filed 76 criminal charges and temporarily detained 23 activists during days of protests against US electric car manufacturer Tesla at its manufacturing plant outside Berlin. These included five activists who were brought before a magistrate, the police announced on Sunday. However, all of them were eventually released from custody. According to the police, the criminal charges mainly related to offences against the assembly law, coercion in road traffic, acts of resistance, breach of the peace and damage to property. Since Wednesday, several organizations had been calling ...
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Further protest action against the Tesla's expansion of its giant electric car factory near Berlin is possible in the coming days despite the end of recent demonstrations, several activist groups warned on Sunday. The alliance Tesla den Hahn abdrehen ("Cut off Tesla's water" - in reference to the company's huge water usage) said it will attend Thursday's local council meeting in Grünheide on the growth plans for the US company's Gigafactory. If the council votes in favour of significantly expanding the site, contrary to a public consultation, the allied protest group Disrupt Tesla "will be bac...
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Images of stormy winds throwing walls of fire, 10 metres high, towards hotels were seen around the world last year. The sheer horror facing tourists in Greek holiday hotspots will be remembered by many considering a trip there this summer. In July, some 20,000 tourists and residents in the south-east of the island of Rhodes needed to be evacuated in the space of just hours in July 2023, followed by a days-long battle against the flames. The fires left behind extensive damage, burnt houses and charred olive groves. Nevertheless, tens of thousands continue to spend their holidays on the island. ...
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Activists tried to break into Tesla's electric car factory in Germany just outside Berlin on Friday during a demonstration against a proposed plant expansion, according to police. So far, the demonstrators had not succeeded in accessing the Tesla plant grounds, a police spokesman told dpa on Friday afternoon, but had managed to overcome the first fences on the property. The police spokesman described the situation as "dynamic." One woman has been injured in the protests around the factory site so far, and three police officers have also been injured, he said. According to the police, several a...
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As the temperatures heat up, so does the growth in your garden - and the dreaded need to haul out that lawnmower to keep the grass in shape. But now, you can forget about what your neighbours might say about your unruly lawn. "No Mow May," originally a UK movement, has spread to other countries and proponents say it will actually keep your grass greener. Blooming flowers on the lawn attract bumblebees and butterflies as well as special species that feed off of the growth. Cut the grass and you chop off this ecosystem. "Even before wildflowers have a chance to grow up from the lawn and blossom,...
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Tourists are growing increasingly frustrated with sustainability requirements for travel, going by a survey by booking.com, in findings that tally with recent polling of consumers in other sectors. One in three of the 31,000 people surveyed in 34 countries by the accommodation platform said their choices would not make any difference to "irreversible" climate change. A quarter of respondents said the threat of climate change was "not as severe as people make it out to be" and something that almost 30% were tired of hearing about "all the time." And while 45% of those asked said they view envir...
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Next time you need fresh soil for your flower bed, balcony box or herb pot on the windowsill, make sure that it is peat-free. Environmentalists are keen to make small-scale gardeners aware of the difference they can make to the protection of some of Europe's most fragile ecosystems. Peat extraction for gardening is leading to the destruction of raised bogs across Europe and threatening important habitats for rare animals and plants. Peatlands also store a lot of carbon, and large amounts of CO2 are released into the atmosphere when they are disturbed by commercial exploitation. So, you can als...
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Google says it is making walking and rail transport more prominent in the options it provides when people look for driving routes or flights. "In Maps, we’re launching a feature that shows public transit or walking suggestions next to driving routes, if travel times are comparable and practical," the internet search portal and advertisement seller announced, saying 15 cities, including Amsterdam, Barcelona and London, are to be included in the new feature. Information on trains and buses is to be offered on Google Flights, an addition that follows their being added to Google Search in 2023. Al...
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Jobs at German chemical company BASF's plant in Harjavalta, Finland, are at stake due to repeated delays and a court impasse over obtaining permits from authorities. BASF warned on Thursday that it is now considering indefinite layoffs of all employees at the plant if the permitting issue is not resolved. The chemical company plans to produce precursor chemicals for batteries at the plant, but efforts to win regulatory approval in Finland in order to commission the facility have been dragging on for years. Most recently, a Finnish court suspended an environmental permit granted at the end of 2...
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The European Parliament has given the green light for a new EU law to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector. A majority of MEPs in Brussels voted in favour of the regulations on Wednesday, which will mean stricter rules for the oil, gas and coal industries. In November, parliamentary negotiators reached an agreement with their counterparts from the EU member states on the corresponding law. According to this, operators of oil and gas plants will be required to regularly search for and repair major methane leaks in future. In coal mining, methane emissions are to be measured and repor...
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