Worldwide, environmental crime annually generates between about $110 billion and $281 billion in illicit profits. Although environmental crime is the fourth-largest type of crime financially speaking, authorities often have difficulties prosecuting it.

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie have left Number Ten Downing Street for the final time. It was the first act in a carefully choreographed handover of power - that saw Liz Truss become Britain's new prime minister. We spoke with Quentin Peel from the Eur...

Eu gas prices again reached near-record highs on Monday. EU countries are digesting the implications of Russia's decision to switch off flows down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, announced on Friday. European stocks dropped at the start of the week...

In Germany, farmers are struggling with the impact of heatwaves and drought. Jonas Schulze Niehoff in eastern Germany is no exception. Alongside the traditional grains and potatoes, he's now testing out drought-resistant quinoa and chickpeas.

With over 60 percent of the world's uncultivated arable land, Africa should not be importing most of its grain, right? Ten years ago a World Bank report said "Africa's farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food cr...

Much of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere is battling either wildfires, low water levels, harvest warnings, water use restrictions or a mixture of all these. In Germany, one core focus of the drought is the Rhine River, which ultimately connects the Alps...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who ended the Cold War without bloodshed, has died in hospital on Tuesday. He was 91. From 1985 until the collapse of the Soviet union in 1991, Gorbachev oversaw a massive overhaul of the country's e...

wo United States Navy warships are sailing through the Taiwan Strait, in the first such transit since China carried out the largest-ever military drills around Taiwan, following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island earlier this m...

A drought in the US state of Texas has unveiled the path of an ancient dinosaur. Footprints from the Acrocanthosaurus, a dinosaur that lived 113 million year...

Scarce rain and successive heat waves across Europe have affected river discharges and water levels. In Northern Italy, there hasn't been significant rainfall for months, and snowfall this year was down 70%, resulting in less meltwater. That's led to a dr...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his deputy, Economic Affairs and Climate Action Minister Robert Habeck, kicked off a three-day trip to Canada on Monday, seeking to arrange short-term gas-based energy solutions and to explore longer-term, cleaner options...

China is suffering a severe water shortage after its hottest and driest summer since the government began recording rainfall 61 years ago. Authorities try to protect this year's harvest from intense drought by using chemicals to generate rain and people a...

Air taxi developers present their electrically powered mini airplanes as a new, sustainable form of air transportation. But there is still a long way to go f...

Much of Europe has suffered through repeated heat-waves in recent weeks. And that's hit economies hard, whether through reduced river-traffic, dried-up farm fields or destructive wildfires. It's a taste of what warming temperatures could bring the contine...

The Yangtze, the Thames, the Rhine – all are nearing historic low water levels as drought bears down on Europe and China. Now the pressure is on industries and shipping firms to find alternatives. They won’t be cheap.