New Limits on Pollution Herald Change in Europe
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As the Kyoto climate protocol comes into effect, European industries fear losing a competitive edge to U.S. rivals.
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Europeans must be prepared to adapt to massive climate change over the coming decades, warn environmental researchers. Among the changes: hotter summers, milder winters and less precipitation in Southern Europe. By Wendy Grossman.
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The European Environment Agency reported global climate change, including frequent floods, droughts and heat waves, are severe and will continue to worsen.
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The European Union has proposed that car advertisements shown in member countries carry tobacco-style labels warning of the environmental impact they cause.
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Europeans may claim leadership in fighting global warming, but they get black marks from environmentalists for their fishing policy.
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The proposal prompted criticism from European automakers who said the rules went to far and environmentalists who said the regulations did not go far enough.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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Papers throughout Europe discuss the coming into effect of the Kyoto Protocol.
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Greenhouse gas emissions have doubled the risk of European heatwaves similar to last year's, a UK study says.
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MAN-MADE changes to the climate have at least doubled the chances of having a summer in Europe as scorching as that of 2003, according to British scientists.
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A new tool based on satellite data shows trends in the way Europeans use our landscape.
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By Helen Logan  Firms were today warned to start gearing up for Europe's biggest- ever single piece of legislation.   Euro-MPs have given the green light to new laws on the testing of thousands of chemicals in daily use.
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Europeâs farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil.
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Some dangerous chemicals could be banned from the European market, and about 30,000 substances used in everyday products ranging from detergents to toys will have to be registered in a central European Union database under a new law. The European Parliament passed the law, one of the most complex and far-reaching commission regulations ever, after years of haggling marked by intense lobbying by the European chemicals industry and by protests from environmentalists who sought more restraints on the industry. The law, a compromise balancing health and environmental concerns against fears that excessive red tape would stifle business, puts the burden of proof on companies to show that industrial chemicals and substances used in everyday products are safe. It is likely to take effect in mid-2007.
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The European Commission set targets Wednesday for EU member states to slash greenhouse gases, seeking to calm fears about the burden of fighting climate change and warning that the cost of dithering would be much higher.
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Europe and California are taking the lead in imposing new rules for monitoring what is in perfumes, creams, nail polish and hair sprays.
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Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared Thursday. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze from Los Angeles to Houston to New York.