Climate change is taking a heavy toll on the ancient trees of Sanssouci, the sumptuous summer palace built in the
18th century as the Prussian answer to Versailles.
Discounter Penny is hiking its prices for a week to reflect the true environmental cost of its products. Could it actually make a difference in how food is priced (and produced) in Germany?
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck on Tuesday welcomed "important progress" in talks with the European Commission on the conditions for state aid for hydrogen power plants.
The remains of a German climber who has been missing since 1986 have been recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps, the Valais canton police said on Thursday.
Residents of the rural Bavarian village of Schnabelwaid have said "yes" to the installation of wind turbines on the hillside next to their community in a rare win for an energy source unloved in Germany's biggest region.
Germany has made strides in expanding its onshore wind power capabilities this year but needs to pick up the pace to
meet key targets for the decade, a sector study said Tuesday.
Normal service has resumed at Düsseldorf and Hamburg airports after activists from the Last Generation group stuck themselves to the airport runways on Thursday morning - but calls for action against the activist group are growing louder.
More than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe's record-breaking summer last year, a study said on Monday which called for more to be done to protect against even deadlier heatwaves expected in the coming years.
As Germany looks to a future without fossil fuels, a big white boxy appliance is generating a lively debate - and often a heated one - for its potential to replace emissions-heavy oil and gas boilers.
Germany's coalition government has scrapped a planned exception for the over 80s on a controversial law that will require homeowners to switch to eco-friendly energy to heat their home rather than oil and gas.
The German government has finalised a controversial bill that will require homeowners to switch to eco-friendly energy rather than oil and gas. Here's what property owners and tenants need to know.
Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is planning to implement a heat protection plan in the coming weeks. But many of Germany's cities have already been taking action to protect their residents from rising temperatures.
Prosecutors in Germany have confirmed a press report that investigators have listened in on phone calls of climate activists from the Letzte Generation ("Last Generation") group, sparking widespread outrage.
Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, according to a sweeping new report that said the world's fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times.
When Maike Biert was choosing a new heating system for her house in western Germany, she baulked at the huge cost of installing a heat pump, instead opting for a gas boiler.
Germany is already experiencing heat-induced forest fires and drought. What other climate challenges will this summer bring, and is the country doing enough to prepare?
A law on slashing emissions from heating in German homes will be introduced in parliament this week, but looks set to be significantly watered down after weeks of infighting in the
coalition government.
At a red-brick factory in the German port city of Hamburg, cocoa bean shells go in one end, and out the other comes an amazing black powder with the potential to counter climate change.
German police on Wednesday carried out raids
across seven states targeting climate activists of the "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) group, which has sparked controversy with street blockades
involving protesters glueing themselves to the asphalt.
Copies of a climate change petition along with photos of the signatories lay at the foot of the altar. Metres away, a dozen activists were undergoing street protest training.
Moritz Riedacher sat down at a busy road junction with four other climate activists in southwestern Germany earlier
this year, holding up traffic for hours -- an action that landed him a jail sentence. But he remains undeterred.
Environmental activists glued themselves to
the asphalt in dozens of street blockades across Berlin on Monday to demand
the government do more to tackle climate change, an action condemned by
Germany's finance minister as "physical violence".
