A fierce drought melted glaciers during Europe's hottest recorded summer last year, a phenomenon that could repeat as the continent warms at nearly twice the global rate, the EU's climate observatory said on Thursday.
Jerome Goerke recently founded greentech.training, a small business company hoping to address the skilled labor shortage that is hindering Germany’s green energy transition.
Starting on Wednesday, April 19th, climate activists from the group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) are gathering members from across Germany for a series of actions attempting to bring the capital to a “standstill”.
Greta Thunberg’s organization says the German group – which controversially glues themselves to roads and threw mashed potatoes on a Monet painting in a Potsdam museum – protests in a divisive way.
Germany's last three nuclear power plants will stop generating electricity from Saturday, but the arduous and decades-long process of decommissioning the sites is only just beginning. Here's a look at what happens after the plants are taken offline.
Germany is to become climate-neutral by 2045 - and on Tuesday the coalition government laid out plans to meet that goal. We break down the key takeaways, and what they mean for both the environment and consumers in Germany.
Campaign groups on Wednesday accused the German government of betraying pledges on climate change after it agreed to loosen rules around environmental targets.
The 27 EU member states approved Monday a deal between Brussels and Germany that lifted Germany's block on a planned phaseout of sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035.
Germany is racing to meet its climate goals and massively expand renewable energy sources like wind and solar. But is a lack of skilled labour standing in the way of its ambition?
As leading scientists call for climate action on all fronts in the IPCC's latest alarming report, we dig into The Local's readers' best practical tips for minimising your climate impact.
The EU is paving the way for new legislation that would make both new and existing homes more climate-friendly - but the law could bring steep costs for homeowners in Germany. Here's what we know so far.
Germany kept greenhouse gas emissions under its target level in 2022 despite a coal-driven increase in pollution in the energy sector, figures published Wednesday showed.
Germany on Thursday presented controversial plans to ban the installation of new oil and gas boilers from 2024 to speed up
the switch to renewable technologies.
Berlin has upset EU partners by blocking a milestone agreement to ban new sales of fossil fuel cars from 2035, as German domestic politics take the bloc hostage.
More frequent extreme weather events as a result of climate change could cost Germany close to one trillion euros by
2050, according to a government-commissioned study published Monday.
Germany's electricity supply during this decade is secure even if the country were to bring its coal exit forward to 2030, according to a government-commissioned report on Wednesday.
Police on Sunday said they had almost finished clearing climate activists from a German village being razed to make way for a coal mine expansion, as both sides accused each other of violence.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned moves to demolish a German village to make way for a coal mine expansion as police clashed with demonstrators at the site on Saturday.
Climate activists occupied the regional office of Germany's vice chancellor Thursday in a show of support for a flagship anti-coal protest, accusing the Green party politician of betrayal.
German police pressed ahead on Wednesday with clearing a camp of anti-coal activists in an abandoned town which has become emblematic of the country's struggle to transition away from fossil fuels amid an energy crisis.
