Europe

"Environmental groups see new PM as welcome relief but restoring climate credentials will be difficult".

"Germany has unveiled plans to massively boost charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. The €6.3 billion proposal would increase the number of charging points across the country to 1 million by 2030."

"Liz Truss was at risk of a significant Commons rebellion over fracking on Wednesday after a series of senior MPs, including the head of her net zero review, announced they would vote against the government on a Labour motion on the controversial policy." Truss resigned Thursday.

"For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms."

"British Cycling came under fire this week after it inked a sponsorship deal with oil firm Shell. Conscious Ad Network co-founder Jake Dubbins says the move is yet another example of blatant sportswashing."

"England’s scorching summer that sent temperatures to record-breaking highs has now been linked to a record number of excess deaths among the elderly."

"Up to £20bn of investment in renewable energy is under threat from Liz Truss’s plans to effectively ban solar farms on agricultural land in England, the industry has warned."

"As Earth’s ice melts once more, heed these ancient tales of land lost to the sea."

"It wasn’t long after Henry David Inglis arrived on the island of Jersey, just northwest of France, that he heard the old story. Locals eagerly told the 19th-century Scottish travel writer how, in a bygone age, their island was much more substantial, and that folks used to walk to the French coast. The only hurdle to their journey was a river—one easily crossed using a short bridge.