Filter by
News Archive
All Environment News (607)
RSS![Multicoloured plastic pellets](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/plastic%20pellets%20jpg.jpg?itok=mfB2qHMO)
Today, the Commission is proposing measures to prevent microplastic pollution from the unintentional release of plastic pellets.
![Multicoloured microplastics](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/microplastics%20jpg.jpg?itok=NtkOvTmK)
Find out more about the new proposal for a Regulation on plastic pellets.
![Map of flood risk across Europe](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/floods%20viewer.png?itok=CKxfHzKG)
Over 14,000 areas in the EU are at significant risk of flooding, according to a new online viewer launched today.
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is delivering an Opinion on new EU soil legislation, focusing on local and regional actions. Here we interview the rapporteur for this Opinion, Frida Nilsson, CoR member for Lidköping Municipality, Sweden.
![Man in supermarket looking at ecolabels on detergent bottles](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/EU%20ecolabel.png?itok=sxdUKeWH)
New statistics show that the EU Ecolabel is flourishing in numbers, with almost 90 000 certified goods and services.
![Drought - Spain](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/avportal/P-058734/00-11.jpg?itok=sR3R23Rq)
The Commission has published two tools to enhance the EU’s preparedness to combat droughts and water scarcity.
![Text reading European Business and Nature Summit on blue background](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/EBNS_3%20%281%29%20resized.png?itok=tjiSlff_)
Over 350 companies, financial institutions, governments and representatives from academia and civil society are convening to discuss how businesses will deliver on nature commitments.
![E-waste heap from discarded laptop parts](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/NA1409_shutterstock_1174197958-554x416.jpg?itok=XFj1id5V)
The Commission has adopted a set of policy recommendations for Member States to improve and incentivise the return of used and waste mobile phones, tablets, laptops and their chargers.
![Cityscape of Vilnius with European Green Capital logo](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/Getty%20Images%20Vilnius%20%281%29.png?itok=SjFpNEaD)
The winners of the European Green Cities 2025 Awards are Vilnius (Lithuania), Viladecans (Spain) and Treviso (Italy).
![A bird’s eye view of boreal forests: using satellite remote sensing to monitor biodiversity richness](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/NA1518_shutterstock_1158763912.jpg?itok=LdKk9N1I)
Issue 610: Remote mapping shows promise as a cost-efficient way to roughly predict lichen communities in European boreal forests, finds a study of aspen trees in southern Finland.