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Europe's First Cross-Border BECCS Chain Launches
A biomethane plant in Niederwil, Switzerland, has started exporting captured carbon dioxide to permanent storage beneath the North Sea.
Japan–India Biogas Agreement: 1,000 Plants by 2030
The initiative announced at the India–Japan summit aims to build 1,000 biogas plants and a market for 2.5 million CNG vehicles by 2030.
The Po on the Brink of Drying Up, the Iberian Peninsula in Flames
While Italy's largest river can supply agriculture with irrigation water for only a few more days, drought since spring and the wildfires in its wake are hitting the whole of southern Europe.
A Natural Coagulant Against Microplastics – Moringa Seeds May Outperform Chemicals
A promising water treatment innovation: Brazilian and British researchers have deployed a tropical plant, known and used for water treatment since antiquity, to filter out microplastics.
From Wastewater to Fertiliser: a $12 Billion Turn
The global nutrient recovery market will double by 2032 – anaerobic digestion and circular economy thinking are rewriting what we mean by wastewater treatment.
We Need to Prepare for Rat-Borne Disease
According to the latest study by the EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and The Lancet, a warming and wetter climate increases the risk of one of Europe's underdiagnosed waterborne bacterial zoonoses under every future scenario examined.
The Returning Giant – a Super El Niño Is Coming
Climate models suggest a record-strength El Niño may develop in 2026 – with consequences ranging from heatwaves to droughts and floods, and Europe will not be spared.
Denmark Shows How Biogas Can Be Carbon-Negative
On 20 May, Denmark's Bigadan inaugurated a CO₂ facility in Kalundborg that delivers one of the world's first fully integrated, commercial-scale value chains for the permanent geological storage of carbon dioxide captured from biogas.
Explaining the Spring Drought
By the book, it should rain in spring, if only for the sake of farming – as the saying goes, rain in May is worth its weight in gold. But it does not rain. What lies behind this? Why is the lack of spring rain in Central Europe no coincidence?
Biogas Is Getting Cooler in Europe
From Denmark to Spain, more and more signs show that biomethane is not a promise for the future – it is today's reality.