Klaus Töpfer, a former German environment minister and longtime politician with the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), has died. He was 85 years old. Töpfer, who led the Environment Ministry from ...

Environmental groups have sued four large German companies, seeking to alter their products and activities to comply with climate goals far stricter than those set by German law. The cases derive in ...

A complex and sophisticated planning and approval process does not prevent opponents from raising environmental challenges—even after project approvals are awarded The German federal government plans ...

German environmental activists are facing increasingly harsh rhetoric and legal action from authorities as they mobilize to confront the climate crisis. This heavy-handed approach reflects a troubling ...

BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A German environmental group on Monday said it had filed a lawsuit against a privately operated liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Baltic coast, saying it causes ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s environment minister has thrown her weight behind proposals to price carbon dioxide and kick-start the country’s stalled efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Svenja Schulze ...

Two key figures behind the emergence of concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) as a viable energy technology have won a share of the 2012 German Environmental Award. Worth €500,000, the award is presented ...