Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wind turbines stand behind piles of earth at the edge of a construction site in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Jan Woitas/dpa ...

Eighty-five days into a hunger strike, German environmental engineer and climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick had lost more than 61 pounds, his face and body were gaunt and his blood sugar was ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany's Christian Democrats, speaks to voters during an election campaign tour stop on February 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Credit - Photo by Maja ...

The public still wants action, but elections in the world’s third-biggest economy may stall progress. “The End of Germany’s Climate Crusade.” That’s how a Politico headline last week described the ...

Germany's new environment minister faces internal challenges in taking forward both domestic and international climate policy. But he is determined that it will not alter the country's carbon neutral ...

In two recent decisions, German courts have held claims of “climate neutrality” for consumer products to be misleading since they relied on compensation of CO2 by forest conservation projects. This ...

Germany is set to miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target, experts warned Monday, urging Berlin to swiftly overhaul a ...

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a chancellor who says green policy went too far. Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to build back better. Friedrich ...