Featured
Last news
!['Not crazy to be optimistic' on climate tech, Gates tells investors](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/77/2c/5b/-Not-crazy-to-be-optimistic--on-cli-195118_small.jpg)
'Not crazy to be optimistic' on climate tech, Gate...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday urged investors to get behind cutting-edge climate technologies he says would drive a...
![Woman firefighter on Brazil frontline after 2020 flames took her baby](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/e4/f4/22/Woman-firefighter-on-Brazil-frontli-115619_small.jpg)
Woman firefighter on Brazil frontline after 2020 f...
Debora dos Santos Avila used to resent firefighters for the death of her five-month-old baby in 2020, when she says he succumbed t...
!['Stress test': Olive oil producers adapt to climate change](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/34/9f/a1/-Stress-test---Olive-oil-producers--193919_small.jpg)
'Stress test': Olive oil producers adapt to climat...
Olive oil producers are improving irrigation and seeking new varieties of olives to safeguard production as climate change upends...
![Climate lawsuits against companies on the rise: report](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d1/a0/a9/Climate-lawsuits-against-companies--595815_small.jpg)
Climate lawsuits against companies on the rise: re...
Companies worldwide have faced mounting legal pressure to reduce their impact on global warming as activists use litigation to fig...
![In Aberdeen, climate and energy take centre stage in UK election](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/5c/81/0a/In-Aberdeen--climate-and-energy-tak-534165_small.jpg)
In Aberdeen, climate and energy take centre stage...
In Europe's oil and gas "capital", Aberdeen, voters are apprehensive about Labour's plans for combatting climate change if the opp...
![Climate protesters target UK's ruling Tories for second day running](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/0d/90/d5/Climate-protesters-target-UK-s-ruli-974111_small.jpg)
Climate protesters target UK's ruling Tories for s...
Demonstrators targeted the general election campaign of the UK's ruling Conservatives again Wednesday, with a Greenpeace activist...
![NGO denounces rising air freight pollution](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/e2/68/33/NGO-denounces-rising-air-freight-po-590444_small.jpg)
NGO denounces rising air freight pollution
An environmental pressure group denounced Wednesday the rising emissions of the air freight industry, which has been boosted by gl...
![First radioactive rhino horns to curb poaching in S.Africa](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/b9/1c/d8/First-radioactive-rhino-horns-to-cu-512137_small.jpg)
First radioactive rhino horns to curb poaching in...
South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border po...
![VW to invest $5 bn in EV maker Rivian, establishing joint venture](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/77/ef/4e/VW-to-invest--5-bn-in-EV-maker-Rivi-107599_small.jpg)
VW to invest $5 bn in EV maker Rivian, establishin...
German auto giant Volkswagen will invest $5 billion in US electric vehicle maker Rivian and create a joint venture expected to pro...
![Serbia prepared to make compromises with Kosovo: PM](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/ff/c4/dd/Serbia-prepared-to-make-compromises-909323_small.jpg)
Serbia prepared to make compromises with Kosovo: P...
Serbia's new government is prepared to make "compromises" over Kosovo, Prime Minister Milos Vucevic told AFP during a wide-ranging...
!['Urgent' for Australia to protect Great Barrier Reef: UNESCO](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/dc/59/39/-Urgent--for-Australia-to-protect-G-433132_small.jpg)
'Urgent' for Australia to protect Great Barrier Re...
Australia must take "urgent" action to protect the Great Barrier Reef, including setting more ambitious climate targets, the UN's...
![Sunbed wars: Greece tries to rein in beach chaos](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/59/0d/a9/Sunbed-wars--Greece-tries-to-rein-i-981619_small.jpg)
Sunbed wars: Greece tries to rein in beach chaos
The waves of the Aegean Sea lap gently at the tables and chairs of two beach restaurants on Greece's Halkidiki peninsula.
![Italy's Capri lifts tourist ban as water shortage resolved](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/39/60/b7/Italy-s-Capri-lifts-tourist-ban-as--186116_small.jpg)
Italy's Capri lifts tourist ban as water shortage...
The Italian island of Capri lifted a ban on tourists Saturday after problems with the water supply to the holiday hotspot were res...
![Hawaii agrees to 'historic' settlement in youth climate case](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/e3/e0/37/Hawaii-agrees-to--historic--settlem-418787_small.jpg)
Hawaii agrees to 'historic' settlement in youth cl...
The US state of Hawaii has reached an historic agreement in response to litigation by youth activists, promising to speed up the d...
![Hajj death toll tops 1,000 after extreme heat: AFP tally](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/38/g0/07/Hajj-death-toll-tops-1-000-after-ex-741004_small.jpg)
Hajj death toll tops 1,000 after extreme heat: AFP...
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said Thursday, more than half unregistered worshippers who p...
![UK inflation slows to central bank's 2% target](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/b7/dc/ee/UK-inflation-slows-to-central-bank--184742_small.jpg)
UK inflation slows to central bank's 2% target
British inflation slowed in May to the central bank's two-percent target, official data showed Wednesday, boosting Prime Minister...
![Power demand peaks in northern India heatwave](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2f/5f/bd/Power-demand-peaks-in-northern-Indi-103871_small.jpg)
Power demand peaks in northern India heatwave
Searing heatwave temperatures in northern India pushed power demand to a record high, the government said Tuesday, with residents...
![Pressure on cholera vaccine stocks 'decreasing': Gavi alliance](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/19/f5/d1/Pressure-on-cholera-vaccine-stocks--168868_small.jpg)
Pressure on cholera vaccine stocks 'decreasing': G...
A resurgence of cholera across Africa has driven an urgent need for more vaccine doses, but stock shortages have hampered the figh...
![Lula calls for 'agility' in combatting Amazon deforestation crime](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/86/45/c0/Lula-calls-for--agility--in-combatt-788071_small.jpg)
Lula calls for 'agility' in combatting Amazon defo...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for flexibility and speed in combatting criminal organizations that are defor...
![California blaze raises fears for dangerous wildfire season](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d0/3e/54/California-blaze-raises-fears-for-d-771688_small.jpg)
California blaze raises fears for dangerous wildfi...
California firefighters on Monday tackled the state's biggest blaze of the year so far, as fears intensify over ominous conditions...
![Austria's support gets EU biodiversity law over the line](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c3/26/f3/Austria-s-support-gets-EU-biodivers-915144_small.jpg)
Austria's support gets EU biodiversity law over th...
EU member countries on Monday gave final approval to a key biodiversity measure, a bloc-wide nature restoration law, after Austria...
![Illegal gold mining eats into Peruvian Amazon](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/5e/26/1d/Illegal-gold-mining-eats-into-Peruv-478478_small.jpg)
Illegal gold mining eats into Peruvian Amazon
On the banks of the Madre de Dios river, dredges work day and night in search of gold, part of a scourge of illegal mining that is...
![Water crisis batters war-torn Sudan as temperatures soar](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/47/39/d5/Water-crisis-batters-war-torn-Sudan-212547_small.jpg)
Water crisis batters war-torn Sudan as temperature...
War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan -- a nation already facing a litany of horrors -- to the shores of a...
![Experts, activists slam 'pointless' G7 on climate](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/1f/e5/e8/Experts--activists-slam--pointless--538073_small.jpg)
Experts, activists slam 'pointless' G7 on climate
The Group of Seven rich democracies have failed to deliver significant new progress on climate during a summit in Italy, instead r...
![North Macedonia's beekeepers face climate change challenge](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d9/39/d5/North-Macedonia-s-beekeepers-face-c-535841_small.jpg)
North Macedonia's beekeepers face climate change c...
Every day, Magda Miloseska dons a white, protective suit and enters the domain of the honeybees in the backyard of her small weeke...
![Sea swamps Bangladesh at one of world's fastest rates](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2c/58/42/Sea-swamps-Bangladesh-at-one-of-wor-848814_small.jpg)
Sea swamps Bangladesh at one of world's fastest ra...
After cyclone gales tore down his home in 2007, Bangladeshi fisherman Abdul Aziz packed up what was left of his belongings and mov...
![Thousands of fish dead as lake dries in Mexican drought](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2a/96/2e/Thousands-of-fish-dead-as-lake-drie-824417_small.jpg)
Thousands of fish dead as lake dries in Mexican dr...
Thousands of fish have died as a lagoon in northern Mexico partly dried up amid a crippling drought plaguing the country.
![Brazil's Lula defends oil exploration near Amazon River](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/dc/4b/24/Brazil-s-Lula-defends-oil-explorati-418171_small.jpg)
Brazil's Lula defends oil exploration near Amazon...
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that a controversial offshore oil exploration plan near the mouth of t...
![Underwater gardeners plant eelgrass to save 'dead' Danish fjord](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/71/82/07/Underwater-gardeners-plant-eelgrass-171171_small.jpg)
Underwater gardeners plant eelgrass to save 'dead'...
Under a white tent on the shores of a polluted Danish fjord, volunteers and researchers prepare slender green shoots of eelgrass t...
![Ancient Greek sanctuary slowly sinks into the Aegean Sea](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/43/6d/55/Ancient-Greek-sanctuary-slowly-sink-111751_small.jpg)
Ancient Greek sanctuary slowly sinks into the Aege...
A brief boat ride from the thrumming nightclubs of Mykonos lies the UNESCO heritage site of Delos, one of the most important sanct...
![Animals killed as fire rips through Bangkok pet market](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/13/7f/2e/Animals-killed-as-fire-rips-through-548870_small.jpg)
Animals killed as fire rips through Bangkok pet ma...
A fire ripped through pet shops next to Bangkok's famed Chatuchak market early Tuesday, killing caged dogs, cats, birds and snakes...
![Green parties suffer EU poll drubbing](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/bf/1f/c2/Green-parties-suffer-EU-poll-drubbi-334701_small.jpg)
Green parties suffer EU poll drubbing
Green parties suffered major losses in the EU elections, particularly in France and Germany, hit by growing discontent at the bloc...