Europe

"The European Commission has developed its own evidence to avoid an overly stringent regulation of these hazardous substances."

"Resembling an aircraft hangar, a giant arched shelter was slid into place over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine on Tuesday. The shelter, the world’s largest land-based moving structure, is a feat of engineering decades in conception and years in the making."

"Every year for over a thousand years, hundreds of pilot whales have been rounded up, cornered and slaughtered by hand on the beaches of the Faroe Islands."

"A huge shelter has begun making its way to Chernobyl nuclear reactor No. 4."

"The German cabinet has approved a draft law banning cultivation of crops with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), government sources told Reuters on Wednesday."

"UK water companies are urging the national trading standards body to help stamp out “misleading” labelling on disposable wet wipes that are marketed as flushable but clog up drains and litter oceans at huge environmental cost."

"At least two people died and six were severely injured on Monday in an explosion and fire at chemicals maker BASF's biggest production site in Germany, the company said."

"Trees believed to have been extinct in Britain have been discovered at the Queen’s official residence in Scotland."

"Spill 46 miles off Shetland is being monitored by air and said to be heading away from land and dispersing".