May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Climate_change":
National: 15 May 12
A new round of global climate talks opened in Bonn on Monday with rich and poor countries squaring off over greenhouse gas reduction targets to halt the pace of planet warming.
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Society: 19 Mar 12
Hay fever, which affects one in five Germans, has struck early this year as an unusually warm weekend kick-started pollen production, setting noses running and eyes watering weeks ahead of schedule.
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Travel: 29 Feb 12
You don’t have to be a gap-year graduate to jump on board and enjoy the InterRail experience today. Travelling around Europe by train can be appreciated by everyone – whatever your age.
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National: 30 Jan 12
Germany’s plan to put a million electric cars on the road by 2020 is unlikely to do much for the environment without a dramatic increase in renewable energy, the daily Tageszeitung reported on Monday.
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Politics: 14 Dec 11
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday a "true political union" was emerging after European leaders backed tighter budget policing but she warned the euro crisis would take years to resolve.
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Science & Technology: 14 Nov 11
A scientist at the University of Kiel has warned of summer temperatures reaching nearly 50 degrees Celsius in Germany if global warming continues.
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Society: 20 Oct 11
The Rainbow Warrior III, Greenpeace’s brand new ship, docked in Hamburg on Thursday, where it will be opened to visitors over the weekend to celebrate its launch and maiden voyage.
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Politics: 15 Sep 11
Renate Künast is hoping to be elected the first Green mayor of Berlin on Sunday. The Local's friends at English-language magazine Exberliner spoke to her about her priorities for the German capital.
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Lifestyle: 18 Aug 11
This Week's Highlights: A virtual wall in Berlin, Italian art in Cologne, and Frankfurt celebrates African culture.
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Science & Technology: 16 Aug 11
Tests are underway to find out what species would be best as the next generation of Germany’s street trees. As every year urban trees are subject to pollution, poor water conditions and limited root growth area many become sick.
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Society: 22 Jul 11
German winemaking has long banished the horrors of the Blue Nun and Black Tower – these days Riesling is coveted around the globe. But, as Hannah Cleaver discovers, don’t expect to find a good bottle at your supermarket.
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Politics: 21 Jul 11
The United Nations Security Council has declared that global warming is a threat to world peace and stability, in what has been greeted as a diplomatic triumph by the current council chair Germany.
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National: 13 Jul 11
The German government wants to encourage the construction of new coal and gas power plants with millions of euros from a fund for promoting clean energy and combating climate change.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jul 11
Scientists in Saxony have discovered 290-million-year-old fossil skeletons of a previously unknown, tree-dwelling lizard species in a perfectly preserved petrified forest that casts new light on the habits of ancient reptiles.
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National: 3 Jul 11
Berlin hosts an international gathering on climate change on Sunday to prepare the ground for the United Nations summit in South Africa.
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Science & Technology: 21 Jun 11
Sea levels have risen faster since the industrial revolution than at any time in the past 2,000 years, a study co-authored by a prominent German climate scientist has found.
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National: 18 Jun 11
New talks on global warming ended in Bonn on Friday with the UN's climate chief calling on world leaders to help resolve the fate of the Kyoto Protocol ahead of a key meeting six months down the road.
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Science & Technology: 10 Jun 11
As the climate grows warmer, flowers are blooming earlier in the spring and this year many German honeybees awoke to find many blossoms already gone. Researchers are working to find out why.
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National: 31 May 11
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany could serve as a global trailblazer with its decision Monday to phase out nuclear power by 2022 but France, Europe's biggest producer, said it will not follow suit.
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National: 30 May 11
Out with the old, in with the renewable. With Germany's nuclear exit date now set at 2022, the country is about to embark on a decade of energy reform. Can it be done? The Local asked energy expert Marcel Viëtor.
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National: 25 May 11
Germany can expect significantly more violent weather in the coming years due to climate change, according to a new study from the Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam.
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Society: 4 May 11
A specially composed opera with a difference premiered in a Berlin swimming pool this week, with singers performing in and out and even under the water.
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Society: 25 Apr 11
A growing population of harbour porpoises in the Weser River has captured the attention of animal lovers across northwest Germany, while biologists are gathering information to aid protection efforts.
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Society: 1 Apr 11
Berlin Zoo's superstar polar bear Knut died from drowning after swelling in the brain caused him to collapse and fall into the pool in his enclosure, preliminary autopsy results showed Friday.
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Society: 1 Apr 11
The skinless body of Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut will be plasticized and put on display by the notorious German anatomist Gunther von Hagens known as “Dr Death” – zoo officials announced on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 31 Mar 11
The condensation trails caused by aircraft may be warming the planet more on any given day than all the carbon dioxide that planes have pumped out since aviation began, German scientists have found.
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Business & Money: 29 Mar 11
Germany has outpaced the United States as the number two player in clean energy while China keeps racing ahead as the world's green investment leader, a study said Tuesday.
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National: 16 Feb 11
Germany faces a soggy future of extreme rainfall and flooding in the coming decades caused by climate change, according to the country's leading meteorologists and disaster protection officials.
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Politics: 1 Feb 11
German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week urged Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to seek a swift revival of peace talks with the Palestinians, citing regional unrest as cause for urgency.
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National: 31 Jan 11
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday at the start of a two-day visit that will include a joint German-Israeli cabinet meeting.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Jan 11
Germans like meat. But if the whole world ate like them, we'd need at least two planets to feed everyone. A proper Sunday roast free of toxic feed could be the answer, says Der Tagesspiegel’s Dagmar Dehmer.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Jan 11
Germany has taken its seat on the UN Security Council this week touting an ambitious agenda. Some of this will end in disappointment, experts warn. But there is still much Berlin can achieve.
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National: 13 Dec 10
German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen has stepped up expectations for climate change action in Europe, calling on neighbours to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2020.
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National: 11 Dec 10
German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen waxed positive Saturday on the outcome of United Nations climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, saying the negotiations had "fulfilled expectations."
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Politics: 9 Dec 10
With just two days left at the UN climate change summit in Cancún, Mexico, German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen appealed to the leaders to see climate protection as an economic opportunity, not a burden.
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Science & Technology: 6 Dec 10
German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen said Monday he does not expect any breakthroughs at the ongoing UN climate change summit in Cancún, Mexico. Instead leaders should focus on implementing small steps, he said.
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Politics: 24 Nov 10
A British eurosceptic member of the European Parliament was booted from the chamber on Wednesday morning for hurling Nazi comparisons at a German MEP.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Nov 10
The popular Greens aim to take over Berlin's city hall in 2011. But Roger Boyes, Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, warns they must implement the necessary “eco-dictatorship” on a tight budget in the debt-ridden capital.
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National: 17 Nov 10
The coming winters could be particularly cold in Germany and Northern Europe due to the impact of climate change, weather experts in Potsdam warned this week.
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National: 29 Oct 10
Worried Deutsche Bahn's rail network would fail in the case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, the German government reportedly wants the firm to build some 40 underground crisis centres around the country.
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Society: 22 Oct 10
Not everyone has the gift of rhythm and grace, but rarely has that fact been celebrated. A group of Hamburg hipsters plans to change that this weekend with what they call the Ugly Dance World Cup.
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Politics: 12 Oct 10
Germany led furious last-minute lobbying to get one of five seats on the UN Security Council to be decided in a vote on Tuesday.
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National: 2 Oct 10
Ailing former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, regarded as the father of German unity, warned the country again faces daunting hurdles Friday in a rare address to his party to mark 20 years since unification.
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National: 26 Sep 10
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, continuing his campaign for Germany to have a seat on the decision-making Security Council.
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Politics: 23 Sep 10
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Thursday that Berlin would make global disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation priorities should Germany gain a seat on the UN Security Council.
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Politics: 7 Sep 10
Germany’s plan to extend the lives of its nuclear reactors has upset neighbouring Austria, where a environmental official has warned that a reactor near the border poses clear “safety risks.”
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Society: 2 Sep 10
Vegetarian activists exposed their hoax on the German media on Thursday, revealing a new Berlin restaurant supposedly looking for human 'donors' was a public relations stunt to highlight the human cost of eating meat.
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Science & Technology: 23 Aug 10
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday questioned whether mankind was to blame for climate change during a visit to the remote Arctic – only to be bluntly contradicted by a German scientist.
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National: 15 Jul 10
Germany, France and Britain on Thursday jointly called for the European Union to deepen its planned reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions from 20 to 30 percent by 2020.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jul 10
The winter may have been long and cold this year in Germany, but that won’t stop a blood-thirsty plague of mosquitoes from hitting the country this summer, according to bug experts.
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National: 26 Jun 10
Germany will not deliver the financial aid to help developing countries deal with climate change it promised at the Copenhagen climate summit last December, media reports say.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 10
This Week's Highlights: John Malkovich plays a serial killer in Hamburg, Rufus Wainright sings in Munich, and electric Smart cars buzz around Berlin.
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Lifestyle: 7 May 10
The Local's series Abgefahren drives into the future with Smart's new electric two-seater, which carmaker Daimler hopes will help reshape urban mobility.
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National: 4 May 10
The highest octane political gathering on climate since the Copenhagen summit collapsed into near failure has helped restore trust but delivered no big breakthroughs, German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen said on Tuesday.
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Politics: 3 May 10
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Sunday urged world environment ministers "to find a basis of trust" before the next UN meet in Cancun, recalling the near-collapse of the Copenhagen climate summit.
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Politics: 30 Apr 10
More than three dozen environment ministers are to meet near Bonn this weekend in a bid to revive global climate talks left mangled and moribund after the UN summit in Copenhagen.
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Science & Technology: 27 Apr 10
The German Weather Service (DWD) said on Tuesday Germany faced serious threats from climate change and warned policy makers from abandoning efforts to combat global warming.
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Science & Technology: 15 Apr 10
Continental Europe and Britain are likely to see more unusually cold winters like last season due to low solar activity, according to a new study by British and German researchers published on Thursday.
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National: 12 Apr 10
Rich and poor nations squabbled in Bonn at the weekend over the controversial Copenhagen climate accord amid warnings the battered UN system could not afford another failure in its quest to tackle global warming.
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Science & Technology: 9 Apr 10
Hopes of hoisting the UN process for tackling climate change out of the mire after December's flawed Copenhagen summit suffered early setbacks at talks in Bonn, Germany on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 8 Apr 10
Germany has long been a leader in “green” technologies, but it’s facing growing competition from around the globe. In a special report for The Local, Sally McGrane examines the energy challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
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Business & Money: 7 Apr 10
German carmaker Daimler on Wednesday launched a new partnership with France's Renault and Japan's Nissan aimed at saving billions of euros and accelerating sales of environmentally friendly electric cars.
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National: 1 Apr 10
German Chancellor Angela Merkel held telephone talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday on Iran's nuclear programme and international climate policy, her office said.
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Science & Technology: 27 Mar 10
Germans are losing their fear of climate change, according to a survey, with just 42 percent worried about global warming.
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Science & Technology: 10 Mar 10
An entrepreneurial German physicist has created artificial “glaciers” in the Black Forest with the aim of boosting Alpine tourism and providing water supplies in the age of climate change.
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National: 14 Jan 10
Japan and Germany agreed Thursday to work together on climate change, nuclear disarmament and rebuilding Afghanistan during a Tokyo visit by Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 10
As 2010 begins, Dr. Jackson Janes from the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies explores how differing political priorities in Berlin and Washington could affect the transatlantic relationship this year.
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Business & Money: 31 Dec 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned in a New Year's television address to be broadcast on Thursday that the effects of the country's worst post-war recession would drag into 2010.
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National: 29 Dec 09
Munich Re, a leading global re-insurance group based in Germany, said Tuesday that natural catastrophes took many fewer lives and caused much less damage on average in 2009 than in the previous decade's average.
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Business & Money: 21 Dec 09
Global warming and the mediocre outcome at Copenhagen aren't daunting Bavarian ski resorts. Rather, in keeping with the cold spell of recent days, they are pouring investment money into Germany's southern slopes.
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National: 19 Dec 09
Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed thinly veiled dismay at the modest outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference, but vowed to press on via a new summit to be held in Germany in six months’ time.
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National: 17 Dec 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday the outcome of the climate summit in Copenhagen did "not look promising" but hoped the arrival of world leaders at the meeting would unblock negotiations.
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National: 16 Dec 09
A German police union on Wednesday called for the creation of a European database of violent demonstrators following incidents on the fringes of the UN global warming talks.
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National: 15 Dec 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she was "somewhat nervous" that an impasse at the Copenhagen climate talks could nix hopes of a comprehensive deal by the end of the week.
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National: 14 Dec 09
As the second week of negotiations at the climate conference in Copenhagen began on Monday, developing nations accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of blocking progress with stingy financial contributions.
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Science & Technology: 10 Dec 09
Scientists in Hamburg on Thursday unveiled the world's most powerful weather supercomputer that they hope will provide critical data on global warming for international efforts to combat climate change.
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Politics: 6 Dec 09
Germany's environment minister said the Copenhagen climate summit would fail if nations did not agree to a maximum two-degree rise in Earth's temperature, in an interview published on Sunday.
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Politics: 3 Dec 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday they did not expect a perfect agreement at the Copenhagen climate summit but foresaw a major step forward.
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National: 1 Dec 09
Philip Murphy, the US ambassador to Germany, has called on Berlin to work closely with Washington to together to tackle challenges ranging from Afghanistan to global warming.
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Business & Money: 26 Nov 09
Natural disasters linked to climate change could cost the insurance industry billions of dollars in extra settlement payments every year, German insurance giant Munich Re said Thursday.
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Business & Money: 20 Nov 09
Germany's ambitious plans to fight climate change will cost Europe's largest economy €310 billion, Manager Magazin reported on Friday.
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National: 18 Nov 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that crunch UN climate talks in Copenhagen next month must lay the groundwork for a binding international pact to be signed in the first half of 2010.
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National: 11 Nov 09
Irish singer and political activist Bob Geldof criticised the German government’s foreign aid plans on Wednesday, calling them inadequate after meeting with new Development Minister Dirk Niebel for almost an hour.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 09
The Local’s German media roundup surveys the overwhelmingly positive response to Chancellor Angela Merkel's historic address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 4 Nov 09
The head of US firm General Electric applauded German industry on Wednesday as an example for American businesses to follow, in a reversal of the usual direction of praise.
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Politics: 3 Nov 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel used a historic address to the US Congress on Tuesday to issue a heartfelt plea to combat climate change, likening the problem to a second Berlin Wall.
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Politics: 3 Nov 09
Chancellor Angela Merkel will deliver a major speech to the US Congress on Tuesday, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and as the transatlantic alliance faces new challenges including Afghanistan and climate change.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Nov 09
Angela Merkel’s speech to the US Congress on Tuesday is an honour for both the chancellor and Berlin. But her trip to Washington comes at a price, believes Dr. Josef Braml from the German Council on Foreign Relations.
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Politics: 30 Oct 09
Germany plans to cut off millions of euros in foreign aid to emerging economic giant China, the new development minister Dirk Niebel told daily Bild on Friday.
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Sport: 24 Oct 09
Some 1,500 skiers and snowboarders defied the climate change doomsayers to usher in the new season on Germany's highest mountain on Saturday, where over a metre of snow has already fallen.
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Politics: 12 Oct 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would press Chinese officials on human rights ahead of talks on Monday with the country's possible next president.
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Business & Money: 29 Sep 09
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government likely to extend or even roll back Germany’s phase-out of nuclear power, daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Tuesday the country’s energy countries stand to make billions.
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National: 12 Sep 09
Two German cargo ships are making their way through the Northeast Passage from Asia to Europe, writing maritime history, but also inadvertently delivering evidence of climate change and melting ice caps.
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National: 1 Sep 09
Demonstrators from the environmentalist group Greenpeace on Tuesday scaled the large columns on the façade of the Reichstag building, home to the German parliament, to attach an anti-nuclear energy banner.
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Politics: 28 Aug 09
Greens in Washington DC have founded the first chapter of a German political party in the United States ahead of September’s national election. The grass-roots initiative hopes to encourage absentee voting by Germans abroad.
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Society: 19 Aug 09
Madonna’s only German show in her current tour went down like a storm in Munich on Tuesday evening, with fans singing Happy Birthday to the singer and throwing balloons onto the stage to celebrate her recent 51st birthday.
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Science & Technology: 18 Aug 09
Germany’s biggest solar park officially goes on the grid on Thursday. Politicians are raving over the project, but environmentalists aren't so sure.
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National: 24 Jul 09
One of Germany's most modern nuclear power stations was shut down on Friday due to a technical fault, operator RWE said, less than three weeks after problems at another reactor hit the headlines.
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National: 9 Jul 09
Chancellor Angela Merkel called the Group of Eight’s consensus on fighting climate change a “clear step forward” late on Wednesday after talks in L’Aquila, Italy.
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National: 8 Jul 09
A German nuclear power station that underwent an "emergency shutdown" at the weekend will remain offline until April or May 2010 while repairs are carried out, its Swedish operator has said.
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