Germany’s Greens party have soared in popularity in the last year to levels around 20 percent — double the amount they got in the last federal election. Greens co-chairman Cem Oezdemir explains why the party that pushes renewable energy and eschews nuclear power is doing so well in one of the world’s leading industrial nations.

Germany has been the world’s leading producer of solar power. But that could change now that the new centre-right government has slashed the feed-in tariff that utilities pay to producers of photovoltaic energy.

Germany’s Greens party celebrate their 30th birthday on Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010. The party has become one of the country’s most powerful political forces and is the world’s most successful environmental party.

As a trained physicist, Angela Merkel knows scientific findings and political negotiations don’t always mix well.

More than 30,000 activists marched to protest against climate change in Copenhagen on Saturday. They said they hope that world leaders got the message they need to take action now.

There’s no concierge, no bellboy nor even a check-in counter. There’s no lobby, nor mini-bar and not even any heating.

Thousands of protesters take trains to Copenhagen from across Europe. But why are planes, which produce so much more greenhouse gas emissions than trains, cheaper?

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Germany’s top climate change researcher and an advisor to the government, hopes he and other scientists have got it wrong on climate change but he is increasingly worried about the trauma his infant son, and future generations, will face due to climate change.

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions with photovoltaic systems has become something of an obsession for Reuters journalist Erik Kirschbaum.

Two German ships sail through the ice-cold but briefly ice-free Northeast Passage on Russia’s Arctic-facing northern shore during a two-month window that opened up in August this year due to climate change.

Two German ships set off on Friday on the first commercial journey from Asia to western Europe via the Arctic through the fabled Northeast Passage.

Never mind the Green Revolution — the real reason for me commuting to work by bike is much simpler: I’m a cheapskate and cycling saves money.

In Germany, where many consider their cars sacred and most politicians on both the left and right refuse to consider tampering with the unlimited speed on the Autobahn for fear of hurting the car industry, the leader of the Greens party said it is high time for the country to join the rest of the civilised world and put an upper limit on Autobahn speeds — to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The idea to tap solar power from the Sahara desert to provide CO2-free electricity for Europe and northern Africa has captured the public’s imagination in Germany after the Desertec Industrial Initiative was formally launched in Munich on Monday. Several German commentators compared the notion of catching the sun’s rays in the Sahara to the boldness [...]

A “gold-rush-like” buzz has spread across Germany in the last week over tentative plans to invest the staggering sum of 400 billion euros to harvest solar power in the Sahara for energy users across Europe and northern Africa. Even though European and Mediterranean Union leaders have been exploring and studying for several years the idea [...]