Danes: World's happiest and Europe's most wasteful?
Denmark's on a roll, returning to the top of the World Happiness Survey, but it's also gotten marks as Europe's most wasteful nation. Is that fair?
Denmark's on a roll, returning to the top of the World Happiness Survey, but it's also gotten marks as Europe's most wasteful nation. Is that fair?
A small Austrian town, tired of having its roadsides used as a litter dump by passing cars, has planted huge arrows where litter fell to shame the litterers.
Italy is about to join France in trying to turn food waste into a resource for those in need, but taking a different tack on incentives.
Conflicting trends face Norway: its mountain areas have grown in popularity, but climate change is challenging its future as a winter destination.
Norway will build bicycle expressways in 10 cities to make bicycle commuting more attractive and to reduce urban pollution.
Ian Cook takes us on a visit to Madeira's beautiful tropical Botanical Garden. A feast for the eyes, nourishment for the soul....
A children's drive to raise funds to buy an unspoiled island off Sardinia has led a woman to return the bag of sand she took from there years ago.
A pilot project in eastern France is turning wastes from cheese-making into marketable products, and into electric power.
Italian students at a middle school in the Italian Alps have started a crowdfunding campaign to buy an island.
Scheduled to open in 2018, Istanbul's new airport will feature the world's largest single terminal building, able to handle 90 million passengers a year.
In northwest China, the government is curbing 'glacier tourism' to protect the shrinking glaciers in an area where temperatures have been rising.
A French inventor believes his 'SeaBubble' can take traffic off the street and route it down the Seine to give Paris a new taxi alternative.
The five tiny towns of Italy's iconic Cinque Terre are among the world's most popular tourist attractions, but now local officials are saying "Enough!"
Copenhagen joins other European cities in experimenting with car-free days and other strategies to lower pollution and change city life.
Copenhagen, which is working on a goal of being CO2-neutral by 2025, has decided to remove its municipal funds from fossil-fuel industries.