Coral reefs are small but mighty: covering less than 1% of the ocean floor, they support a quarter of all marine species. Up to 1 billion people also depend on reefs for food, storm protection – their structures reduce...
There are more than 800 huts around the Alps. One of them is Sewenhütte, in central Switzerland, at an altitude of 2,150 metres. I spoke to the hut guardians Ursula and Walter Gehrig about their food and waste managemen...
I'm moving apartments. As I was packing up, I found myself looking at my grey IKEA couch: the L-shaped one that can be turned into a bed. Why did I buy such a drab sofa? The contrast with the lively Art nouveau apartmen...
Germany's second largest supermarket chain, Rewe, told The European Correspondent its tofu sales have doubled over the past three or four years, and jumped another 30% in 2025. The issue is not a lack of soybeans; it's ...
It goes back to 25 July 1943, the day Mussolini was arrested. Word reached the antifascist Cervi family made up of a father and seven sons, from the province of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy. As an act of spontaneous j...
Ewa Braniecka is a Polish journalist and documentary producer based between Berlin, Copenhagen, and Kraków. She holds degrees in economics, business, and film production, and has worked across media, politics, and deep t...
That figure is nearly twice as high as in 1990, but adjusted for population growth, it represents an increase of 24% since then. Mental disorders are now the leading cause of disability, accounting for more than 17% of a...
“We’re trucking clean water, we’re giving them basic food, very basic healthcare, but nothing has been fixed in terms of improving the lives of Palestinians who’ve been suffering for so long and are still living in tents...
Baklava is a sweet pastry of layered filo dough filled with chopped nuts and soaked in sugar or honey syrup. It's popular across Türkiye, the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, with each country having its own v...
On 9 July, large wildfires swept across the province of Almería, Spain. Aided by strong winds and dry vegetation, the fires spread through an area the size of around 10,000 football fields. At the same time, a forest fi...
In my local supermarket, there are at least a couple of shelves dedicated to “nature” products. I take a pack of chicken wings: a label shouts in caps lock that what will probably be my dinner tonight is biological and w...
“Our teacher slept with a student in her third year of high school. He even brought her underwear to class. A classmate caught him in the teachers' lounge, looking at her nude photos. We reported everything. Also, he mak...
One TikTok of the footage has more than a million hits, and the clip has been shared widely by news organisations, left-wing parties, and civil society groups. Nothing creates content more likely to go viral than hate sp...
We’ve barely had time to recover from the spring fuel price spike caused by the US-Israel war on Iran, which saw diesel prices climb up to €2.43 per litre in April. Since starting to stabilise in May, the fuel market i...
In 2025, mishandled baggage cost airlines around the world over €5.5 billion. A single lost, damaged, or delayed bag costs an average of €228 in compensation payouts or extra operational activities – in Europe it reaches...
Europe might head in the same direction as East Asian countries like China, where more than 80% of young adults and teenagers have myopia, Sander Kneepkens told us. The ophthalmologist-in-training and author of a recent...
Who cares about the rule of law when you have drones?
Arctic ice reserves are the “refrigerator of the earth”, as Christian Haas puts it. He's a professor in geophysics at the University of Bremen and the head of the sea ice physics section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...
A tenant in Berlin can walk into a hardware store and buy a two-panel solar kit for about €300. Hang it on the balcony railing, plug it into the wall socket, and one online form registers it with the grid operator. Start...
Think about your last vacation: the hike you planned two weeks in advance, the fish you ate at that nice local restaurant, and the dinner outfit you ordered online from overseas, which arrived just in time to fit into yo...
First: it affects whether you marry someone from home or abroad. According to a Spanish on marriages between locals and foreigners, heterosexual Spaniards with lower levels of education tend to marry a non-Spanish person...
