Amazon rainforest fires: What role for Europe?

Norway is expected to export nearly 90 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas to the European Union, nearly 25% of its expected gas needs this year, according to forecasts from energy consultancy Rystad. Exports to Britain could reach 36 bcm, nearly 50% of the country's total gas demand.

The continent has seen temperatures rise at a rate more than double that of the rest of the world over the past thirty years. At the same time, European countries had significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

After Meta and Twitter, Amazon is the latest e-commerce giant looking to reduce its payroll. Reports in The New York Times and other outlets say this is part of the company's drive to cut any lossmaking or underperforming units. The job cuts, which could represent as much as 3 percent of the group's corporate workforce, would be the largest in Amazon's history.

Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has promised "zero deforestation" in the Amazon. Can he gather enough support at COP27 to preserve the "lungs of the planet."

A photoshopped magazine cover from Stern magazine, features Ursula von der Leyen as 'Europe's most criminal woman.' While the publication does exist, the real cover features Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, not Ursula von der Leyen. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.

A two-day strike by local taxi associations began in Cape Town on Monday. But as commuters queued for buses, two were set ablaze.

The European Union's environment watchdog has reported 238,000 premature deaths in the bloc in 2020 due to air pollution.

A blaze in a high-rise building has killed 10 people in the Xinjiang region of China. Nine others have been injured but are said to be stable.

It's one emergency the EU didn’t need. Already dealing with a war on its doorstep, an energy crisis and rising inflation, the handling of the Ocean Viking – a ship carrying migrants rescued in the Mediterranean – starkly showed the limits of European solidarity.

Myanmar's ruling military junta has issued new rules making it harder for foreign aid groups to operate in the country. NGO's will need to adapt their strategies to reach those in need.

The White House has condemned former President Donald Trump for hosting a known white supremacist at this estate in Florida. Trump has a history of failing to condemn hate speech.

A Swiss company has built what is being called a giant water battery deep under the Alps that provides energy storage capacity equivalent to 400,000 electric car batteries. It could be a game-changer.