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European airlines are set to benefit from €26bn of bailouts with governments failing to impose environmental conditions, according to analysis by green groups

Sales of electric cars were boosted in the first quarter of 2020 despite a slump in combustion engine passenger vehicles triggered by the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis

Madrid city council will reopen its public cycle-hire scheme Bicimad this week, following more than a month’s closure, in recognition of ‘the fundamental role of the bicycle as an alternative means of mobility in the current crisis’, the council announced last Friday

The head of the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned that the economic shutdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic could make sustainability more difficult to achieve, despite new data released by the agency showing dramatic reductions in air pollution in locked-down cities

Italian academics and experts have dismissed claims of a direct link between the spread of Covid-19 and high concentrations of particulate matter in the atmosphere