In Germany, suspicions of possible biological or chemical contamination of water supplied to a Bundeswehr base have arisen for the third time, this time in the city of Mechernich, DW reports.

But new research by scientists in Germany and the Netherlands has found that if harmful nitrogen pollution is factored in, the number of areas considered water scarce increases dramatically. "In ...

Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988. Foot-and-mouth ...