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Crowds of young people joined the climate protests in Rome and other cities

Hundreds Of Thousands Join Children's Climate Strikes In Europe

Hundreds of thousands of youths demonstrated across European cities on Friday in the second in a global series of protests to avert a climate catastrophe.Waving signs and yelling slogans, schoolchildren and students in Italian cities were among those joining the latest "Friday for Future" rallies.Organisers said 200,000 people joined a march in Milan while another major rally snaked through the centre of Rome. Demos were called in some 180 Italian cities.

Winemaking In The Nordics, A World Away From French Chateau Luxe

Swedish winemaker Murre Sofrakis, 51, is one of the country's biggest winemakers
Making wine in the Nordic countries is far from the glamour associated with Europe's famed wine chateaux: here the sun is fickle, the season is short and diehard aficionados work up more sweat than wine but climate change is helping boost harvests.Worlds away from the thousand-year-old vineyards of continental Europe, winemaker Murre Sofrakis inspects his vines on this late summer's day, his eyes intently focused on the ripening grapes as he strolls along.
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