Environment

Climate Change

Rinnovabili • AI emissions up 150% at Big Tech firms
Climate Change
AI fuels 150% surge in indirect emissions from Big Tech

Amazon leads the ranking with a 182% increase in indirect emissions between 2020 and 2023. Microsoft ranks second with a 155% rise, followed by Meta with 145%.

Rinnovabili • Marine heatwaves 2024: record highs in the southwest Pacific
Climate Change
UN: record-breaking marine heatwaves in 2024…

Marine heatwaves 2024 scorched over 10% of global ocean surface, with record…

Rinnovabili • World Environment Day 2025: Global Push to End Plastic Pollution
Environment
World Environment Day 2025 focuses on…

According to UN estimates, the equivalent of 2,000 truckloads of plastic enters…


Rinnovabili • soil-biodiversity
Environment
Changing climate destroys soil biodiversity

An experimental study by the University of Oklahoma, which lasted 7 years, monitored changes in the…

Rinnovabili • Water resources
Environment
The “Third Pole” melts: the imbalance of water resources in the Himalayas…

From the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush, 10 of the largest rivers in Asia are born.…

Rinnovabili • melting-glacier
Environment
Record melting for the most unstable glaciers in the South Pole

The Imperial College London study analyzes the behavior of the Thwaites and Pine Island glacial masses…

Rinnovabili • climate change
Environment
Climate change, the EU will create the perfect city

118 regions and local authorities have joined the EU Climate Change Adaptation Mission. Real change starts…

Rinnovabili • hurricane-season
Environment
A hurricane season above average approaches again in the Atlantic

The estimates of the American Noaa speak of 3-6 hurricanes of category 3 or superior, with…

Rinnovabili • climate disasters
Environment
Insurance companies are also unprepared for climate disasters

A study by Capgemini and Emsa takes a snapshot of how insurance companies prepare for a…

Rinnovabili • coral-reef
Environment
Mass death of corals, affected 91% of the coral reef

The first monitoring after the March-April bleaching event confirms the expectations. The damage to the reef…

Rinnovabili • Drought
Environment
Drought warning: for the UN humanity “is at a crossroads”

By 2030 extreme water scarcity could generate 700 million new climate migrants. Original news Second UN…

Rinnovabili • global-warming
Environment
Global warming, 50% chance of exceeding 1.5 ºC within 5 years

In 2015 the chances of exceeding the minimum threshold of the Paris agreement by 2026 were…

Rinnovabili • heat-waves
Environment
A study rewrites the ranking of the most intense heat waves ever

The assessment method used by the University of Bristol team is based on local temperature variability,…

Rinnovabili • carbon removal market
Environment
Towards a European standard for the voluntary carbon removal market

Today the market is in private hands, it has no shared rules, it guarantees little transparency.…

Rinnovabili • climate disasters
Environment
UN: We are underestimating the true impact of climate disasters

Over the past 20 years, extreme weather events have increased five-fold over the previous three decades.…