Environment

Rinnovabili • UN High Seas Treaty may take effect by January 2025
Climate Change
UN High Seas Treaty set to take effect in January 2026

In Nice, delegations from 120 countries, including more than 50 heads of state and government, gathered with the goal of saving the ailing ocean.

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

Amazon leads the ranking with a 182% increase in indirect emissions between…

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 • Air Conditioning: More Emissions, More Inequality
Scientific Reports
Air Conditioning: More Emissions, More Inequality

A CMCC study maps the growing inequalities driven by the increased use of air conditioning due…

Rinnovabili • Climate change: the degradation of the cryosphere generates tsunamis
Climate Change
Climate change: the degradation of the cryosphere generates tsunamis

The glacier retreat caused by rising temperatures led to a rockslide of 25 million cubic meters…

Rinnovabili • Antarctic Glaciers
Climate Change
Antarctic Glaciers: Decisions Today Will Shape Their Fate in 300 Years

We are making decisions today that will determine the future of Antarctica's glaciers 300 years from…

Rinnovabili • Planetary Boundaries
Climate Change
Planetary Boundaries: How to Make the Future Fair as Well as Safe

Integrating equity into the historical concept of Planetary Boundaries—this is the goal of a groundbreaking study…

Rinnovabili • Microplastics in Seawater
Pollution
How to Precisely Identify Microplastics in Seawater

A new method for removing plankton from particles is facilitating the monitoring of microplastics in seawater.

Rinnovabili • Global Warming
Climate Change
Global Warming: Summer 2024 is the Hottest on Record

With August, we now have 13 months exceeding 1.5°C over the last 14 months. From January…

Rinnovabili • Marine Protected Areas
Water Management
80% of Marine Protected Areas in Europe Are Ineffective

Most marine areas with restrictions on human activities fail to significantly reduce the pressure on marine…

Rinnovabili • Data center emissions
Pollution
Data center emissions: by 2030 they will pollute as much as India

Morgan Stanley forecasts that the surge in large-scale data centers will significantly increase their emissions, reaching…

Rinnovabili • Cost of the climate change
Climate Change
Cost of the climate change in Africa already nears 9% of GDP

Extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and intense, along with the need to adapt…

Rinnovabili • CO2 Capture and Storage
Climate Change
Realistic Global Capacity for CO2 Capture and Storage: New Study Reveals Limits

A study published in Nature Communications provides an estimate of the global maximum capacity for CO2…

Rinnovabili • Forest ecosystems and climate change
Climate Change
Forest ecosystems and climate change

Is it possible to protect forest ecosystems from the effects of climate change? A study has…

Rinnovabili • Remove nanoplastics
Pollution
Remove nanoplastics from water with an efficiency of 98%

Create a new technology capable of removing nanoplastics from contaminated water, with an efficiency close to…