Environment

Pollution
Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of the world’s farmland
Nearly 1.4 billion people live on land contaminated by toxic metals. According to a new study, 17% of the world’s agricultural land may be polluted. For the…
Editorial Team•23 April 2025

Climate Change
Earth Day 2025: Spotlight on Renewable…
On April 22, millions around the world will unite to celebrate Earth…
Editorial Team•22 April 2025

Scientific Reports
Electrochemical iron production: how competitive is…
Green iron production via electrochemistry cuts emissions and costs. Porosity is key…
Editorial Team•21 April 2025

Pollution
Protests against Serbian mine to support European lithium production
While Fiat launches a plant for the electric Panda in Serbia, the European lithium production mine…
Editorial Team•3 August 2024

Environment
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024: we consume 1.75 Planets per year
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024. Global ecological debt has been stable for a decade. But…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024

Climate Change
In 2023 Earth’s carbon sink will collapse
By 2022, terrestrial ecosystems that naturally capture and store CO2 had absorbed 9.5 billion tonnes. Last…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024

Environment
Global warming: 2024 will be the warmest year ever
After the first 6 months of the year that marked new primates of heat, 2024 is…
Editorial Team•29 July 2024

Water Management
Deep-sea mining will leave the ocean bottom without oxygen
A study led by the Scottish Association for Marine Science and conducted in the Clarion Clipperton…
Editorial Team•26 July 2024

Water Management
Pesticides in drinking water, how to reduce contamination risks
How many pesticides does our drinking water contain? In the conventional treatment of drinking water, activated…
Editorial Team•18 July 2024

Pollution
The threat of PFAS in lithium batteries
The battle for decarbonisation may have shadow cones. This is the case of PFAS in lithium…
Editorial Team•16 July 2024

Environment
We’ve had a whole year with global warming surpassing 1.5°C
Last month, globally, it was 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial average, and in Europe the global…
Editorial Team•8 July 2024

Climate Change
$21 billion to finance climate crisis adaptation in 700 global cities
More than 80% of the more than 1,100 cities that disclose data on their climate performance…
Editorial Team•5 July 2024

Pollution
Canadian wildfires in 2023 polluted 4 times more than all aircraft
The new estimates provided by the World Resource Institute set at around 3 GtCO2 the emissions…
Editorial Team•1 July 2024

Environment
In 30 years, extreme heat in metropolises has increased by 52%
In 20 of the world’s most populous capitals, where more than 300 million people live, between…
Editorial Team•28 June 2024

Water Management
Class action against microplastics in bottled water in USA
Consumer groups are calling in companies for microplastics in bottled water not declared originally