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 • Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to worsen?
Climate Change
Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to…

A new study from the JRC examines the effects of climate change on temperature-related morbidity and…

Rinnovabili • microplastic pollution
Pollution
How microplastic pollution destroys coastal plants

Goodbye coastal ecosystems: the combined impact of microplastic pollution and floods caused by climate change is…

Rinnovabili • Record temperature for the Mediterranean
Climate Change
Record temperature for the Mediterranean with an average daily climb of 30…

On 15 August a record average temperature for the Mediterranean Sea of 28.9°C was recorded, higher…

Rinnovabili • Amazon forest
Environment
The greatest danger to the Amazon forest is not deforestation

A PNAS study provides the first accurate estimate of the specific impact of the various anthropological…

Rinnovabili • health of oceans
Climate Change
Financing a research programme to safeguard the health of oceans and corals

Protecting corals and the health of the oceans is the goal of the Big Ideas for…

Rinnovabili • remove heavy metals from water
Water Management
So nature teaches science how to remove heavy metals from water

An international team of researchers has figured out how to remove heavy metals from water by…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Climate Change
July pushes 2024 to new global warming record

Data from the European satellite system Copernicus set the global warming for January-July 2024 at +1,58…

Rinnovabili • Extreme heat deaths
Environment
Extreme heat deaths: 175 000 deaths per year in Europe

Europe is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. It alone accounts…

Rinnovabili • emission ceiling
Pollution
China to set emission ceiling from 2026

So far, Beijing has only set emission and energy intensity targets, linking greenhouse gases and economic…

Rinnovabili • European lithium production
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…

Rinnovabili • Earth Overshoot Day
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…

Rinnovabili • In 2023 Earth's carbon sink will collapse
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…