Environment

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.
Editorial Team•11 June 2025

Climate Change
AI fuels 150% surge in indirect…
Amazon leads the ranking with a 182% increase in indirect emissions between…
Editorial Team•9 June 2025

Climate Change
UN: record-breaking marine heatwaves in 2024…
Marine heatwaves 2024 scorched over 10% of global ocean surface, with record…
Editorial Team•6 June 2025

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…
Editorial Team•26 August 2024

Pollution
How microplastic pollution destroys coastal plants
Goodbye coastal ecosystems: the combined impact of microplastic pollution and floods caused by climate change is…
Editorial Team•23 August 2024

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…
Editorial Team•22 August 2024

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…
Editorial Team•20 August 2024

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…
Editorial Team•19 August 2024

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…
Editorial Team•12 August 2024

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…
Editorial Team•9 August 2024

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…
Editorial Team•8 August 2024

Pollution
China to set emission ceiling from 2026
So far, Beijing has only set emission and energy intensity targets, linking greenhouse gases and economic…
Editorial Team•5 August 2024

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…