Environment

Rinnovabili • how to avoid triggering tipping point climate: 9 of 16 already at risk
Climate Change
9 out of 16 climate tipping points at risk under current policies

A new study recalculates the link between the climate crisis and tipping points: under today's trajectory, there is a 62% chance of triggering most of them

Rinnovabili • Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of the world’s farmland
Pollution
Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of…

Nearly 1.4 billion people live on land contaminated by toxic metals. According…

Rinnovabili • Earth Day
Climate Change
Earth Day 2025: Spotlight on Renewable…

On April 22, millions around the world will unite to celebrate Earth…


Rinnovabili • excess deaths from heat
Environment
A handful of fossil companies will cause 11.5 million excess deaths from…

The summer of 2022 in Europe claimed more than 60,000 lives due to heat waves. About…

Rinnovabili • microplastic pollution
Pollution
A clear green light to cut 30% of microplastic pollution

The January environmental disaster in Galicia led to the adoption by a large majority of the…

Rinnovabili • EU car emissions
Pollution
EVs cut EU car emissions by 5% in 2022

The downward trend started in 2020, after 4 years of increases in average emissions, has been…

Rinnovabili • climate adaptation
Environment
AI-enabled compass to push investors towards climate adaptation

The tool presented by the non-profit organization Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment Group (GARI) is able…

Rinnovabili • Methane emissions
Pollution
Methane emissions: the US pollutes three times as much as they claim

The EPA estimates that about 1% of the volume of gas extracted in the USA is…

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Pollution
Micro and nanoplastics could increase the risk of metastases

High absorption and high retention in tissues and cells make micro- and nanoplastics no longer a…

Rinnovabili • pollution from PFAS
Environment
With this method eliminating pollution from PFAS costs 100 times less

A group of scientists from the University of Rochester have found an economic way to decontaminate…

Rinnovabili • carbon budget
Environment
We have a larger-than-expected carbon budget for 1.5 degrees

Before we pass the two thresholds of the Paris Agreement, we still have 812 GtCO2eq and…

Rinnovabili • Fossil companies
Pollution
Fossil companies reward those who go against their strategic goals

The analysis of the parameters by which the 25 largest fossil majors calculate the remuneration of…

Rinnovabili • Forestry
Environment
Forestry: planting trees is not always good for the climate

Large-scale forestry triggers feedback effects that can cancel up to 1/3 of the climate benefits from…

Rinnovabili • Virus and climate crisis
Environment
Geoengineering becomes “viral” and gives us an ocean of solutions against the…

Use viruses with gene sequences that regulate carbon metabolism to "engineer" microbial communities in the oceans…

Rinnovabili • wooden satellite
Tech innovations and Startups
Japan to launch 1 wooden satellite in the world

The prototype assembled by the University of Kyoto and Sumitomo Forestry reported almost no damage after…