Environment

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
Editorial Team•28 April 2025

Pollution
Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of…
Nearly 1.4 billion people live on land contaminated by toxic metals. According…
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

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…
22 March 2024

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…
21 March 2024

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…
19 March 2024

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…
19 March 2024

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…
14 March 2024

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…
11 March 2024

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…
11 March 2024

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…
10 March 2024

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…
5 March 2024

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…
26 February 2024

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…
21 February 2024

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…