Environment

Rinnovabili • Sea mercury pollution endangers Arctic animals and human health
Pollution
Centuries-old sea mercury pollution threatens Arctic wildlife and Indigenous communities

Mercury released by human activities such as coal combustion and gold mining can stay in the atmosphere for up to a year. Once it enters the ocean,…

Rinnovabili • UN High Seas Treaty may take effect by January 2025
Climate Change
UN High Seas Treaty set to…

In Nice, delegations from 120 countries, including more than 50 heads of…

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…


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Environment
Arctic permafrost already emits more carbon than it absorbs

It is the result of the first scientific evaluation of the greenhouse gas balance conducted on…

Rinnovabili • pollution from microplastics
Pollution
So far we have not seen 98% of the pollution from microplastics

Research by the University of Basel, Switzerland, employs a new sampling method that can also collect…

Rinnovabili • Global warming record
Environment
Global warming record also in March: it’s the 10th consecutive month

Copernicus data lengthens the long hot record strip that continues from mid-2023. In Europe March 2024…

Rinnovabili • The plastic on the seabed
Pollution
The plastic on the seabed could be 100 times more than expected

Canadian and Australian researchers reveal that tons of plastic on the seabed could reach up to…

Rinnovabili • Global deforestation
Environment
Global deforestation clears 10 football fields per minute in 2023

The factor that continues to drive the loss of tropical forests and not only is the…

Rinnovabili • periurban forests
Pollution
Does planting trees save the Planet? Yes, if they are periurban forests

A global satellite analysis with a definition of 500 meters identifies areas within 10 km from…

Rinnovabili • Climate disasters
Environment
Climate disaster costs to double in 10 years

Damage caused by mega-storms (convective storms), especially those associated with hail, is growing rapidly in Europe.…

Rinnovabili • pharmaceutical waste
Pollution
A plasma detector to identify pharmaceutical waste in water

Plasma resonance can identify pharmaceutical waste in drinking water and safely remove it

Rinnovabili • climate change
Environment
In Europe too, climate change will increase the price of food

Only because of the heat waves of summer 2022, food inflation in Europe grew by 0.67%…

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…