Environment

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,…
Editorial Team•16 June 2025

Climate Change
UN High Seas Treaty set to…
In Nice, delegations from 120 countries, including more than 50 heads of…
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

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…
15 April 2024

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…
10 April 2024

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…
9 April 2024

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…
8 April 2024

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…
6 April 2024

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…
30 March 2024

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.…
29 March 2024

Pollution
A plasma detector to identify pharmaceutical waste in water
Plasma resonance can identify pharmaceutical waste in drinking water and safely remove it
26 March 2024

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%…
25 March 2024

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…