Environment

Climate Change
Second-hottest May on record marks global warming trend
The second-hottest May on record hit in 2025, with heat records in Iceland and Greenland driven by human-induced global warming
Editorial Team•17 June 2025

Pollution
Centuries-old sea mercury pollution threatens Arctic…
Mercury released by human activities such as coal combustion and gold mining…
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

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

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

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
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…
21 February 2024

Pollution
The invisible methane leak in Kazakhstan from 127 thousand tons
The satellite data collected by Kyarros, a French company specializing in methane leak monitoring, has been…
19 February 2024

Environment
Warmer climate will increase locust invasions by 25%
Even if we substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the countries most at risk today will remain…