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

Environment
Keeping the target 1.5°C possible? Need 11 TW renewable by 2030
The current decade is crucial to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 ºC, but investment in…
19 January 2024

Environment
A beam of light is enough to CO2 capture without heat
Traditional methods of sequestering carbon dioxide from the air rely on energy-intensive processes because they require…
18 January 2024

Environment
5 good reasons to be optimistic about fighting the climate crisis
Awareness about climate change penetrated into public discourse. The boom of zero net targets and the…
18 January 2024

Environment
All global warming forecasts in 2024
According to the Met Office, 2024 could close with +1.58°C strong global warming. Niño influence will…
16 January 2024

Environment
In 2023 new record of ocean temperature. And the Mediterranean is the…
Between 8 and 15 ZettaJoule more energy than in 2022. It is the amount of additional…
11 January 2024

Water Management
Zwitterion hydrogels to remove micro-pollutants from water
They work better than activated carbon and recycle endlessly. MIT tested the technology to remove micro-pollutants…
11 January 2024

Pollution
PFAS contamination strikes us even before we are born
For the first time, a study monitors the metabolism of foetuses and the accumulation of PFAS…
10 January 2024

Environment
Synthetic bio-fixation of CO2, a new milestone
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a synthetic pathway that can capture CO2 from…
9 January 2024

Environment
Ecosystem services: the climate crisis will reduce them by 9.2% by 2100
Calculating only the changes in the benefits provided by terrestrial ecosystems due to climate change, a…
3 January 2024

Pollution
All coal records in 2023: the bittersweet year of the most polluting…
China continues to build new power plants: 70% of the world’s pipeline depends on Beijing. The…
29 December 2023

Environment
Carbon storage in the oceans, +20% thanks to “sea snow”
A French CNR study published in Nature recalculates the role of plankton in transporting carbon from…
19 December 2023

Scientific Reports
Global Coal Demand Record 2023
The IEA expects that this year we will reach the peak in world coal consumption. While…