Environment
Pollution
New York’s iconic hot dog carts are going electric to cut noise and pollution
New York is testing battery-powered street food carts that replace noisy gasoline generators with swappable batteries, offering a cleaner, quieter model that could reshape street vending in…
Paolo Travisi•10 August 2026
Water Management
Water becomes a weapon as the…
As conflict spreads across the Gulf, desalination plants and cogeneration facilities have…
Erminia Voccia•10 August 2026
Environment
US emissions increase as higher natural…
Rising natural gas prices triggered a sharp rebound in US coal consumption…
Erminia Voccia•2 July 2026
Environment
Extreme heat deaths: 175 000 deaths per year in Europe
Europe is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. It alone accounts…
Editorial Team•8 August 2024
Pollution
China to set emission ceiling from 2026
So far, Beijing has only set emission and energy intensity targets, linking greenhouse gases and economic…
Editorial Team•5 August 2024
Pollution
Protests against Serbian mine to support European lithium production
While Fiat launches a plant for the electric Panda in Serbia, the European lithium production mine…
Editorial Team•3 August 2024
Environment
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024: we consume 1.75 Planets per year
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024. Global ecological debt has been stable for a decade. But…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024
Climate Change
In 2023 Earth’s carbon sink will collapse
By 2022, terrestrial ecosystems that naturally capture and store CO2 had absorbed 9.5 billion tonnes. Last…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024
Environment
Global warming: 2024 will be the warmest year ever
After the first 6 months of the year that marked new primates of heat, 2024 is…
Editorial Team•29 July 2024
Water Management
Deep-sea mining will leave the ocean bottom without oxygen
A study led by the Scottish Association for Marine Science and conducted in the Clarion Clipperton…
Editorial Team•26 July 2024
Water Management
Pesticides in drinking water, how to reduce contamination risks
How many pesticides does our drinking water contain? In the conventional treatment of drinking water, activated…
Editorial Team•18 July 2024
Pollution
The threat of PFAS in lithium batteries
The battle for decarbonisation may have shadow cones. This is the case of PFAS in lithium…
Editorial Team•16 July 2024
Environment
We’ve had a whole year with global warming surpassing 1.5°C
Last month, globally, it was 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial average, and in Europe the global…
Editorial Team•8 July 2024
Climate Change
$21 billion to finance climate crisis adaptation in 700 global cities
More than 80% of the more than 1,100 cities that disclose data on their climate performance…
Editorial Team•5 July 2024
Pollution
Canadian wildfires in 2023 polluted 4 times more than all aircraft
The new estimates provided by the World Resource Institute set at around 3 GtCO2 the emissions…
Editorial Team•1 July 2024
Climate Change
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