Environment

Climate Change
9 out of 16 climate tipping points at risk under current policies
A new study recalculates the link between the climate crisis and tipping points: under today's trajectory, there is a 62% chance of triggering most of them
Editorial Team•28 April 2025

Pollution
Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of…
Nearly 1.4 billion people live on land contaminated by toxic metals. According…
Editorial Team•23 April 2025

Climate Change
Earth Day 2025: Spotlight on Renewable…
On April 22, millions around the world will unite to celebrate Earth…
Editorial Team•22 April 2025

Environment
We’re out of Earth’s resources: August 2nd is Overshoot Day 2023
From today we begin to consume the supplyes of resources of 2024. This year, the Planet’s…
3 August 2023

Environment
Permafrost virus: how dangerous are they?
A JRC study computer simulates the evolution of microorganism communities once in contact with the "digital…
1 August 2023

Environment
Hot record of July 2023: we lived our first month at about…
In days, July will become the hottest month ever (not only compared to the months of…
27 July 2023

Policy and Affairs
Mines on the ocean floor: at this time no to the deep…
The dreaded green light to the exploitation of the "offshore" mines has not been there. But…
25 July 2023

Environment
July (and 2023) to global warming record
Since the beginning of the month, the global average temperature has been stable at values never…
24 July 2023

Scientific Reports
In the EVs hides the key to halve the need for Critical…
A Transport & Environment study calculates that it is possible to reduce the need for critical…
20 July 2023

Environment
Fishing pollutes coral reefs with plastic
If for coral reefs within 30 meters a cleaning activity is more feasible, for those deeper…
19 July 2023

Environment
El Niño 2023, there’s a 1 in 5 chance it’s “historic”
The most probable scenario (81%) is that the Child progressively strengthens up to the peak in…
15 July 2023

Environment
Europe is most exposed to increased demand for cooling energy
In a world of 2 degrees warmer, 8 of the 10 countries that will suffer the…
14 July 2023

Environment
Oceans are changing color: more and more green for climate change
The shift from blue to green reflects changes in phytoplankton populations, which are only possible with…
13 July 2023

Environment
The Anthropocene begins with plutonium at the bottom of a lake in…
The Antropocene Working Group has chosen the candidate site to define the beginning of the new…
12 July 2023

Pollution
PFAS contaminated water: 45% of taps in the USA
New USGS study on PFAS contaminated water - From almost half (45%) of American taps comes…