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
2000 years of tree rings confirm global warming records of 2023
One study analysed tree growth rings at 15 sites in the northern hemisphere, reconstructing the temperatures…
18 May 2024

Water Management
More efficient atmospheric water collection with interwoven hydrogels
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute have developed a promising atmospheric water…
17 May 2024

Tech innovations and Startups
Clean hydrogen supply, over 16 million t/a by 2030
The BNEF analysis predicts that by the end of the decade the United States will become…
16 May 2024

Scientific Reports
There is an unprecedented amount of plastic pollution in the oceans
CleanHub’s study puts all the numbers of plastic pollution in the oceans on the streets, drawing…
15 May 2024

Water Management
Marine protected area, 1 in 4 is ghost
A study published in Conservation Letters analyzes the 100 largest marine protected areas in the world,…
13 May 2024

Waste
Swarms of minirobots apply to recover microplastics in water
The problem of microplastics in water could be reduced by using nanoscale robots capable of attracting…
11 May 2024

Pollution
The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has never increased so much as…
Hawaii’s Maunakea Observatory reported record increases in January, February and March. March’s growth over the same…
10 May 2024

Scientific Reports
CO2 removal technologies, we need to double capacity by 2050
A study published in Nature Climate Change calculates the CO2 sequestration capacity gap in the mid-century…
6 May 2024

Scientific Reports
Climate change and workers’ health, which categories are most at risk?
Workers' health is at serious risk because of the effects of climate change. This is what…
30 April 2024

Environment
Global warming and carbon flows in Arctic and Alpine ecosystems
How will global warming affect the future of the planet? An international group of 70 scientists…
28 April 2024

Pollution
Companies must have a plan against microplastics losses
According to a regulation approved yesterday by the EU Parliament, companies of all sizes will have…
26 April 2024

Environment
Floods and storms, Asia is the continent most affected by climate disasters
A report by the World Meteorological Organization emphasizes that hydro-meteorological risk remains the main danger, but…

