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
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…
7 July 2023

Scientific Reports
The domino effect that anticipates the Ecosystem collapse
The degradation of an ecosystem triggers a cascade of effects, some of which also affect other…
6 July 2023

Environment
July 4, 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth
The global thermometer has for the first time ever exceeded the threshold of 17 ºC mean…