Environment

Rinnovabili • Second-hottest May on record in 2025 fuels climate concern
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

Rinnovabili • Sea mercury pollution endangers Arctic animals and human health
Pollution
Centuries-old sea mercury pollution threatens Arctic…

Mercury released by human activities such as coal combustion and gold mining…

Rinnovabili • UN High Seas Treaty may take effect by January 2025
Climate Change
UN High Seas Treaty set to…

In Nice, delegations from 120 countries, including more than 50 heads of…


Rinnovabili • Hot record of July 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…

Rinnovabili • Mines on the ocean floor
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…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Environment
July (and 2023) to global warming record

Since the beginning of the month, the global average temperature has been stable at values never…

Rinnovabili • minerals critical for the transition
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…

Rinnovabili • coral reefs
Environment
Fishing pollutes coral reefs with plastic

If for coral reefs within 30 meters a cleaning activity is more feasible, for those deeper…

Rinnovabili • El Niño
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…

Rinnovabili • cooling energy
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…

Rinnovabili • Oceans are changing color
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…

Rinnovabili • Anthropocene
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…

Rinnovabili • PFAS contaminated water
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…

Rinnovabili • Ecosystem collapse
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…

Rinnovabili • hottest day
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…