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

Pollution
Alaska drills compromise: only new projects stop
The White House has announced that no more permits will be issued for new mining projects…
24 April 2024

Environment
Plastic is the number one enemy on World Earth Day 2024
Launched by the NGO Earth Day, World Earth Day 2024 is focused on the ecological and…
22 April 2024

Environment
Drought in the Alps will worsen “substantially” even at +1.6°C
While the climate crisis will not significantly affect the floods caused by the melting of the…
17 April 2024

Environment
Coral bleaching: the 4th global mass death has begun
This is the 4th event in 30 years, the 2nd in the last 10 years. It…
16 April 2024

Environment
Arctic permafrost already emits more carbon than it absorbs
It is the result of the first scientific evaluation of the greenhouse gas balance conducted on…
15 April 2024

Pollution
So far we have not seen 98% of the pollution from microplastics
Research by the University of Basel, Switzerland, employs a new sampling method that can also collect…
10 April 2024

Environment
Global warming record also in March: it’s the 10th consecutive month
Copernicus data lengthens the long hot record strip that continues from mid-2023. In Europe March 2024…
9 April 2024

Pollution
The plastic on the seabed could be 100 times more than expected
Canadian and Australian researchers reveal that tons of plastic on the seabed could reach up to…
8 April 2024

Environment
Global deforestation clears 10 football fields per minute in 2023
The factor that continues to drive the loss of tropical forests and not only is the…
6 April 2024

Pollution
Does planting trees save the Planet? Yes, if they are periurban forests
A global satellite analysis with a definition of 500 meters identifies areas within 10 km from…
30 March 2024

Environment
Climate disaster costs to double in 10 years
Damage caused by mega-storms (convective storms), especially those associated with hail, is growing rapidly in Europe.…
29 March 2024

Pollution
A plasma detector to identify pharmaceutical waste in water
Plasma resonance can identify pharmaceutical waste in drinking water and safely remove it

