Environment

Rinnovabili • Electric food carts transform New York street vendors
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…

Rinnovabili • Water becomes a weapon as the Middle East crisis targets desalination plants
Water Management
Water becomes a weapon as the…

As conflict spreads across the Gulf, desalination plants and cogeneration facilities have…

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Environment
US emissions increase as higher natural…

Rising natural gas prices triggered a sharp rebound in US coal consumption…


Rinnovabili • fossil industry
Pollution
The fossil industry has known about global warming at least since 1954

Found unpublished documents proving that the American fossil industry was aware of the impact on the…

Rinnovabili • Global oil demand
Pollution
Global oil demand: Saudi Arabia cuts expansion plans

Riad has decided to cancel the plan to increase the production capacity of Saudi Aramco, which…

Rinnovabili • contaminants in wastewater
Water Management
Artificial intelligence can predict the concentration of contaminants in wastewater

With consumption growing, the risk of increasing drugs in wastewater is real. Technology can help purify

Rinnovabili • target 1.5°C
Environment
Keeping the target 1.5°C possible? Need 11 TW renewable by 2030

The current decade is crucial to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 ºC, but investment in…

Rinnovabili • capture CO2
Environment
A beam of light is enough to CO2 capture without heat

Traditional methods of sequestering carbon dioxide from the air rely on energy-intensive processes because they require…

Rinnovabili • fighting the climate crisis
Environment
5 good reasons to be optimistic about fighting the climate crisis

Awareness about climate change penetrated into public discourse. The boom of zero net targets and the…

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Environment
All global warming forecasts in 2024

According to the Met Office, 2024 could close with +1.58°C strong global warming. Niño influence will…

Rinnovabili • record of ocean temperature
Environment
In 2023 new record of ocean temperature. And the Mediterranean is the…

Between 8 and 15 ZettaJoule more energy than in 2022. It is the amount of additional…

Rinnovabili • remove micro-pollutants from water
Water Management
Zwitterion hydrogels to remove micro-pollutants from water

They work better than activated carbon and recycle endlessly. MIT tested the technology to remove micro-pollutants…

Rinnovabili • PFAS contamination
Pollution
PFAS contamination strikes us even before we are born

For the first time, a study monitors the metabolism of foetuses and the accumulation of PFAS…

Rinnovabili • Bluenzyme
Environment
Synthetic bio-fixation of CO2, a new milestone

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a synthetic pathway that can capture CO2 from…

Rinnovabili • Ecosystem services
Environment
Ecosystem services: the climate crisis will reduce them by 9.2% by 2100

Calculating only the changes in the benefits provided by terrestrial ecosystems due to climate change, a…