Environment

Climate Change
9 out of 16 climate tipping points at risk under current policies
A new study recalculates the link between the climate crisis and tipping points: under today's trajectory, there is a 62% chance of triggering most of them
Editorial Team•28 April 2025

Pollution
Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of…
Nearly 1.4 billion people live on land contaminated by toxic metals. According…
Editorial Team•23 April 2025

Climate Change
Earth Day 2025: Spotlight on Renewable…
On April 22, millions around the world will unite to celebrate Earth…
Editorial Team•22 April 2025

Environment
ETS: Carbon price in the EU exceeds 100 euros
Yesterday contract of reference is exchanged to 100,49 euros for ton, after having touched the historical…
23 February 2023

Environment
Fukushima’s radioactive water no longer scares South Korea
A study by the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology and the Korea Atomic Energy…
20 February 2023

Environment
Melting sea glaciers, if we go over 1.8°C we’ll have seas 1…
Thanks to a computer model that, for the first time, examines the interaction between glacial shields,…
17 February 2023

Environment
Record of fusion for the Antarctic sea ice, remains just 1,91 mln…
Data from the National Snow & Ice Data Center record an all-time low when there are…
16 February 2023

Pollution
Plastics in the sea: the results of the COMMON project for Mediterranean
Presented the final budget of COMMON, the plastic monitoring project in the Mediterranean Sea. 90 thousand…
15 February 2023

Pollution
PHEV: Emissions of plug-in hybrid cars in the city pollute like an…
The emission values reported by BMW, Peugeot and Renault beat around 27-36 g CO2/km. While those…
11 February 2023

Pollution
Plastic in the ocean found in the Arctic comes from all over…
A citizen science study coordinated by the AWI analyzed the origin of plastic in the ocean…
10 February 2023

Environment
We risk losing the fight against tomorrow’s superbugs, created by antimicrobial resistance
The interweaving of environmental, climate and pollution crises amplifies the effects of the dispersion in nature…
9 February 2023

Environment
By now respecting the limit of 1.5 degrees is “implausible”
The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook shifts focus from future climate scenarios that are theoretically possible to…
7 February 2023

Pollution
Pollution in the Mediterranean sea: 65% are plastic waste
The results of Floating Litter, the project conducted by the Italian institute ISPRA and Mediterranea to…
3 February 2023

Environment
Tipping Points: overcoming them can bring unexpected benefits
University of Utrecht study argues that the collapse of the West Antarctic glacial shield could stabilize…
1 February 2023

Environment
Who steals our carbon budget for the 1.5°C?
The 25 largest oil & gas companies in the world have expansion plans that will gnaw…