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

Environment
Never so little sea ice in Antarctica: how will it affect the…
The ice sheet gap is so pronounced that it exceeds the 6 standard deviations: it is…
3 August 2023

Environment
We’re out of Earth’s resources: August 2nd is Overshoot Day 2023
From today we begin to consume the supplyes of resources of 2024. This year, the Planet’s…
3 August 2023

Environment
Permafrost virus: how dangerous are they?
A JRC study computer simulates the evolution of microorganism communities once in contact with the "digital…
1 August 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…
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…

