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 • Endangered species
Environment
The Endangered species by 2100 are 1 in 8

According to IPBES, the intergovernmental platform of scientific policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services, there are…

Rinnovabili • Microplastics
Pollution
Microplastics compromise the structure of DNA

Enea and CNR test the genotoxic effect of microplastics on plants and animals. The result is…

Rinnovabili • Climate change
Environment
Climate change: the planet has lost its balance

Earth’s energy imbalance continues to grow. Sign that we are not managing to control climate change

Rinnovabili • Stop deforestation
Environment
Is it possible to stop deforestation with $130 billion a year?

Finance alone is not enough. In addition to money, we must reduce the consumption of goods…

Rinnovabili • plastic pollution
Pollution
Stop new plastic pollution from 2040, the promise of the G7

The Environment Ministers meeting in Japan signed a commitment not to produce new plastic pollution in…

Rinnovabili • sea heat waves
Environment
In 2100, 1/7 of the global oceans will be affected by permanent…

A Chinese study calculates the variation in frequency, intensity and geographical distribution of sea heat waves…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Environment
In March, global warming hit +0.51°C: only worse in 2016

Last month the global mercury column reached +0.51°C, as in 2019. The record still holds in…

Rinnovabili • Melting glaciers
Environment
Melting glaciers can run at 600 meters per day

A study by the University of Newcastle analyzes 7,600 corrugation ridges scattered over 30,000 km2 of…

Rinnovabili • Phantom emissions
Pollution
Phantom emissions from the Gulf of Mexico: oil & gas pollutes 2…

A study conducted by the University of Michigan compares national inventory data with data collected by…

Rinnovabili • deaths from extreme heat
Environment
In 2100, deaths from extreme heat in the Middle East and North…

Meeting the less ambitious target of the Paris agreement would allow the death rate to be…

Rinnovabili • Greenland ice sheet
Environment
We are close to the points of no return of the Greenland…

A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research identifies two tipping points beyond which…

Rinnovabili • impact of plastics on health
Pollution
From leukemia to premature births, the 1st systematic study on the impact…

The production of ever-increasing volumes of plastic is the number one problem. Between 1950 and 2019…