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
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…
24 April 2023

Pollution
Microplastics compromise the structure of DNA
Enea and CNR test the genotoxic effect of microplastics on plants and animals. The result is…
24 April 2023

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
21 April 2023

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…
19 April 2023

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…
18 April 2023

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…
13 April 2023

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…
12 April 2023

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…
7 April 2023

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…
6 April 2023

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…
4 April 2023

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…
31 March 2023

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…

