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

Pollution
Methane emissions: 135 million tonnes for the energy industry
The commitment of the fossil industry is lame but the IEA shows how the oil and…
24 February 2023

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…

