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
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…
30 January 2023

Environment
Increase in sea level? The biggest impact will be already before 2100
A study published in Earth’s Future is based on the measurements of NASA’s ICESat-2 lidar satellite…
26 January 2023

Environment
Is the collapse of glaciers of Western Antarctica really inevitable?
The unstoppable melting of the most unstable part of the South Pole glacial shield would cause…
24 January 2023

Environment
A layer of sand has hidden 8% of global warming
Airborne dust has increased 55% since the mid-1800s but is not a factor taken into account…
20 January 2023

Environment
Mexico bans solar geoengineering after clandestine experiment in Baja California
An American startup released sulfur particles into the stratosphere to reflect solar radiation and change the…
20 January 2023

Environment
The eruption of Tonga volcano changed the climate. With water vapor
Little sulfur dioxide, a lot of water projected into the stratosphere: thanks to this exceptional feature…
17 January 2023

Waste
60 years and not feel them: the microplastics on the seabed of…
A study by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona sampled the sediments of the seabed between Barcelona…
13 January 2023

Environment
Ozone hole goodbye: it will close already in 2066
The global action against gases harmful to the O3 layer that envelops the Planet and protects…
11 January 2023

Environment
We were too optimistic about the glacial melting: already condemned 1 in…
The most comprehensive study ever made estimates that at current rates, the rate of glacial melting…
10 January 2023

Environment
Water, bacteria, CO2: warming oceans damage climate
The research team analyzed the results of 81 oceanographic missions that have collected samples from the…
6 January 2023

Environment
2022 was the hottest year ever in many European countries
France, Spain, Germany and Italy have new absolute records of hot weather. Great Britain never so…
5 January 2023

Environment
In Brazil the Lula era begins (again): the first measures for the…
He returned yesterday to lead Brazil after two terms in 2003-2010, the former metalworker who leads…

