Environment

Waste
Biodegradable memory from Korea could curb electronic waste
A new organic memory that dissolves in water may help cut electronic waste. The breakthrough comes from Korea with the PCL-TEMPO polymer
Editorial Team•2 July 2025

Waste
Plastic waste turned into paracetamol: engineered…
A common bacterium transforms plastic waste into the active ingredient of paracetamol,…
Editorial Team•1 July 2025

Scientific Reports
How renewables could cut energy prices…
Energy prices could drop 57% in the EU by 2030 if renewables…
Editorial Team•1 July 2025

Scientific Reports
Food safety: 3,000 chemicals detected in food packaging
An international group of scientists has studied all the literature available on the subject of food…
24 May 2022

Pollution
Pollution deaths, The Lancet alarm: “We’re coming back”
The global review update captures a deteriorating situation, although the total number of deaths is stable.
23 May 2022

Pollution
Definitive ok for the release in the ocean of the water of…
The Japanese Nuclear Energy Authority has approved Tepco’s plan to dispose of the molten core coolant…
20 May 2022

Environment
Insurance companies are also unprepared for climate disasters
A study by Capgemini and Emsa takes a snapshot of how insurance companies prepare for a…
18 May 2022

Water Management
Public water utility in the Constitution: Chile says no (for now)
The 52 proposals for amendments to the Charter of Fundamental Rights - written by the dictator…
17 May 2022

Environment
Mass death of corals, affected 91% of the coral reef
The first monitoring after the March-April bleaching event confirms the expectations. The damage to the reef…
17 May 2022

Environment
Drought warning: for the UN humanity “is at a crossroads”
By 2030 extreme water scarcity could generate 700 million new climate migrants. Original news Second UN…
14 May 2022

Pollution
Yemen, UN alarm for the oil tanker FSO Safer: we are a…
The ship has not undergone any maintenance since 2015 due to the civil war. UN technical…
11 May 2022

Environment
Global warming, 50% chance of exceeding 1.5 ºC within 5 years
In 2015 the chances of exceeding the minimum threshold of the Paris agreement by 2026 were…
10 May 2022

Water
Climate disasters: floods and droughts cost finance 225 billion
Although 69% of companies that rely on CDP’s disclosure platform assume that water-related disasters would have…
8 May 2022

Environment
A study rewrites the ranking of the most intense heat waves ever
The assessment method used by the University of Bristol team is based on local temperature variability,…
7 May 2022

Environment
Towards a European standard for the voluntary carbon removal market
Today the market is in private hands, it has no shared rules, it guarantees little transparency.…