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 • Abolishing plastic
Pollution
Abolish plastics: global treaty forgets chemicals

In an open letter published in the journal Science, 13 of the world’s leading plastic scientists…

Rinnovabili • Global water status
Water Management
Water, from the UN the 1st report on the Global water status…

All continents except Africa in the last 20 years have a negative trend in the availability…

Rinnovabili • Amazon rainforest dieback
Environment
Amazon rainforest dieback, new study explains what will happen after the point…

Climate models have so far considered a generalized collapse of the Amazonian ecosystem unlikely once it…

Rinnovabili • air-quality
Pollution
Air quality in Europe, in 2020 more than 300 thousand premature deaths…

Europe is in line with the target of reducing the number of premature deaths due to…

Rinnovabili • endothermic vehicles
Pollution
The bubble of the endothermic vehicles: so the automotive will exceed the…

A report by Greenpeace Germany and other academic partners calculates 53 Gt CO2 as the residual…

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Pollution
Chronic pollution exposure damages the immune system

A study by Columbia University showed that prolonged and chronic exposure to pollution weakens immune cells,…

Rinnovabili • antibiotic resistance
Pollution
Largest global meat brands favor antibiotic resistance

A survey by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals that suppliers of major meat processing brands,…

Rinnovabili • PFAS and PFOA
Water Management
New limits for PFAS and PFOA: 116 scientists against WHO

In a letter to the World Health Organisation, scientists from PFAS and PFOA call for a…

Rinnovabili • Dieselgate scandal
Pollution
Dieselgate scandal, the rigged device was designed at the desk

Emails and internal documents dated between 2006 and 2015 reveal that the four big German cars…

Rinnovabili • Methane emissions,
Environment
Methane emissions, identikit of the steak polluting like Germany

A report by the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy analyzes CH4 emissions from the world’s…

Rinnovabili • exceeding 1.5 degrees
Environment
Not exceeding 1.5 degrees is almost impossible: how to reduce overshooting?

A Doe and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory published study on Nature Climate Change explores 27 scenarios…

Rinnovabili • emissions from buildings
Pollution
Off-track buildings emissions: reached the historical maximum of 10GtCO2

Investments in efficiency increase and the intensity of emissions decreases, but the built surface also grows.…