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
Rivers pollution: Plastic catch barriers to keep them clean
The Emilia Romagna Region has introduced the innovative experimentation of plastic catch barriers for cleaning from…
15 April 2022
Waste
World Wide Waste Web, the map of the distribution of hazardous waste…
A Spanish research institute has created the world wide wast web, a map of the spread…
13 April 2022
Scientific Reports
IPCC report: Moving to sustainable lifestyles cuts global emissions by 40-70%
For the first time, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analyses the climate…
9 April 2022
Pollution
Microplastics in the lungs, found for 1 time in living people
Research from the University of Hull, UK, used spectroscopy to detect tiny plastic fragments. Present in…
8 April 2022
Scientific Reports
How the global energy system must change according to IPCC 2022
Full details of the energy systems chapter of the latest IPCC report 2022. To stay below…
6 April 2022
Scientific Reports
How many emissions do we have left? All scenarios in the new…
The chapter on mitigation measures (WG3) of Assessment Report 6 presents 8 new emissive scenarios. Those…
6 April 2022
Environment
Climate disasters, floods dominated 2021
Compared to the previous year, in 2021 the damage caused by extreme climatic disasters grew by…
1 April 2022
Pollution
Bitcoin in the crosshairs: campaign starts to reduce the energy consumption of…
Bitcoin takes 11 times more energy than rival Ethereum for every single transaction. The reason? Two…
30 March 2022
Waste
All ready for the national radioactive waste storage, Sogin publishes CNAI by…
Italy is under EU infringement for delays on national radioactive waste storage (Sustainabilityenvironment.com) – Closer and…
29 March 2022
Pollution
Microplastics found in human blood for the first time
The Immunoplast research project demonstrated that plastic pollution has now also made its way into the…
25 March 2022
Water Management
Solar-powered desalination MIT system costs only 4 dollars
Created a new high efficiency passive solar-powered desalination system based on economical materials
24 March 2022
Waste
Plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables: stop from France and Spain
From 1 January 2022, the obligation for France to sell fresh fruit and vegetables without plastic…
22 March 2022
Climate Change
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