Environment

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Rinnovabili • Data center emissions
Pollution
Data center emissions: by 2030 they will pollute as much as India

Morgan Stanley forecasts that the surge in large-scale data centers will significantly increase their emissions, reaching levels comparable to those of India. This rise in emissions is…

Rinnovabili • Remove nanoplastics
Pollution
Remove nanoplastics from water with an…

Create a new technology capable of removing nanoplastics from contaminated water, with…

Rinnovabili • microplastic pollution
Pollution
How microplastic pollution destroys coastal plants

Goodbye coastal ecosystems: the combined impact of microplastic pollution and floods caused…


Rinnovabili • remove heavy metals from water
Water Management
So nature teaches science how to remove heavy metals from water

An international team of researchers has figured out how to remove heavy metals from water by…

Rinnovabili • emission ceiling
Pollution
China to set emission ceiling from 2026

So far, Beijing has only set emission and energy intensity targets, linking greenhouse gases and economic…

Rinnovabili • European lithium production
Pollution
Protests against Serbian mine to support European lithium production

While Fiat launches a plant for the electric Panda in Serbia, the European lithium production mine…

Rinnovabili • PFAS
Pollution
The threat of PFAS in lithium batteries

The battle for decarbonisation may have shadow cones. This is the case of PFAS in lithium…

Rinnovabili • Canadian wildfires
Pollution
Canadian wildfires in 2023 polluted 4 times more than all aircraft

The new estimates provided by the World Resource Institute set at around 3 GtCO2 the emissions…

Rinnovabili • emissions of cargo aircraft
Pollution
Air transport has the long Covid: emissions of cargo aircraft +25% on…

A Stand.Earth report reconstructs the shift of logistics from sea to air for freight transport. The…

Rinnovabili • PFAS pollution in waters
Pollution
PFAS pollution in waters UE is alarming

Pesticide Action Network survey identified PFAS pollution levels in 10 countries above legal limits

Rinnovabili • Greenhouse gas emissions
Pollution
Greenhouse gas emissions “pollute the marine environment”: Itlos ruling

The advisory opinion of the independent UN body does not legally oblige states to reduce their…

Rinnovabili • microplastics in the oceans
Pollution
What does it take to reduce the levels of microplastics in the…

A study published in Environmental Research Letters estimates that even cutting 20% of the world’s plastic…

Rinnovabili • plastic pollution in the oceans
Scientific Reports
There is an unprecedented amount of plastic pollution in the oceans

CleanHub’s study puts all the numbers of plastic pollution in the oceans on the streets, drawing…

Rinnovabili • CO2 concentration
Pollution
The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has never increased so much as…

Hawaii’s Maunakea Observatory reported record increases in January, February and March. March’s growth over the same…

Rinnovabili • CO2 removal
Scientific Reports
CO2 removal technologies, we need to double capacity by 2050

A study published in Nature Climate Change calculates the CO2 sequestration capacity gap in the mid-century…