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Pollution
Italian tech tackles space debris with autonomous satellites and smart shields
Space debris threatens satellites, but two Italian innovations aim to boost orbit safety with AI, automation and CubeSat protection
Editorial Team•23 May 2025

Pollution
Record forest fire emissions in South…
The monitoring of forest fire emissions during the first four months of…
Editorial Team•17 May 2025

Pollution
Fishing gear: a leading source of…
Fishing gear is one of the leading sources of microplastics polluting oceans…
Editorial Team•12 May 2025

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

Pollution
New parasites transported by microplastics from the land into the ocean
A new study revealed that microplastics can hook up pathogens from land and transported them into…
3 May 2022

Pollution
Ozone pollution endangers Italian forests
Research on the economic impact of ozone pollution on Italian forests shows a significant loss of…
29 April 2022

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

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

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

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

Pollution
Historic agreement for the World Plastic Pollution Treaty
The United Nations Environment Assembly passes the first resolution to end global plastic pollution, a key…