Environment
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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
Pollution
The hidden impact of tire and…
Beyond exhaust, non-exhaust emissions from tires and brakes are a growing source…
Paolo Travisi•30 March 2026
Pollution
The staggering cost: quantifying the US…
A new study quantifies the global economic damage from individual country emissions.…
Erminia Voccia•27 March 2026
Pollution
Kansas has the biggest onshore oil leak in the last 10 years
The oil leak is almost equal to all of the previous 22 leaks of the Keystone…
15 December 2022
Pollution
US$3.7 billion plan for direct air capture CO2
Almost all the investment -3.5 billion $- will finance 4 major regional hubs to develop commercial-scale…
14 December 2022
Pollution
Plastic at sea: “Every week we eat the equivalent of a plastic…
During the Polieco International Forum on the Waste Economy, the alarm of the world of science…
10 December 2022
Pollution
The neighborhood with the best air quality? Tell you the grass and…
A study by the University of California Riverside uses the amount of radiocarbon in roadside grasses…
8 December 2022
Pollution
Abolish plastics: global treaty forgets chemicals
In an open letter published in the journal Science, 13 of the world’s leading plastic scientists…
1 December 2022
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…
28 November 2022
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…
26 November 2022
Pollution
Chronic pollution exposure damages the immune system
A study by Columbia University showed that prolonged and chronic exposure to pollution weakens immune cells,…
24 November 2022
Pollution
Largest global meat brands favor antibiotic resistance
A survey by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals that suppliers of major meat processing brands,…
23 November 2022
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…
22 November 2022
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…
19 November 2022
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.…
9 November 2022
Climate Change
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