Environment

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Rinnovabili • Forest fire emissions rise in South Korea, fall in Southeast Asia
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Record forest fire emissions in South Korea, sharp decline in Southeast Asia

The monitoring of forest fire emissions during the first four months of 2025, conducted by Copernicus, revealed record wildfire activity in the United Kingdom and South Korea,…

Rinnovabili • Fishing gear microplastics: how abandoned nets pollute the ocean
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Fishing gear: a leading source of…

Fishing gear is one of the leading sources of microplastics polluting oceans…

Rinnovabili • Tire additives fruits vegetables: hidden risks in everyday produce
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Tire additives found in fruits and…

A Swiss research found traces of tire additives in the most commonly…


Rinnovabili • microplastics
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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…

Rinnovabili • ozone-pollution
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Ozone pollution endangers Italian forests

Research on the economic impact of ozone pollution on Italian forests shows a significant loss of…

Rinnovabili • river-pollution
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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…

Rinnovabili • mic
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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…

Rinnovabili • bitcoin
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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…

Rinnovabili • microplastics
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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…

Rinnovabili • Plastic Pollution
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Historic agreement for the World Plastic Pollution Treaty

The United Nations Environment Assembly passes the first resolution to end global plastic pollution, a key…