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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
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…
15 March 2022
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