Environment

Pollution

Rinnovabili • Forever chemicals, Trump to weaken EPA safety limits
Pollution
Trump to roll back safety limits on forever chemicals

The U.S. EPA has announced plans to revoke the maximum contaminant levels for PFNA, PFHxS, GenX, and PFBS pending regulatory reform. Only the limits for PFOA and…

Rinnovabili • Carbon emissions quota for 1.5°C limit nearly depleted
Pollution
The carbon emissions quota for staying…

The carbon emissions quota to limit global warming to 1.5°C could run…

Rinnovabili • Sea mercury pollution endangers Arctic animals and human health
Pollution
Centuries-old sea mercury pollution threatens Arctic…

Mercury released by human activities such as coal combustion and gold mining…


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…