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Pollution
Toxic metals contaminate over one-sixth of the world’s farmland
Nearly 1.4 billion people live on land contaminated by toxic metals. According to a new study, 17% of the world’s agricultural land may be polluted. For the…
Editorial Team•23 April 2025

Pollution
Europe’s Transport Emissions Finally See a…
Between 2019 and 2024, greenhouse gases from cars, trucks, ships, and planes…
Editorial Team•21 March 2025

Pollution
Waste-to-energy plants in China more polluting…
Waste-to-energy plants in China may emit more CO2 than coal plants due…
Editorial Team•7 March 2025

Pollution
All coal records in 2023: the bittersweet year of the most polluting…
China continues to build new power plants: 70% of the world’s pipeline depends on Beijing. The…
29 December 2023

Pollution
A startup in Turin will construct a 1 certain Italian plant for…
CarpeCarbon has been awarded a loan of more than 1.7 million euros from Tech4Planet, 360 Capital…
27 November 2023

Pollution
In the world, we have a problem of pollution by dye-containing wastewater
Every year 70 billion wastewater generated by the textile sector alone causes worrying dye-containing wastewater pollution
30 October 2023

Pollution
Deep sea mining, 100 NGOs call for a global moratorium on submarine…
The next week the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the agency UN that regulates the aspects legacies…
26 October 2023

Pollution
Microplastics in clouds affect climate change
They facilitate the rapid formation of clouds and degrade more quickly due to increased exposure to…
29 September 2023

Pollution
Found microplastics in the heart of patients after surgery
Following surgery, microplastics may remain in the heart of patients and surrounding tissues
28 August 2023

Pollution
Blocks of plastiglomerate threaten the tropical coast
In Indonesia plastic waste is burned directly on the beach, creating artificial rocks - plastiglomerate -…
21 August 2023

Pollution
PFAS contaminated water: 45% of taps in the USA
New USGS study on PFAS contaminated water - From almost half (45%) of American taps comes…
7 July 2023

Pollution
The IAEA ensures that the release of Fukushima contaminated water into the…
The final report of the two-year monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency promotes Japan across…
4 July 2023

Pollution
Halving ships emissions 7 years is possible and convenient
A study of CE Delft published today calculates that reductions of 28-47% of the emissions of…
4 July 2023

Pollution
Wildfire in Canada: record emissions in less than 6 months
From January to June the emissions of fires in Canada reached 160 MtCO2eq. In a year,…
29 June 2023

Pollution
Renewable boom does not reduce global greenhouse gas emissions
The photo of the Energy Institute on global energy consumption 2022 shows how the significant increase…