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 • methane leak
Pollution
The invisible methane leak in Kazakhstan from 127 thousand tons

The satellite data collected by Kyarros, a French company specializing in methane leak monitoring, has been…

Rinnovabili • Dieselgate
Pollution
Dieselgate’s Long Tail: Car Emissions Data Cheat by 80% Today

The values of car emissions approved with the new WLTP procedure decreased by 7.3% between 2018…

Rinnovabili • coal-fired power plants
Pollution
India turbocharged coal-fire power plants

Last May, India suggested blocking coal, finalizing only the power plants already in pipeline, in all…

Rinnovabili • fossil industry
Pollution
The fossil industry has known about global warming at least since 1954

Found unpublished documents proving that the American fossil industry was aware of the impact on the…

Rinnovabili • Global oil demand
Pollution
Global oil demand: Saudi Arabia cuts expansion plans

Riad has decided to cancel the plan to increase the production capacity of Saudi Aramco, which…

Rinnovabili • remove micro-pollutants from water
Water Management
Zwitterion hydrogels to remove micro-pollutants from water

They work better than activated carbon and recycle endlessly. MIT tested the technology to remove micro-pollutants…

Rinnovabili • PFAS contamination
Pollution
PFAS contamination strikes us even before we are born

For the first time, a study monitors the metabolism of foetuses and the accumulation of PFAS…

Rinnovabili • coal records in 2023
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…

Rinnovabili • direct capture of CO2
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…

Rinnovabili • dye-containing wastewater
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

Rinnovabili • Deep sea mining
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…

Rinnovabili • Microplastics
Pollution
Microplastics in clouds affect climate change

They facilitate the rapid formation of clouds and degrade more quickly due to increased exposure to…