Environment
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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
Elon Musk, the light pollution of satellites and the future of astronomy
In a series of speeches on Nature Astronomy, dozens of astronomers denounce the impact of the…
21 March 2023
Pollution
Record in February, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest marks +61.8%
The data of the DETER satellite monitoring system, managed by the National Institute for Space Research…
14 March 2023
Pollution
Let’s tackle space pollution before it’s too late
There are 7,000 satellites in orbit, rising to 60,000 in 2030. And billions of debris and…
10 March 2023
Pollution
Methane leaks, who are the biggest polluters of 2022?
US, Russia and Turkmenistan are responsible for the largest number of methane leaks from fossil fuel…
8 March 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Eight robot bees to save an entire ecosystem, Durham’s bet
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and micro-robotics. These are the ingredients of RoboRoyale, the EU-funded project that…
28 February 2023
Pollution
Methane emissions: 135 million tonnes for the energy industry
The commitment of the fossil industry is lame but the IEA shows how the oil and…
24 February 2023
Pollution
Plastics in the sea: the results of the COMMON project for Mediterranean
Presented the final budget of COMMON, the plastic monitoring project in the Mediterranean Sea. 90 thousand…
15 February 2023
Pollution
PHEV: Emissions of plug-in hybrid cars in the city pollute like an…
The emission values reported by BMW, Peugeot and Renault beat around 27-36 g CO2/km. While those…
11 February 2023
Pollution
Plastic in the ocean found in the Arctic comes from all over…
A citizen science study coordinated by the AWI analyzed the origin of plastic in the ocean…
10 February 2023
Pollution
Pollution in the Mediterranean sea: 65% are plastic waste
The results of Floating Litter, the project conducted by the Italian institute ISPRA and Mediterranea to…
3 February 2023
Waste
60 years and not feel them: the microplastics on the seabed of…
A study by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona sampled the sediments of the seabed between Barcelona…
13 January 2023
Pollution
The oil spills that wrote the history of environmental justice
It closes with an agreement between the Dutch major and the NGO Friends of the Earth…
27 December 2022
Climate Change
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