Environment
Pollution
Pollution
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
Methane emissions: the US pollutes three times as much as they claim
The EPA estimates that about 1% of the volume of gas extracted in the USA is…
14 March 2024
Pollution
Micro and nanoplastics could increase the risk of metastases
High absorption and high retention in tissues and cells make micro- and nanoplastics no longer a…
11 March 2024
Pollution
Fossil companies reward those who go against their strategic goals
The analysis of the parameters by which the 25 largest fossil majors calculate the remuneration of…
5 March 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
Japan to launch 1 wooden satellite in the world
The prototype assembled by the University of Kyoto and Sumitomo Forestry reported almost no damage after…
21 February 2024
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…
19 February 2024
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…
5 February 2024
Pollution
India turbocharged coal-fire power plants
Last May, India suggested blocking coal, finalizing only the power plants already in pipeline, in all…
2 February 2024
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Found unpublished documents proving that the American fossil industry was aware of the impact on the…
1 February 2024
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…
30 January 2024
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…
11 January 2024
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…
10 January 2024
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
Climate Change
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