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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…
Editorial Team•27 June 2025
Pollution
The carbon emissions quota for staying…
The carbon emissions quota to limit global warming to 1.5°C could run…
Editorial Team•20 June 2025
Pollution
Centuries-old sea mercury pollution threatens Arctic…
Mercury released by human activities such as coal combustion and gold mining…
Editorial Team•16 June 2025
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
Pollution
At Christmas we are all more… pollutants: +133% pollution freight transport
The transport of goods to Christmas generates an increase of 133% of pollution due to the…
21 December 2022
Pollution
Kansas has the biggest onshore oil leak in the last 10 years
The oil leak is almost equal to all of the previous 22 leaks of the Keystone…
15 December 2022
Pollution
US$3.7 billion plan for direct air capture CO2
Almost all the investment -3.5 billion $- will finance 4 major regional hubs to develop commercial-scale…
14 December 2022
Pollution
Plastic at sea: “Every week we eat the equivalent of a plastic…
During the Polieco International Forum on the Waste Economy, the alarm of the world of science…
10 December 2022
Pollution
The neighborhood with the best air quality? Tell you the grass and…
A study by the University of California Riverside uses the amount of radiocarbon in roadside grasses…
8 December 2022
Climate Change
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