Environment

Rinnovabili • Wildfires and Climate Change: A Growing Threat to Los Angeles
Climate Change
Wildfires and Climate Change: A Growing Threat to Los Angeles

In just 48 hours, wildfires have swept through urban areas in northern and western Los Angeles, leaving devastation in their wake. Five lives lost, over 100,000 displaced,…

Rinnovabili • Climate Change in 2024: 550 Billion in Water Disaster Damages
Water Management
The Water Cycle Is Out of…

Global Water Monitor 2024 Highlights the Devastating Impact of Climate Change on…

Rinnovabili • Aerogel: A Low-Cost Solution to Freshwater Scarcity
Water Management
Freshwater Shortage? Extract It from Air…

Revolutionary aerogel absorbs water vapor from the air and converts it into…


Rinnovabili • periurban forests
Pollution
Does planting trees save the Planet? Yes, if they are periurban forests

A global satellite analysis with a definition of 500 meters identifies areas within 10 km from…

Rinnovabili • Climate disasters
Environment
Climate disaster costs to double in 10 years

Damage caused by mega-storms (convective storms), especially those associated with hail, is growing rapidly in Europe.…

Rinnovabili • pharmaceutical waste
Pollution
A plasma detector to identify pharmaceutical waste in water

Plasma resonance can identify pharmaceutical waste in drinking water and safely remove it

Rinnovabili • climate change
Environment
In Europe too, climate change will increase the price of food

Only because of the heat waves of summer 2022, food inflation in Europe grew by 0.67%…

Rinnovabili • excess deaths from heat
Environment
A handful of fossil companies will cause 11.5 million excess deaths from…

The summer of 2022 in Europe claimed more than 60,000 lives due to heat waves. About…

Rinnovabili • microplastic pollution
Pollution
A clear green light to cut 30% of microplastic pollution

The January environmental disaster in Galicia led to the adoption by a large majority of the…

Rinnovabili • EU car emissions
Pollution
EVs cut EU car emissions by 5% in 2022

The downward trend started in 2020, after 4 years of increases in average emissions, has been…

Rinnovabili • climate adaptation
Environment
AI-enabled compass to push investors towards climate adaptation

The tool presented by the non-profit organization Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment Group (GARI) is able…

Rinnovabili • Methane emissions
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…

Rinnovabili • pollution from PFAS
Environment
With this method eliminating pollution from PFAS costs 100 times less

A group of scientists from the University of Rochester have found an economic way to decontaminate…

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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…

Rinnovabili • carbon budget
Environment
We have a larger-than-expected carbon budget for 1.5 degrees

Before we pass the two thresholds of the Paris Agreement, we still have 812 GtCO2eq and…