Environment

Rinnovabili • Robot batteries: Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung join forces
Scientific Reports
South Korea’s giants team up to build better robot batteries

Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung SDI join forces to develop high-performance robot batteries, aiming to boost efficiency, power, and operating time

Rinnovabili • Climate action impact on GDP: +3% by 2050 with stronger policies
Climate Change
SStronger climate policies could boost global…

Climate action impact on GDP: ambitious policies today mean +3% by 2050…

Rinnovabili • Ocean currents: a near-constant renewable energy source with untapped potential
Water Management
Ocean currents: a near-constant renewable energy…

Ocean currents provide steady, predictable renewable energy, helping reduce fossil fuel use…


Rinnovabili • Clean Technology Market: IEA's 2024 Outlook
Scientific Reports
IEA, Clean Technology Market: It Will Reach the Value of Oil

nergy Technology Perspectives 2024 Published. Based on current policy settings, the global clean energy technology market…

Rinnovabili • Emissions Gap Report 2024: towards 3.1°C of global warming
Climate Change
Respecting 1.5°C is still ‘technically feasible’: data from the Emissions Gap Report…

The annual report from the UN Environment Agency updates the key indicators to assess our remaining…

Rinnovabili • Mining-driven deforestation: 14,000 km² lost in 20 year
Climate Change
Gold, smartphones, and renewables fuel mining-driven deforestation

Since 2001, 14,000 km² of forests have been lost due to mining activities and related operations—an…

Rinnovabili • Since 2001, forest fire emissions have increased by 60%
Climate Change
Since 2001, forest fire emissions have increased by 60%

Warmer, drier climates and higher forest growth rates are factors—linked to the climate crisis—that fuel forest…

Rinnovabili • Plastic Waste: Why do whales mistake it for squid?
Pollution
Whales mistake plastic waste for squid and unintentionally poison themselves

Hunting using acoustic signals to navigate in the deep sea, cetaceans mistake plastic waste for their…

Rinnovabili • Carbon capture: +60% projects in 2024
Climate Change
Global carbon capture capacity remains stalled: only 51 million tons of CO2…

The CCS Institute has updated its global monitoring of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. While…

Rinnovabili • Climate change adaptation: 4 out of 10 EU projects are useless.
Climate Change
For Europe, adaptation to climate change is still a black hole

Report from the European Court of Auditors on actions for climate crisis adaptation. States provide generic…

Rinnovabili • To reduce plastic pollution, we need to produce less and tax packaging
Pollution
To reduce plastic pollution, we need to produce less and tax packaging

The OECD publishes a report proposing to reduce plastic pollution by 96% by 2040 with draconian…

Rinnovabili • Rivers and glaciers never in such agony: the 2024 data on the global water crisis
Water Management
Rivers and glaciers never in such agony: the 2024 data on the…

The annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights the poor state of global water…

Rinnovabili • Vital parameters of the Earth, 25 out of 35 reach extreme records
Climate Change
Vital parameters of the Earth, 25 out of 35 reach extreme records

The “2024 State of the Climate” report highlights a deterioration, with 20 red-alert indicators in 2023.…

Rinnovabili • The LNG imported from the United States pollutes 30% more than coal
Climate Change
The LNG imported from the United States pollutes 30% more than coal

A study by Cornell University calculates the carbon footprint of liquefied natural gas by including all…

Rinnovabili • Microplastics in corals could explain the
Scientific Reports
Microplastics in corals could explain the “missing plastic problem”

Discovered by an international team, microplastics in corals remain trapped for a long time, disappearing from…