Environment

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

Revolutionary aerogel absorbs water vapor from the air and converts it into liquid, offering a sustainable, low-cost solution to freshwater scarcity.

Rinnovabili • Global Warming Could Increase Tsunami Risks in the Mediterranean by 30%
Climate Change
Global Warming to Increase Tsunami Risk…

Global warming is set to heighten tsunami dangers in the Mediterranean by…

Rinnovabili • Can CDR Technologies Be Scaled Despite Their Current Immaturity?
Climate Change
Can CDR Technologies Be Scaled Despite…

A report from the Bezos Earth Fund, developed with insights from over…


Rinnovabili • Marine Protected Areas
Water Management
80% of Marine Protected Areas in Europe Are Ineffective

Most marine areas with restrictions on human activities fail to significantly reduce the pressure on marine…

Rinnovabili • Data center emissions
Pollution
Data center emissions: by 2030 they will pollute as much as India

Morgan Stanley forecasts that the surge in large-scale data centers will significantly increase their emissions, reaching…

Rinnovabili • Cost of the climate change
Climate Change
Cost of the climate change in Africa already nears 9% of GDP

Extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and intense, along with the need to adapt…

Rinnovabili • CO2 Capture and Storage
Climate Change
Realistic Global Capacity for CO2 Capture and Storage: New Study Reveals Limits

A study published in Nature Communications provides an estimate of the global maximum capacity for CO2…

Rinnovabili • Forest ecosystems and climate change
Climate Change
Forest ecosystems and climate change

Is it possible to protect forest ecosystems from the effects of climate change? A study has…

Rinnovabili • Remove nanoplastics
Pollution
Remove nanoplastics from water with an efficiency of 98%

Create a new technology capable of removing nanoplastics from contaminated water, with an efficiency close to…

Rinnovabili • Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to worsen?
Climate Change
Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to…

A new study from the JRC examines the effects of climate change on temperature-related morbidity and…

Rinnovabili • microplastic pollution
Pollution
How microplastic pollution destroys coastal plants

Goodbye coastal ecosystems: the combined impact of microplastic pollution and floods caused by climate change is…

Rinnovabili • Record temperature for the Mediterranean
Climate Change
Record temperature for the Mediterranean with an average daily climb of 30…

On 15 August a record average temperature for the Mediterranean Sea of 28.9°C was recorded, higher…

Rinnovabili • Amazon forest
Environment
The greatest danger to the Amazon forest is not deforestation

A PNAS study provides the first accurate estimate of the specific impact of the various anthropological…

Rinnovabili • health of oceans
Climate Change
Financing a research programme to safeguard the health of oceans and corals

Protecting corals and the health of the oceans is the goal of the Big Ideas for…

Rinnovabili • remove heavy metals from water
Water Management
So nature teaches science how to remove heavy metals from water

An international team of researchers has figured out how to remove heavy metals from water by…