Environment

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

Global Water Monitor 2024 Highlights the Devastating Impact of Climate Change on Water-Related Extremes

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 • 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 • 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…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Climate Change
July pushes 2024 to new global warming record

Data from the European satellite system Copernicus set the global warming for January-July 2024 at +1,58…

Rinnovabili • Extreme heat deaths
Environment
Extreme heat deaths: 175 000 deaths per year in Europe

Europe is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. It alone accounts…

Rinnovabili • emission ceiling
Pollution
China to set emission ceiling from 2026

So far, Beijing has only set emission and energy intensity targets, linking greenhouse gases and economic…

Rinnovabili • European lithium production
Pollution
Protests against Serbian mine to support European lithium production

While Fiat launches a plant for the electric Panda in Serbia, the European lithium production mine…

Rinnovabili • Earth Overshoot Day
Environment
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024: we consume 1.75 Planets per year

Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024. Global ecological debt has been stable for a decade. But…

Rinnovabili • In 2023 Earth's carbon sink will collapse
Climate Change
In 2023 Earth’s carbon sink will collapse

By 2022, terrestrial ecosystems that naturally capture and store CO2 had absorbed 9.5 billion tonnes. Last…

Rinnovabili • Global warming
Environment
Global warming: 2024 will be the warmest year ever

After the first 6 months of the year that marked new primates of heat, 2024 is…

Rinnovabili • Deep-sea mining
Water Management
Deep-sea mining will leave the ocean bottom without oxygen

A study led by the Scottish Association for Marine Science and conducted in the Clarion Clipperton…

Rinnovabili • Pesticides in drinking water
Water Management
Pesticides in drinking water, how to reduce contamination risks

How many pesticides does our drinking water contain? In the conventional treatment of drinking water, activated…

Rinnovabili • PFAS
Pollution
The threat of PFAS in lithium batteries

The battle for decarbonisation may have shadow cones. This is the case of PFAS in lithium…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Environment
We’ve had a whole year with global warming surpassing 1.5°C

Last month, globally, it was 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial average, and in Europe the global…