Environment
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
Alessia Bardi•8 January 2025
Water Management
Freshwater Shortage? Extract It from Air…
Revolutionary aerogel absorbs water vapor from the air and converts it into…
Alessia Bardi•5 January 2025
Climate Change
Global Warming to Increase Tsunami Risk…
Global warming is set to heighten tsunami dangers in the Mediterranean by…
Editorial Team•1 January 2025
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…
Editorial Team•12 August 2024
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…
Editorial Team•9 August 2024
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…
Editorial Team•8 August 2024
Pollution
China to set emission ceiling from 2026
So far, Beijing has only set emission and energy intensity targets, linking greenhouse gases and economic…
Editorial Team•5 August 2024
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…
Editorial Team•3 August 2024
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…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024
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…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024
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…
Editorial Team•29 July 2024
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…
Editorial Team•26 July 2024
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…
Editorial Team•18 July 2024
Pollution
The threat of PFAS in lithium batteries
The battle for decarbonisation may have shadow cones. This is the case of PFAS in lithium…
Editorial Team•16 July 2024
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…