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 • microplastics in the oceans
Pollution
What does it take to reduce the levels of microplastics in the…

A study published in Environmental Research Letters estimates that even cutting 20% of the world’s plastic…

Rinnovabili • Thwaites glacier
Environment
Thwaites glacier “breath” anticipates its irreversible melting

One study contests the models used so far to assess the progressive melting of the most…

Rinnovabili • World Biodiversity Day 2024
Scientific Reports
World Biodiversity Day 2024 celebrated today

UN agencies and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) put at the heart of the World…

Rinnovabili • Global warming record
Environment
2000 years of tree rings confirm global warming records of 2023

One study analysed tree growth rings at 15 sites in the northern hemisphere, reconstructing the temperatures…

Rinnovabili • atmospheric water collection
Water Management
More efficient atmospheric water collection with interwoven hydrogels

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute have developed a promising atmospheric water…

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Tech innovations and Startups
Clean hydrogen supply, over 16 million t/a by 2030

The BNEF analysis predicts that by the end of the decade the United States will become…

Rinnovabili • plastic pollution in the oceans
Scientific Reports
There is an unprecedented amount of plastic pollution in the oceans

CleanHub’s study puts all the numbers of plastic pollution in the oceans on the streets, drawing…

Rinnovabili • Marine protected area
Water Management
Marine protected area, 1 in 4 is ghost

A study published in Conservation Letters analyzes the 100 largest marine protected areas in the world,…

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Waste
Swarms of minirobots apply to recover microplastics in water

The problem of microplastics in water could be reduced by using nanoscale robots capable of attracting…

Rinnovabili • CO2 concentration
Pollution
The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has never increased so much as…

Hawaii’s Maunakea Observatory reported record increases in January, February and March. March’s growth over the same…

Rinnovabili • CO2 removal
Scientific Reports
CO2 removal technologies, we need to double capacity by 2050

A study published in Nature Climate Change calculates the CO2 sequestration capacity gap in the mid-century…

Rinnovabili • Climate change
Scientific Reports
Climate change and workers’ health, which categories are most at risk?

Workers' health is at serious risk because of the effects of climate change. This is what…