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Pollution
Europe’s Transport Emissions Finally See a “Structural” Decline
Between 2019 and 2024, greenhouse gases from cars, trucks, ships, and planes dropped by 5%, largely thanks to electric vehicles. The analysis by Transport & Environment.
Editorial Team•21 March 2025

Pollution
Waste-to-energy plants in China more polluting…
Waste-to-energy plants in China may emit more CO2 than coal plants due…
Editorial Team•7 March 2025

Pollution
How to Precisely Identify Microplastics in Seawater
A new method for removing plankton from particles is facilitating the monitoring of microplastics in seawater.
Editorial Team•9 September 2024

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…
Editorial Team•5 September 2024

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…
Editorial Team•29 August 2024

Pollution
How microplastic pollution destroys coastal plants
Goodbye coastal ecosystems: the combined impact of microplastic pollution and floods caused by climate change is…
Editorial Team•23 August 2024

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

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

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

Pollution
Canadian wildfires in 2023 polluted 4 times more than all aircraft
The new estimates provided by the World Resource Institute set at around 3 GtCO2 the emissions…
Editorial Team•1 July 2024

Pollution
Air transport has the long Covid: emissions of cargo aircraft +25% on…
A Stand.Earth report reconstructs the shift of logistics from sea to air for freight transport. The…
Editorial Team•27 June 2024

Pollution
PFAS pollution in waters UE is alarming
Pesticide Action Network survey identified PFAS pollution levels in 10 countries above legal limits
30 May 2024

Pollution
Greenhouse gas emissions “pollute the marine environment”: Itlos ruling
The advisory opinion of the independent UN body does not legally oblige states to reduce their…