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Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution: The Meeting is Set for 2025
In Busan, South Korea, the latest round of negotiations decided to go into "extra time." The treaty was initially set to be finalized this year, but delegations…
Editorial Team•3 December 2024
Pollution
The “Plastic COP” is about to…
On Sunday, December 1st, the INC-5, the 5th and final round of…
Editorial Team•29 November 2024
Pollution
Here is the biodegradable supramolecular plastic…
Japanese researchers have developed a new durable plastic that will not pollute…
Editorial Team•28 November 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…
29 May 2024
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…
28 May 2024
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…
15 May 2024
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…
10 May 2024
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…
6 May 2024
Pollution
Companies must have a plan against microplastics losses
According to a regulation approved yesterday by the EU Parliament, companies of all sizes will have…