Environment

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Rinnovabili • Global Plastic Pollution Treaty: INC-5, Decision in 2025
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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…

Rinnovabili • Global Plastic Treaty: Negotiations are Failing in Korea
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The “Plastic COP” is about to…

On Sunday, December 1st, the INC-5, the 5th and final round of…

Rinnovabili • Supramolecular plastic, it biodegrades in the sea in 10 days.
Pollution
Here is the biodegradable supramolecular plastic…

Japanese researchers have developed a new durable plastic that will not pollute…


Rinnovabili • underwater robot cleaner
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First underwater robot cleaner in the shape of a jellyfish

At the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart they developed an underwater cleaner robot inspired by jellyfish…

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Health effects of air pollution: if the heart is at risk

A new research has studied the data of 2,025 hospitals in 322 Chinese cities discovering the…

Rinnovabili • Microplastics
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Microplastics compromise the structure of DNA

Enea and CNR test the genotoxic effect of microplastics on plants and animals. The result is…

Rinnovabili • plastic pollution
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Stop new plastic pollution from 2040, the promise of the G7

The Environment Ministers meeting in Japan signed a commitment not to produce new plastic pollution in…

Rinnovabili • Phantom emissions
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Phantom emissions from the Gulf of Mexico: oil & gas pollutes 2…

A study conducted by the University of Michigan compares national inventory data with data collected by…

Rinnovabili • impact of plastics on health
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From leukemia to premature births, the 1st systematic study on the impact…

The production of ever-increasing volumes of plastic is the number one problem. Between 1950 and 2019…

Rinnovabili • light pollution of satellites
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Elon Musk, the light pollution of satellites and the future of astronomy

In a series of speeches on Nature Astronomy, dozens of astronomers denounce the impact of the…

Rinnovabili • deforestation in the Amazon rainforest
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Record in February, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest marks +61.8%

The data of the DETER satellite monitoring system, managed by the National Institute for Space Research…

Rinnovabili • Space pollution
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Let’s tackle space pollution before it’s too late

There are 7,000 satellites in orbit, rising to 60,000 in 2030. And billions of debris and…

Rinnovabili • Methane leaks
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Methane leaks, who are the biggest polluters of 2022?

US, Russia and Turkmenistan are responsible for the largest number of methane leaks from fossil fuel…

Rinnovabili • robot-bees
Tech innovations and Startups
Eight robot bees to save an entire ecosystem, Durham’s bet

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and micro-robotics. These are the ingredients of RoboRoyale, the EU-funded project that…

Rinnovabili • Methane emissions
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Methane emissions: 135 million tonnes for the energy industry

The commitment of the fossil industry is lame but the IEA shows how the oil and…