Environment
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A plasma detector to identify pharmaceutical waste in water
Plasma resonance can identify pharmaceutical waste in drinking water and safely remove it
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In Europe too, climate change will increase the price of food
Only because of the heat waves of summer 2022, food inflation in Europe grew by 0.67% in three months. Episodes…
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A handful of fossil companies will cause 11.5 million excess deaths from heat
The summer of 2022 in Europe claimed more than 60,000 lives due to heat waves. About 1/3 of all heat-related…
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A clear green light to cut 30% of microplastic pollution
The January environmental disaster in Galicia led to the adoption by a large majority of the rules against microplastic pollution
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EVs cut EU car emissions by 5% in 2022
The downward trend started in 2020, after 4 years of increases in average emissions, has been confirmed. For the 1st…
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AI-enabled compass to push investors towards climate adaptation
The tool presented by the non-profit organization Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment Group (GARI) is able to identify the most…
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Methane emissions: the US pollutes three times as much as they claim
The EPA estimates that about 1% of the volume of gas extracted in the USA is dispersed during production or…
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Micro and nanoplastics could increase the risk of metastases
High absorption and high retention in tissues and cells make micro- and nanoplastics no longer a negligible problem
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With this method eliminating pollution from PFAS costs 100 times less
A group of scientists from the University of Rochester have found an economic way to decontaminate water from PFAS pollution
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We have a larger-than-expected carbon budget for 1.5 degrees
Before we pass the two thresholds of the Paris Agreement, we still have 812 GtCO2eq and 1048 GtCO2eq respectively. 10%…
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