Climate change and global warming are the most important environmental risk that give rise to a whole series of consequences such as accelerated melting of glacier masses, rising sea levels, changes and interruptions in traditional seasonal climatic trends, destruction...
The growth of cities is causing the consumption and loss of a fundamental environmental resource: the soil. However, the phenomenon can be countered by investing in redevelopment and regeneration works capable of transforming abandoned urban areas into active neighborhoods...
2020 will be remembered as the year of the record drop in energy consumption (-10% compared to 2019) and CO2 emissions (-12%), which are now 40% lower than 2005 levels. from ENEA's quarterly analysis of the Italian energy system...
Food waste is a global problem, not just the developed world. According to the new Food Waste Index Report 2021 of the United Nations environment program (Unep) and the British NGO WRAP, "About 931 million tons of food, or...
Even if it is a virtual currency, bitcoins use an enormous amount of energy and are not ecological at all. So much so that last year they consumed the energy equivalent of the whole of Argentina. This was stated in...
Pollution, sustainable fishing, global warming and coastal erosion. These are some challenges at the heart of the strategic agenda of the BlueMed project, coordinated by the National Research Council (Cnr) and funded by the European Union with 3 million...
Reduce, recycle, reuse: this is the motto of the circular economy, which aims to reduce waste by transforming it into new resources. Doing separate collection is the first step to take and, when it comes to separating materials, for...
One year after Microsoft's announcement of the plan capable of making the company "carbon negative", here are the first results presented in the company's Sustainability Report. The challenge of modern society for the present and above all for the future...
The term "greenwashing" is not a recent one. As early as 1986, environmentalist Jay Westerveld used this term to describe his experience in the Fiji Islands. The hotel on the island communicated to protect the coral reef by suggesting...
One of the worst consequences of Covid-19 for the environment is certainly the accumulation of disposable masks which, once used, must be disposed of. If until now the masks ended up, at best, in the mixed waste, now it...

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