FSC celebrates sustainable furniture: FSC celebrates sustainable wood-furniture. This is the claim that inaugurates the first European edition of the competition created by the Forest Stewardship Council®, an international NGO that promotes the responsible management of the world's forests,...
Investigating the risk of microplastics in lakes, developing a standardised and innovative methodological framework for sampling, analysing and monitoring the presence of this emerging pollutant in lake waters. This is the aim of ENEA researchers, who until 13 July...
Graphene asphalt experimentation starts in Milan:
Iterchimica, an Italian company which is world leader in the field of asphalt
additives, together with the Metropolitan City of Milan will carry out the
reconstruction of a section of the SP35 Milano-Meda and of a...
Italy confirms itself as the vanguard of the European
recycling industry, ranking third for packaging recovery (with a recycling rate
of 67%), after Germany (71%) and Spain (70%). Several supply chains of paper
(paper, glass, plastic, wood, aluminum and steel) have already...
Enhance the sea as a cultural, scientific, recreational and economic resource. With this goal, the National Sea Day established by Legislative Decree 229/2017 is celebrated on 11 April. "The National Day of the Sea is an important opportunity to...
The largest iceberg in the world, known as the A68, has melted. The ice mountain, which has also become a star on social media, originally covered an area of almost 6,000 square km, an extension slightly less than that...
The World Environment Day dedicated to biodiversity is celebrated today, with the slogan "It's time for Nature". About a million living species (out of an estimated total of around 8.7 million) are threatened with extinction. The current rate of...
One fund for the recovery of wild animals and one for the reclamation of orphaned sites. The last two days have certainly not been a rest for the Italian Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa who has placed two...
A recent WHO study identifies maritime activities among the six major anthropogenic emission sources (out of sixteen) of atmospheric pollutants, both gaseous and in the form of particulate matter, such as nitrogen and sulfur oxides and atmospheric particulate matter...
"The objective of reaching 25% of the agricultural area devoted to organic farming by 2030, indicated by the European Commission in the 'Farm to Fork' could be modified because it contains some contradictions, although several measures contained in the...
