Global efforts to reduce air pollution and its effects are given a boost today, the first International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, as extreme episodes of air pollution continue to increase across the globe.
The international day, designated...
Crop and livestock production is projected to decrease and may even have to be abandoned in parts of Europe’s southern and Mediterranean regions due to the increased negative impacts of climate change, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA)...
CO2 emissions have returned to pre-pandemic levels, after peaking to the bottom in 2020. The lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of Covid had led to a general collapse in CO2 production. And, in many industrialized...
Ten environmental protection associations ask the Government to resist political pressure and companies interested in the construction of the work who want the relaunch of the Messina Strait bridge project (abandoned in 2013) and the request that the intervention...
Two weeks into Mauritius’ declaration of the state of environmental emergency, the situation is still dreadful. At least 1,000 tons of fuel were spilt into the Indian Ocean following a massive leak from the Japanese ship MV Wakashio which...
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...
Scientists on a Greenpeace expedition to Antarctica found that the penguins' numbers were falling, with one colony decreasing by 77 percent in nearly 50 years.
“Such significant declines suggest that the Southern Ocean's
ecosystem is fundamentally changed from 50 years...
The New European Bauhaus is part of the NextGenerationEU, the 750 million euro plan launched by the European Union to promote recovery, especially in consideration of the effects of the pandemic on the territory.
Based on the principles of Gropius's...
AzzeroCO2 and Legambiente are meeting tomorrow 9th June at 9.30 a.m. at the Botanical Garden in Rome for the event "Three years of Mosaico Verde: together with companies to reforest Italy, tree after tree".
It is going to be a...
Networks
representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from six
continents have announced that they are declaring a ‘climate emergency’, and
agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the crisis through their work
with students.
The
declaration came in a letter —...
