The situation of glaciers around the world is worrying. Yesterday news came that the Milne ice shelf, on the northwest coast of Ellesmere island of Nunavut, Canada, disintegrated, splitting into two large pieces and letting large blocks of ice...
During 2020, treatment plants started recovering almost 480 thousand tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). This is what emerges from the WEEE Management Report 2020, which summarises the results of the annual declarations made by the plants...
What we can do to deal with the climatic emergency? The debate is heated not only among scientists but also in the Italian political world, that has fully approved the motion elaborated by the majority, which asks the government...
Are the packages of measures that all the countries of the world are launching to overcome the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic able to stimulate an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive recovery? The G20 countries have a key...
The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat. Following the coronavirus pandemic, the Asian nation is developing food safety guidelines...
Air pollution costs the average European city resident €1,276 per year, according to the largest study of its kind.
The report for the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) quantifies the monetary value of premature death, medical treatment, lost working days...
Reduction of marine litter, blue economy, protection of
biodiversity and protected marine areas, containment of climate change: these
are some of the issues at the center of negotiations currently underway in Naples,
in the halls of the Castel dell'Ovo, among the delegations...
Easter has a different flavor this year. Many will not eat the typical dishes they are used to eating on this occasion, families will not get together and many will spend the holidays alone. It is the fault of...
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...
Plastic pollution damages the environment, valuable
materials are lost, and cleaning up is very difficult. There is also a growing
concern over micro- and nanoplastics impact on animals and humans.
The Italian environmental advocacy association Legambiente
has said that plastic accounts for over...
