Making innovative fabrics using the microplastics present in the Antarctic ice: this is the final aim of the Antartic Expeditions 2020 promoted by the Biella Section of the Italian Alpine Club, by the central CAI, by the National Research...
Climate change is leading to a loss of biodiversity but some
species, both animal and plant, have found a way to counteract the rising
temperatures and have developed survival strategies that allow them to cope
with changing climatic conditions. This is the...
Earth Overshoot Day 2020 lands on August 22, more than three weeks later than in 2019, according to Global Footprint Network. The date reflects the 9.3% reduction of humanity’s Ecological Footprint from January 1st to Earth Overshoot Day compared...
The coronavirus pandemic is upsetting habits and ways of life. This difficult period can be an opportunity to rethink our lives, to try to better understand the challenges of our time and learn some lessons. The pandemic is also...
Not only Oceans, where plastic is present in 70% to 90% of waste at sea: the 'indelible' signature of this material, which has accompanied us massively since the 1950s, has even been found in rocks as a distinctive stratigraphic...
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...
According to scientists, after the Bronze and Iron Ages, the current period may become known as the plastic age. They established it through a study that analyzed the increase in plastic pollution in marine sediments, taking the coastal strata...
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...
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...
