On Saturday, 28 March at 8:30 p.m. local time, Earth Hour, one of the largest global grassroots movements for the environment, will bring people together around the world to show their commitment to the planet. With global biodiversity declining at an unprecedented...
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...
A good news for the environment: renewable electricity generation exceeded fossil fuel generation, for the first time ever. In the first half of 2020, renewables – wind, solar, hydro and bioenergy – generated 40% of the EU-27’s electricity, whereas...
The measures to combat the coronavirus have led to an approximately 40% reduction in average level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution and 10% reduction in average level of particulate matter pollution over the past 30 days, resulting in 11,000...
In just 50 years, 2 billion to 3.5 billion people, mostly the poor who can't afford air conditioning, will be living in a climate that historically has been too hot to handle, a new study said. In an unusual way...
University of Cincinnati geography researchers have identified a tipping point for deforestation that leads to rapid forest loss. Geography professor Tomasz Stepinski used high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency to study landscapes in 9-kilometer-wide blocks across every...
"We are all a bit hung up, waiting for the outcome of the Global Stocktake and the final decision that should provide the first formal act of the will to move away from fossil fuels and replace them with...
Covid-19 is now at the center of daily information but has also assumed a predominant role in our life, which has revolutionized, forcing us to avoid physical contacts, to eliminate many forms of sociality, even those related to study, with the closure...
2020 is coming and it's time for analysis. For us, 2019 was the year zero, the one in which we decided to make our small contribution to the environment by putting ourselves at stake with what we know how to do: write...
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...

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