Attraction and repulsion, rivalry and complementarity, fascination and misunderstandings. The relationship between China and the United States is now, more than ever, at the very heart of internatio...
In the gas universe, syngas, or synthesis gas – a mixture of gases consisting of hydrogen (H₂), carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO₂), with trace amounts of methane and water vapou...
For issue 64 of Renewable Matter, we invited three leading figures in space research to join us at the Think Tank round table: an astronaut, an astrobiologist and an astrophysicist. We explored econ...
On 6 April 2026, as the Orion space capsule travelled behind the far side of the Moon, four people broke a record that had stood for fifty-six years: they travelled as far as 406,771 kilometres from...
Throughout the history of human civilisation, discovery through exploration has been a fundamental element of its cultural, economic, technical and spiritual evolution. From the brave Polynesian exp...
To combine energy production, consumption reduction, and citizen engagement by transforming wastewater treatment plants into more resilient and energy self-sufficient infrastructures. This is the go...
Twenty-four thousand square kilometres. Five hours. Fifty thousand people. In 2008, that was Estonia's answer to decades of illegal dumping: an entire country cleaned in a single coordinated sweep. ...
Profiting from the melting Arctic ice by extracting oil and gas from one of its most biodiverse seas: this is the fossil fuel development plan the Norwegian government has in mind for the Barents Se...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: Ursula von der Leyen quoted Dickens’s words describing the period of the French Revolution at the opening of her State of the...
For decades, preserving heat to protect people from the cold has been the priority for much of the European construction industry. Today, however, architecture faces a different challenge, one incre...
Yesterday, 15 September, the European Parliament voted on the revision of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU system that taxes the emissions contained in certain goods imported fr...
STEP by Pollutec is a new two-day event launching at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1–2 December 2026, developed by RX France as a focused platform complementing Pollutec, its flagship envi...
18 September 2025 marked a historic milestone for European engineering: the cross-border breakthrough of the exploratory tunnel in the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) for the first time created a continuo...
Work continued late into the night: not usually a good sign in international negotiations, and indeed, on the eve of the negotiations, no one was betting on a successful outcome. Yet in New Delhi, i...
Novamont, a Versalis company (ENI), has published its sixth Impact Report since acquiring benefit corporation status in 2020. Unlike previous editions, the 2025 report introduces a significant chang...
Nature is not external to the economy. Fertile soils, available and good-quality water, functioning ecosystems and biodiversity constitute natural infrastructure on which production, value chains an...
Zero Branco (Treviso) - In a warehouse on the outskirts of Treviso, the word “sludge” no longer means waste. On 11 September, HBI inaugurated EVA 3, the first fully industrial-scale impl...
Cycling among the apple blossoms of the Upper Non Valley, along the cycle path across meadows and small villages, or following the course of the Sarca River from the shores of Lake Garda, along the ...
How can stronger relationships between humans and nature create stronger people, more regenerative places and thriving communities? This is the central question of the 2026 edition of the Biophilia ...
Climate change and air pollution are closely interconnected phenomena, yet they are almost always analysed separately. On the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, on 7 September 2026, the ...