"For decades, the water sector in Italy was managed by municipalities, rather than being entrusted to a series of companies, governed by a nationwide body, Arera, as is the case today. This led to a...
A crucial part of Italy's energy future is currently being built under the sea. An invisible network of cables connecting islands, regions and even continents, making the national electricity grid m...
Marine Cornelis is Digital Ambassador of the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), Executive Director and founder of Next Energy Consumer, an organisation dedicated to putting citizens at the he...
Can the law serve as a tool to halt ecological collapse? Can it shape professionals who defend life—not just in courtrooms, but in communities? In the midst of a climate crisis and deep territ...
Every time you open a bottle of fruit juice or water, or a can of beer, or a bottle of wine, there’s an invisible ally at work, preserving the quality and shelf life of the drink: nitrogen. It...
In the meat industry, as in other sectors, supply chain integration is a fundamental prerequisite for developing circular economy models. This is the path followed by Inalca, a subsidiary of Gruppo ...
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Refrigerant gases are the invisible protagonists of our daily lives. From household refrigerators to supermarket aisles, from office air conditioners to pharmaceutical cold storage: wherever tempera...
In Argentine school maps, coloured in the national colours, Antarctica appears marked by a white triangle stretching from Ushuaia to the South Pole. Chilean maps show another triangle, overlapping t...
As predicted since the 19th century, the planet is undergoing a dramatic rise in global temperature. The last 10 years have been the hottest ever recorded in history. However, the term “global...
“We earn around $200 [€175, ed] a month, and every expense has to come out of that,” says Francis Tenor, president of the Boase Sibi cocoa cooperative in Ghana’s Eastern ...
Alkelux is a deep tech start-up established in Sardinia in 2024 whose mission combines sustainable chemistry, the circular economy and the fight against food waste: transforming an industrial by-pro...
On July 29, METLEN Energy & Metals announced a long-term deal to supply approximately 25% of the annual gallium output expected from its planned production facility in Greece. The agreement was ...
MAIRE has secured its first large-scale contract in Argentina, strengthening its international footprint through a €1.3 billion award for the development of what is set to become the largest ur...
The starting point, as Pierluigi Zerbino explained to an audience of businesses and academics, is disarmingly simple: “We asked ourselves: can the circular economy help to decarbonise the cons...
There is an image that recurs in the winning project from the Manifesto for Shared Futures course: a student standing still, motionless, in the middle of a street in Milan, whilst around him the cit...
The 2026 Renewable Materials Conference has a clear focus: how to defossilise the chemical industry through renewable carbon strategies and innovation across different industrial sectors. The confer...
At the end of November 2025, as the COP30 UN climate negotiations closed in Belém, the most notable absentee was the delegation of the United States – about to formally withdraw from th...
2026 will go down as a landmark year for FS Group for the major acceleration and complexity of the transformation of Italy’s rail network. From the 11.6 billion euros in investment mobilised i...
Richard Heinberg, one of the most important American environmental thinkers of this century, died on Sunday, July 19, at the age of 75, from pancreatic cancer diagnosed just two weeks earlier. It wa...