Cryogenic condensation and recovery of industrial solvents
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter In October 2024, Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation announced a strategic investment in P...
Startup, Kumasi: fighting food waste with premium drinks from cacao pulp
Kumasi Drinks is a Dutch startup that transforms the pulp of the cacao fruit into premium drinks and products. Cacao pulp is the fleshy, juicy part surrounding the beans used to make chocolate, trad...
The Mediterranean seeks a common strategy built on resilience, investment and governance
More than 5,000 registrations, 700 speakers and over 100 panel discussions and workshops: the first Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum wrapped up on Friday 2 October at the La Nuvola Convention Centre. ...
From the Netherlands to Norway: the CO₂ journey reshaping European CCS
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter To understand what is changing in European Carbon Capture and Storage, we need to start in Sl...
The Liquid Gold We Pour Down The Sink
Olive oil, seed oil, corn oil. We use it for cooking, for frying, for preserving tuna or mushrooms, and then we tip it down the kitchen sink, as if it were water. It rarely even occurs to us that fo...
When the Best Ideas Come from a Change of Perspective
Between late September and October, the forests around San Vigilio di Marebbe blaze with reds and golds; the air is crisp, and the days are clear and bright. There are still a few mushrooms left to ...
Decarbonisation: businesses have the tools but are still stalling
Humanity is doing too little, too late, when it comes to mitigating climate change. This was emphatically highlighted by UNEP, which, in its report Limiting Overshoot – Navigating Exceeda...
Rome Initiative on Water launched to strengthen water security in the Mediterranean
This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Rome - The Mediterranean is entering a phase...
Etifor: “Water resilience requires investment and financial tools to scale up”
This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Water is becoming increasingly a matter of r...
Noemi De Santis: “From waste management to water, Junker becomes a multi-utility app”
This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water For a decade, Junker has built its relations...
Technology and the transition: China’s lead over the US is difficult to close
September 2015: for the first time, Xi Jinping is received at the White House by Barack Obama. In Washington, climate and the energy transition are at the heart of a rare period of cooperation betwe...
The 2026 Euromediterranean Water Forum in Rome
The Mediterranean region is preparing to place water at the top of its political and economic agenda. From September 29 to October 2, 2026, La Nuvola in Rome will host the Euro-Mediterranean Water F...
A New Technology Launched for LNG Transport
The inauguration ceremony, complete with the traditional breaking of a bottle on the bow, was certainly conventional. However, the ship being launched aims to be one of the most innovative in the Eu...
China and the USA, the (Im)possible Balance: Interview with Kaiser Kuo
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...
Syngas, the Perfect Middleman
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...
Space Perspectives: the interviews of RM64
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...
The World as Seen from the Moon
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...
A Sustainable Intergalactic Civilisation
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...
Gruppo CAP: Greener Water Infrastructure Thanks to Solar Power
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...
World Cleanup Day 2026: Strive for Five
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. ...