This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP), led by the Northern R...
The peaceful weekend of the US capital, which woke up to its second day of war on a sunny Sunday, contrasts with the scenes seen in Tehran, Tel Aviv, and various capitals of the Gulf countries. Unti...
The Middle East entered a new and destabilizing phase on Saturday morning, 1 March, when Iranian state media confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in his office during the Israeli-US...
Italy is one of the countries in Europe with the highest seismic and hydrogeological risk. According to the ANIA 2024 report, around 40% of residential properties are located in areas with medium to...
A human-centred approach, worldwide cooperation, and wider access to artificial intelligence technologies. The AI Impact Summit 2026 – the fourth, held this year in New Delhi from 16 to 2...
from Bruxelles - An investigation is raising straightforward questions about the democratic stability of the European Union and the role of external influences in its decision-making processes. In t...
Twenty-four pavilions, 125,000 square metres of exhibition space, and 1,056 exhibiting companies, including 315 from abroad. These are the numbers behind Key – The Energy Transition Expo 2026,...
The most recent proposal to revise the European Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (1021/2019 POPs) places a crucial issue for European environmental policies back at the centre of the deba...
Who doesn't remember the cartoon Maya the Honey Bee, first released in the 1970s, in which a curious little bee explores the world with her friend Will? Over the decades, through advertising, t...
Within the agricultural innovation landscape, new technologies are emerging that seek to move beyond an approach to plant nutrition and crop management rooted solely in chemistry. Some of these inno...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared inadmissible a set of appeals filed by companies and associations in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors against the extended producer re...
World diplomacy reduced to a curtain-raiser. That's how one could sum up the first meeting of Donald J. Trump's Board of Peace, held on Thursday, February 19, at the Donald J. Trump United States of...
Stockholm Resilience Centre’s publications are always worth a careful reading. The latest report, “Resilience Science Must-Knows”, focuses on a single concept, widely debated in a ...
From 11 to 19 April 2026, the city of Padua (Italy) will host the first Padova Climate Action Week (PCAW), a week-long programme of climate-focused events spread across the entire urban area. Rather...
Last year, around five thousand people were displaced by the rising water level of Lake Naivasha, 50 kilometres from Nairobi. Similarly happened on Lakes Nakuru and Lake Baringo, located further nor...
Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. has been included for the first time in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2026, following its performance in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). The co...
From the end of World War II, the United Nations and Bretton Woods Institutions dominated the world water order. They facilitated funding for water infrastructure, and they defined norms, institutio...
"Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, ...
Four hundred and forty billion euros. That is the cost that European society risks incurring by 2050 if the current levels of contamination from PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals”, ...
In a video released in November by the CGTN network, five taikonauts (from taikong: space in Chinese) are seen roasting chicken wings on board a space station. “This is the first time in ...
