The unresolved issue: living next to a polluted site
Many places in Europe have been contaminated by companies which, despite sometimes having been “ordered” to carry out remediation, fail to compensate residents for the damage caused to t...
Startup: NitroCapt develops sustainable nitrogen fertilisers
NitroCapt, a Swedish agri-tech company, aims to transform one of the most polluting sectors of agriculture: the production of nitrogen fertilisers. Winner of the prestigious $2 million Food Planet P...
Strait of Hormuz: from helium to aluminium, the non-oil raw materials crisis
Rotterdam - “If the port is doing well, our economy is also doing well,” said Ursula von der Leyen in September 2022, discussing the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. At the time, Eu...
PFAS: inaction will cost the EU €440 billion by 2050
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”, ...
Animal testing: Nearly 400,000 fish used in EU chemical tests
A total of 382,000 fish have been used in completed, ongoing and pending tests required under the European REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) to ...
Asbestos, thousands of schools contaminated: Italy is lagging behind in removal
The bell doesn't ring. Doors are closed and classrooms are empty, not because of a strike or technical malfunction, but because of asbestos lurking in the floors. This happened at the Tasso Institut...
Molecular Architecture Wins Chemistry Nobel 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors a scientific breakthrough that could reshape how humanity interacts with its environment. Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have been awarded fo...
PFAS, the “forever chemicals” that challenge science and the environment
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Resistant to water, grease and high temperatures. But also indestructible, “silent” an...
Silent danger: researchers tackle chemicals that threaten health and fertility
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Professor Majorie van Duursen, a Dutch environmental health expert and toxicologist, has her sight...
PFAS, European water is becoming increasingly polluted: the data from the first EEA briefing
This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On 9 December 2024, just a few week...
Bhopal, the disaster in India continues after 40 years
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Rehana Bi is a 55-year-old Indian woman. When she was 16, she tells radio station Npr, she was str...
Pesticides, Europe uses “guidelines written by the chemical industry”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In the last 22 years EU officials have failed to stop any single pesticide, despite laws supposed ...
Decarbonising Cement Thanks to Carbon Capture: interview with Sergio Tortelli
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano According to the International Energy Agency, the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions in cement ...
Artificial Intelligence Revolutionises the Lab
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Once upon a time, not so many years ago, there was the chemical research laboratory. Nothing scien...