Giorgio Kaldor

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano ‘Mineral’ does not necessarily mean pure. In recent years, there has been much talk about the presence of microplastics in water. Several studies, such as those conducted by Columbia and Rutgers Universities in the United States, have shown that a litre of bottled water can contain up to 100 times more nanoplastics than previously estimated, with an average of nearly 250,000 fragments.

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Would you turn off your thermometer in the middle of a fever? That is what is happening in the United States, where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the “retirement” of its renowned public database on climate and weather disasters that caused at least one billion dollars in damage – a resource that has been active for more than four decades.

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There is a place in Chile’s Atacama Desert where the power of the sun never seems to set. It is the Quillagua photovoltaic power plant, officially inaugurated on 8 April in the municipality of María Elena, in the Antofagasta region, in the north of the country. This is no ordinary facility.