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Romania, Pollution, Environment
Targeting Carbon Neutrality: shoot for the moon to land among the stars
Targeting Carbon Neutrality: shoot for the moon to land among the stars
Photo credit: Tim van der Kuip on Unsplash Moving towards climate neutrality, which includes a net-zero greenhouse gas impact, is not easy.
Cleaning up behind the fashion industry
Cleaning up behind the fashion industry
The European fashion industry is a huge consumer of fresh water. Estimates point to 600 million cubic meter of fresh water being consumed yearly in Europe by the textile and clothing industry ; not a negligible amount.
Saving the blue waters pouring into the Black Sea
Saving the blue waters pouring into the Black Sea
The Black Sea is known for its severe environmental degradation. Some signs of recovery have been observed in the last years, albeit on a small scale . Scientists believe that it is still possible to limit the negative environmental impact.
Can enamels’ environmental impact truly be reduced?
Can enamels’ environmental impact truly be reduced?
Enamel cookware is ubiquitous. The trouble is that enamels —like other vitreous substances, or frits, used in making porcelain or ceramic glazes— are produced through a process generating highly toxic chemicals .
Gasping for oxygen
Gasping for oxygen
In 2010, nearly two tons of fish was found dead due to lack of oxygen on the coastal line of the Romanian Black Sea.  Oxygen depletion , or hypoxia , occurring in the water is thought to be responsible.