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Netherlands accelerates its climate adaptation in response to increasingly intense and frequent heatwaves

The sustained increase in temperatures led the Netherlands to...

San Juan faces extreme fire risk: bonfire and fireworks bans, drone surveillance in Spain

This year, the traditional San Juan celebration faces an...

Space debris and its growing impact in Argentina: the environmental costs and risks of an increasing problem

A cloud of fragments, known as space debris, composed of out-of-service satellites and collision debris surrounds the Earth. This phenomenon, driven by the increase...

Japan launches the first wooden satellite to reduce space debris and orbital pollution

The space race faces a new environmental challenge: the accumulation of debris in orbit. In response to this scenario, Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry...

An “invisible tractor” to clean the orbit: what the new device that could end space debris would look like

As space activity multiplies, an invisible risk also grows. In the Earth's orbit, thousands of uncontrolled objects accumulate, making environmental and outer space safety...

A Dangerous Cloud Surrounding the Earth: The Environmental Crisis of Space Debris and Its Consequences

The European Space Agency (ESA) published a visualization that starkly exposes an increasingly serious problem: the accumulation of space debris around Earth. Millions of...

Japanese technology against space junk: they have created an innovative plasma thruster that could be the solution

A Japanese scientist has developed a revolutionary technology to combat the growing issue of space debris. It is a new method that uses a plasma...