Ignacio Echeverría   The motto ‘Take smoke; make water’ serves as pretext to reflect upon pollution in cities, giving rise to an occupation strategy that aims to create clean zones there where they are most needed. The idea is to generate an active skin composed of chem

National Geographic   Alejandra Borunda   At this year’s U.N. climate conference in Egypt, COP27, Pakistan and a group of other frustrated developing countries are pushing to develop a pool of money for “loss and damages.” It would be a fund, financed by the developed nations most responsibl

The Guardian   Microplastics from Africa and North America found airborne in French Pyrenees, 2,877 metres above sea level. From Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench, microplastics are everywhere – even high in the Earth’s troposphere where wind speeds allow them to

The New Yorker   Matthew Hutson   Steel production accounts for around seven per cent of humanity’s greenhouse-gas emissions. There are two reasons for this startling fact. First, steel is made using metallurgic methods that our Iron Age forebears would find familiar; second, it is p

The Economist   The air breathed by an average Pole may not be Europe’s dirtiest. According to the European Environment Agency, Balkan nations like Serbia do worse on metrics like years of life lost per person. However, Poland’s effluvia stand out for their geograph