A new study by researchers at the University of Seville reveals that 100% of children analyzed in the province of Seville show simultaneous exposure to multiple metals during their first two years of life. The research, which monitored a cohort of 100 healthy children born between 2020 and 2022, highlights that even in non-industrial urban areas, "silent" environmental exposure to metal mixtures significantly correlates with deficits in cognitive, motor, and language development.

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated this using the example of the late Tang dynasty in medieval China.

An international study, featuring CMCC scientists, reveals that the true economic damage of climate change has been vastly underestimated – because the ocean has been left out of the equation. By integrating the latest ocean science into climate-economic models, researchers found that accounting for climate impacts on marine ecosystems and ocean-dependent infrastructure nearly doubles the social cost of carbon. The hidden ocean cost is estimated at $48 per tonne of CO₂, a figure that should be added to current policy calculations.

Conducted at the University of Eastern Finland, a new study sheds light on young Finnish environmental activists, discovering that their activist identities are multidimensional and even contradictory at times. 

The researchers identified five key activist identities: the tough activist, the troublemaker activist, the planetary citizen activist, the compulsory activist and the non-activist. The study shows that young environmental activists’ identities are constantly negotiated and can be formed across several activist identity categories simultaneously.