Pollutant released by industrial facilities impact on humans and the environment. The seriousness of global warming or health and ecological consequences can be underestimated if only the quantity of pollutants is used17. The global warming potential is strongly dependent on the chemicals’ radiative efficiency, in other words their ability toContinue Reading
(Credit: Unsplash) This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Gabriela de Mattos Laube and Ms. Mariana Fonseca Santana and Ms. Kamila Andrade Santana, two second-year medical students from Universidade Tiradentes, Aracaju-SE, Brazil. They are affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of TheContinue Reading
What follows is a summary of T&E’s report on a European response to the Inflation Reduction Act. The full report can be downloaded on this page. The European Green Deal is one of the world’s most ambitious climate policies to usher the European Union into the net zero economy byContinue Reading
Mohammed Sijelmassi is the CTO of Sopra Steria. Cyber-attacks cost governments, companies and individual citizens hundreds of billions of Euros every year. It is a severe and growing problem, likely to become more damaging as we move to increased automation. So long as cyber-attacks generate financial or political benefit, theyContinue Reading
Between 2004 and 2007, the villages of Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo in Nigeria were polluted with oil from infrastructure built by Royal Dutch Shell. More than 15 years later, in late December, the company finally agreed to pay four farmers and their communities €15m in compensation and installContinue Reading
As 2022 draws to a close, the European defense environment has shifted as dramatically as at any time since the end of the Cold War. Beginning with the launch of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe witnessed the return of high-intensity, industrial-scale warfare to the continent. The outbreakContinue Reading
By Andrew Saks, The People’s SCE Financial services gatekeepers, legacy providers, and regulators have been critical of crypto since the dawn of digital currency. The vitriol intensified when the European Central Bank (ECB) itself took a swipe at Bitcoin in a damning blog in November 2022, titled “Bitcoin’s last stand.” This isContinue Reading
During a recent episode of the Joe Rogan podcast, its host expressed certain premises that, every now and then, came through at the speculative farther edges of his worldview. Of course, he did not intend them as definite truth claims, and I don’t intend the following as an attack; RoganContinue Reading
Introduction On 10 November, the European Parliament (“EP”) adopted a pivotal resolution on esports and video games (“Resolution”), which represents a formal first step to address the importance of these sectors. Though most of the statistics indicate that Europe seems to be chasing other economies in this respect, the EPContinue Reading
Source: Plastics Europe (2022). Click here for different chart formats and data Statistics on the processing activity of Europe’s plastic industry are often assumed to indicate Europe’s level of plastic consumption. This is, however, not the case, as these data relate to the raw material demands of European plasticContinue Reading
