The waves of drought and heat characterized not only the last summer season, but also the autumn. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the scorching heat of summer 2022 caused at least 15,000 deaths in Europe: «Hot stress...
The word "resilience" comes from the Latin word "resilire" meaning to bounce back, to jump back. Originally resilience was spoken of almost exclusively in engineering as the ability of a material to withstand impact without breaking. Today, however, it...
For the "Alberology" column (or better "treeology", from the Italian "alberologia"), I had the pleasure of exploring with forester Antonio De Bona the link that unites trees, and nature more generally, to a discipline that is apparently somewhat difficult...
Art has always been a reflection of reality. The artists express their everyday life with their works, accentuating their particular conditions. The socio-cultural changes (and also climate, now) are reflected in the art that depicts the salient and most...
My research with forester and naturalist Antonio De Bona on the fascinating and mysterious world of trees continues. Today we want to take you on a journey to discover the many symbologies that have for centuries placed the tree...
It is a journey in a camper van starring Gianna, a mischievous "camper girl", and with a crew on board made up of Leone, a cuddly dog, and Paolo Goglio, director and author of the new travelling television series,...
The call for entries for the 'Screen in Green' competition is now online on the website of the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition. This is a film and audiovisual competition set up at the instigation of the Ministry for...
Since ancient times trees have acquired a special meaning for men, who venerated them for their function of connection between the earthly and the otherworldly dimensions, and worshipped them as true gods. In the woods, man immediately found shelter,...
Even poets are taking action for the climate. In fact, the "European Festival of Environmental Poetry" is returning to Rome, just as the UN summit on global warming (Cop26) is being held in Glasgow. The event, organised by the...
We are now - hopefully - out of the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and have begun what I would dare to call a new 'era', that of the 'green' socio-cultural revolution. All great events in the history...
