On 12 July, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Nature Restoration Act and the Green Deal, despite an unprecedented disinformation campaign aimed at stopping it, led by right-wing and conservative politicians and the agribusiness and intensive fishing...
Together
for the environment. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio joins billionaires and
philanthropists like Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs,
and Brian Sheth, co-founder and president of the private equity fund
"Vista Equity Partners", to launch "Earth Alliance".
Launched in response to a...
The environment becomes a fundamental parameter for judging
the liveability of cities in the world. The ranking, compiled by the Economist
Intelligence Unit (Eiu), a research section for the weekly Economist, confirms that
Vienna is the most livable city in the world...
Plastic pollution damages the environment, valuable
materials are lost, and cleaning up is very difficult. There is also a growing
concern over micro- and nanoplastics impact on animals and humans.
The Italian environmental advocacy association Legambiente
has said that plastic accounts for over...
A green skyscraper to safeguard the environment and fight the negative effects of deforestation and the consequent disruption of the carbon cycle. This is the idea of a group of American architects who designed the Carbon Copy, an infrastructure...
In Italy the production of special waste in Italy is growing: the latest available data indicate that production increases by 3.3% (about 4.6 million tons) reaching over 143 million tons. Non-hazardous waste, which represents 93% of the total produced...
The Natura 2000 network includes Special Protection Areas (SPAs) for the protection of birds under the Birds Directive and Sites of Community Importance (SCIs), later designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) for the conservation of habitats and species...
Reduction of marine litter, blue economy, protection of
biodiversity and protected marine areas, containment of climate change: these
are some of the issues at the center of negotiations currently underway in Naples,
in the halls of the Castel dell'Ovo, among the delegations...
An environmental disaster. There are no other words to describe the oil spill that is invading and damaging the waters of the island of Mauritius, off the coast of East Africa. The Japanese ship Wakahisho ran aground in the...
"To overcome the coronavirus emergency and to restart the Italian cities, exceptional answers and solutions are needed. For this, dear Mayors, do not limit yourself to the ordinary, do not give us back the old cities. Your job requires...
