The wild animals that inhabit the Earth are in drastic decline due to deforestation, unsustainable agriculture and the illegal trade in fauna. The alarm was raised by the WWF which published the new Living Planet Report 2020.
According to the...
The increase in land use does not go hand in hand with population growth and in Italy cement is growing more than the population: in 2019 420,000 children are born and the now sealed soil is growing by another...
In India, school fees are paid for with plastic bottles. It happens in the state of Assam where many low-income families are taking part in a revolutionary program that allows them to use single-use plastic instead of money to...
Climate change is leading to a loss of biodiversity but some
species, both animal and plant, have found a way to counteract the rising
temperatures and have developed survival strategies that allow them to cope
with changing climatic conditions. This is the...
The European Commission has announced an ambition to
generate €1 trillion to finance its European Green Deal.
The commission threw down the gauntlet to EU member states
and the European Parliament yesterday by emphasizing the urgency of pushing
through the climate change funding...
Illegal concrete flows and coastal soil consumption that erase dunes and swallow up meters of sand, bad - and in many cases absent - water purification, uncontrolled poaching. The enemies of the sea and of the Italian coasts always...
We celebrate today, 22 May 2020, the World Biodiversity Day, established in 2000 by the United Nations Assembly to celebrate the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted on 22 May 1992 and to promote global awareness of biodiversity issues.
Diversity is...
More than three people were killed in an average week last
year defending their land and the environment from invasion by industries like
mining, logging and agribusiness. Countless more were silenced through other
tactics designed to crush protest, such as arrests, death...
The measures to combat the coronavirus have led to an approximately 40% reduction in average level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution and 10% reduction in average level of particulate matter pollution over the past 30 days, resulting in 11,000...
A united Mediterranean is needed to reduce marine litter. Not only in the practices of correct waste management and disposal, but also and above all in the policies to be adopted, networking and also replicating the good networking practices...
