The situation of glaciers around the world is worrying. Yesterday news came that the Milne ice shelf, on the northwest coast of Ellesmere island of Nunavut, Canada, disintegrated, splitting into two large pieces and letting large blocks of ice...
Critical balance for the two Legambiente Gulets, Goletta Verde and Goletta dei Laghi, which this summer monitored the state of health of the Italian sea and lakes for more than one month. To speak clearly are the data collected...
Italy ever greener: woods and forests today occupy 11.4 million hectares, almost 40% of the national surface: 9.6 million are forests, 1.8 million other wooded areas. In the last 5 years, the percentage increase is 2.9%, in the last...
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...
Yesterday's explosions in Beirut have caused invaluable damage to the Lebanese population and the environment. A few hours after the disaster, Lebanese health minister Hamad Hasan advised anyone who could leave Beirut, devastated by two powerful explosions that left...
Big hands hardened by fatigue and the satisfied smile of those who know they have done something important for the environment. His name is Jadav Payeng, an Indian farmer who with the help of his hands has planted a...
There is a type of pollution that is little known and barely visible that affects a massive amount of children, almost 800 million globally. This is lead poisoning which "with few initial symptoms, silently destroys the health and development...
A good news for the environment: renewable electricity generation exceeded fossil fuel generation, for the first time ever. In the first half of 2020, renewables – wind, solar, hydro and bioenergy – generated 40% of the EU-27’s electricity, whereas...
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...
Redesigning urban areas with high population density and regenerating disused urban areas in a green key: this is the objective of "Prato Urban Jungle", the green architectural recovery project born from the idea of the architect Stefano Boeri and...
