A walk in the woods is good for your brain
Una nuova ricerca ha dimostrato che il contatto con la natura inibisce la formazione di pensieri negativi che possono sfociare in gravi patologie come la depressione.
Camilla Soldati
Digital Editor
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Forests and renewables, US and Brazil’s pledge against climate change
Brazil and the United States have reached an historic agreement to put climate change at the top of their governments’ agenda. The meeting between the US President Barack Obama and the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff resulted in the pledge to increase the renewable electricity production by 20% of the total requirements by 2030.
Pets improve our health and could save healthcare systems 4 billion
Gli animali d’affezione contrastano la depressione e le principali patologie croniche, con grande beneficio per la salute e i conti pubblici.
Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’: the encyclical to revolutionise development as usual
The idea of common home makes us imagine a place where citizens are interdependent. A place where people need others’ contribution, but at the same time they cannot do everything they want, as if no limits or responsibilities towards the others would exist. This metaphor is one of the highest moment of the conference
Siena, the Palio of horse death is back
A Siena, ancora prima dell’inizio del Palio, è morto un altro cavallo, il settimo dal 2000 ad oggi.
From No Logo to the Vatican. Naomi Klein joins Pope Francis to fight climate change
During the last-winter presentation of her latest book, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein predicted it: climate change is the last chance for the world to act and change the economic system, the capitalism, which is everything but sustainable for people and the environment. However, she probably didn’t expected that in this battle she would have
The United States says yes to same-sex marriage: the world celebrates equal rights
In the United States is no longer possible do adopt laws to ban same-sex marriage. This is what the American Supreme Court has ruled on Friday 26 June by 5 votes to 4. Before the ruling, 37 states, plus the District of Columbia, already adopted same-sex marriages, but now no state is allowed to not
Biking from Europe to Africa in the name of youth and women
A bike adventure from Europe to Africa, in the name of debate, women and young people. Jilt Van Schayik and his friend Teun Meulepas left Amsterdam, iconic city for bike mobility, in February, to cross 20 countries between Europe and Africa and reach Cape Town the next 12 August, on the International Youth Day.
One of the greatest naturalists interviewed by environmental journalist Barack Obama
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has always been an admirer of the well-known British naturalist Sir David Attenborough, one of the first journalists to make documentaries on the Earth’s beauties for the BBC. President Obama decided to invite him at the White House for his 89th birthday, and to interview him. “I
70 years of the United Nations
Peace, security, sustainable development, human rights, and fundamental freedoms. These key words are the goals the United Nations (UN) have been setting for 70 years, since the moment when 51 nations (later 193, i.e. all world’s independent countries, apart from Vatican City) autonomously decided to sign – on 26 June 1945 – the treaty that