Oslo to create a bee highway
People are increasingly committing themselves to protect one of the Planet’s most important pollinators: bees. And in Norway they are creating a green corridor exactly for them.
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.
France is buried under radioactive waste: “It will triple by 2080”
In the country there are almost 1.5 million cubic metres of radioactive waste. Within the next 65 years there will be 4.3 million cubic metres of it.
Elderly adventurer spends 11 days as castaway on newly formed island
Ian Stuart Argus è stato il primo essere umano a soggiornare nell’isola più giovane del mondo nata da un’eruzione vulcanica in pieno oceano Pacifico.
Climate change is flooding Jakarta: Watch the documentary
Like other expanding megalopolises Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital and most populous city, faces tremendous challenges. High population growth, increasing house prices and land scarcity have reduced the availability of affordable housing. This has forced millions into living in informal settlements, commonly known as slums. Many of these are located along the Ciliwung River, one of Jakarta’s
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
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
Orkney Islands go 100% renewable
L’arcipelago scozzese, grazie all’energia eolica e a quella prodotta dal mare, è riuscito ad emanciparsi dai combustibili fossili.