Senegalese lands cultivated using solar irrigation systems
A project supported by the Italian Cooperation in collaboration with Enea. Thanks to solar power, farmers employ sustainable farming methods.
How Gulf wildlife is doing 5 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
La vera portata del disastro ambientale è ancora in fase di studio, la National Wildlife Federation ha però pubblicato uno studio sugli impatti sulla biodiversità.
5 sci-fi car accessories get real
The time has come for cars from the future. Cars talking to the driver, not needing maintenance or even cars using a green fuel get out of screen and get in our garage. Technology has not provided us yet with flying cars or vehicles gliding on roads, defying gravity. Innovation, however, has achieved unexpected goals.
Costa Rica ran on completely renewable energy for 75 days straight
Grazie soprattutto alle forti piogge e all’energia geotermica il Paese centroamericano ha impiegato per oltre due mesi solo energia pulita.
Europe ready for hydrogen cars: the first Toyota saloon presented in Geneva
Hydrogen vehicles are ready for the European and North American market. The Geneva International Motor Show was the first motor show to present vehicles produced with the most innovative forms of energy, starting from hydrogen and going, without any compromise, beyond the limits of hybrid technology. During the show a variety of fuel cell cars
Naomi Klein. This changes everything, not just the climate
Naomi Klein, in her latest essay This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, starts with the basic assumption that without a radical change in the way in which people live, produce and manage their economic activities, there is no way to avoid environmental destruction. 15 years after the publication of No logo, the bible of the anti-globalization
What is fracking (or hydraulic fracturing)
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a technique introduced in the first decades of the 20th century to extract natural gas and oil from shale rocks, i.e. exfoliating rocks that lie deep below the Earth’s surface. How it works Hydraulic fracturing consists in perforating the ground until shale gas deposits are found and injecting pressurised
Shale gas and fracking: methane extracted from rocks
Something is changing in the world’s energy market: shale gas, gas extracted from porous rocks through fracking, plays now the lead role.