Tag: climate
Why they block traffic for the environment and who are the activists of the “ last generation ”
Don’t call them activists, but rather what they are: “Terrified Citizens”. Girls and boys, adults, beekeepers and students, farmers and employees, people aged 17 to 70 convinced that they are perhaps the last generation that will survive the climate crisis, this is the name they have given themselves. A group of citizens who, finding themselves…
Read MoreThe warmer the ocean, the hungrier the predators are
It is said that with the heat, hunger passes. It may be true for us humans, but apparently it is not true for marine predators: according to a study just published in the journal Science by a group of researchers from Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (Serc), in fact, the warming of the oceans due to…
Read More“Drought is now inevitable, we will have to get used to it. Even rain would not solve the problem now”
Dry rivers starting with the great Po, water rationed in houses, parched fields. But if this is the picture in mid-June, a week before the official start of summer, then what does the “good season” of 2022 have in store? “The forecasts of the European Center for Medium-Term Meteorological Forecasts speak for themselves: we will…
Read MoreThe increase in temperature facilitates the spread of ticks in the mountains and around the world
The increase in global temperature has unexpected implications also in the spread of annoying anthropods, ticks, which can damage the health of unsuspecting tourists and the inhabitants of the Alpine areas affected by the phenomenon. An excessive alarm bell? Perhaps, but some calls for caution have been launched by the health authorities of some Italian…
Read MoreThe salty Po and the limits of adaptation
It is an alarm that we have all read about in recent days: in the Po delta, also thanks to its low level due to the drought of recent months, sea water is “going up” the river. In reality, already the rise in sea level and the strong draining of water of the last decades…
Read More“The Karipuna are fighting for a better world, you should learn from us Indians”
“I am a leader, I am a fighter and even if they kill me my blood will be like seed. We Karipuna will not leave our land: Brazil and the Planet need us, our true love for Nature”. Adriano Karipuna, 36, combines jeans, shirt and jacket with the typical headdress of the populations of the…
Read MoreTo stop the loss of biodiversity, 44% of the earth must be protected
A study with new data, essential for evaluating how to achieve the EU goal of bringing biodiversity back to Europe on the road to recovery by 2030, and fundamental indications to do so so that the actions are lasting because they involve the populations of the territories to be protected. The group of the biologist…
Read MoreSaving the Planet is now worthwhile
If sustainability was looking for a people, it found it at the Green & Blue Festival. For two days at the Teatro Parenti in Milan, environmentalists and companies, mayors and ministers, scientists and visionaries met. We discovered that there is a network of families that organizes itself every day to reach the goal of zero…
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