Let’s start with the basic data, as simple as they are impactful: more than 70% of the Earth is covered by oceans, irreplaceable source of life and sustenance for humanity and all other organisms on the planet. Oceans are responsible for producing half of the oxygen we breathe, are home to most of Earth’s biodiversity […]
Tag: Environment
Commissioner-Commissioner for the Environment: EU Green Paper makes economies more environmentally friendly
“Only One Earth. Let us stop pretending that there are others – and let us love what we have.” This was stated by Environment Commissioner Virginia Sinkevitsios on APE-MPE, on the occasion of World Environment Day, calling on governments and citizens to participate in the green transition. “People are struggling with high energy prices, the […]
Gregorio Paltrinieri: “I swim to save the sea”
“The sea is art and when I swim I feel like an artist”. As she says it, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Olympic champion in the 1500 freestyle in Rio 2016 and three times world champion, he has Neptune on display in the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, one of the most important in […]
Paris, a cake in the face of the Mona Lisa “for the environment”
A cake against the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It happened yesterday, around noon: a man threw a cream cake against the glass that protects the work. And he would do it for «support for the environmental cause». Several videos of witnesses who witnessed the demonstration gesture, […]
Here comes Ecoflix, the “Netflix of the environment”: series and documentaries that tell the story of nature
If you fear how global warming, species extinction, deforestationthey still seem abstract concepts, click on Ecoflix: you will see with your own eyes the worst that is happening in the world and at the same time the great wonders that we risk losing, but you will also discover how to protect the environment and animalsand […]
Salvamare: a law finally allows us to eliminate plastic from the sea
Until now, fishermen were forced to throw the plastic they caught back into the sea. Otherwise they would have risked a complaint for illegal transport of waste. From now on, this will no longer be the case for seas, lakes and rivers thanks to the law Save approved by the Senate with 198 votes in […]
World Earth Day, Pika’s advice to protect the Planet
Do you know how many liters of water we waste when we brush our teeth without turning off the tap? Six liters per minute. And how much food does each of us waste each year? Thirty kilograms. «A huge waste», as the protagonist child points out together with the youtuber Pika Palindromo in the video […]
Electric Days: how is the ecological and energy transition made?
The Electric Days. The phygital event, in presence and digital, which takes place from 21 to 23 April at the Maxxi (National Museum of 21st Century Arts), entirely dedicated to ecological and energy transition of mobility in Italy. A calendar full of events that will also be broadcast in live streaming. The first day began […]
Tunisia, an oil tanker sinks: fears of an environmental disaster
The environmental risk alarm went off immediately when an oil tanker carrying 750 tons of fuel traveling from Egypt to Malta sank. She had been stranded off the coast for hours already Tunisia. The merchant ship Xelo, flying the flag of Equatorial Guinea, had asked on the evening of Friday 15 April to enter Tunisian […]
Barcelona, ​​smoking will be banned on the beaches this summer
Enough with cigarettes, on the beaches of Barcelona. Since July, the second largest city in Spain it will ban smoking on all its shores: 5 kilometers of coastline. The first smoke-free summer is the natural continuation of pilot test a year ago, when tobacco was banned from four beaches (Sant Miquel, Somorrostro, Nova Icaria and […]