Oasis Photo Contest. Here are the world’s most beautiful nature photographs
Premiate con l’Oscar della fotografia le 100 migliori immagini di natura, provenienti da tutto il mondo. La vita ritratta in tutta la sua magnificenza.
Camilla Soldati
Journalist, Content Coordinator, Digital Editor
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Angelina Jolie visits Syrians in Lebanon: “We can’t help some refugees and not others”
“It is tragic and shameful that we are so far away from that point,” from the end of the Syrian civil war. American actress Angelina Jolie visited Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, at the border with Syria, as a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Aid isn’t enough Her visit, on the
After Berta Cáceres, another murder in Honduras: Nelson García has been killed
Another environmental activist has been killed in Honduras. After the murder of Berta Cáceres, leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) shot dead on 3 March, another COPINH member has been killed: Nelson García, 38. According to COPINH, García, father of five, was killed on 15 March by Honduran
Unexploded mines and bombs. Demining Syria will take 30 years
5 years of war made Syria a land riddled with unexploded mines and bombs. So many that entirely demining the country will require dozens of years of work. This tragic long-term consequence of the conflict has been denounced by the French association Handicap International. In a report published on 15 March in Paris, the organisation
Obama bans oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean
Il presidente degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di non concedere le concessioni per trivellare lungo la costa dell’Oceano Atlantico.
Flights from Europe to the US will be slowed down by climate change
By 2100, flights from London to New York, as well as any other transatlantic flight from Europe to the United States, will be more expensive, longer and more polluting than today. This is due to climate change. In particular, due to the consequences the rise in global temperatures will cause on the jet stream, according
United States, ever more companies are giving their employees time off if their pet dies
No matter if you’re a kid or an adult, the loss of a pet is always a devastating moment. Despite it’s a natural transition, as life and death are complementary aspects of life, mourning requires time. Today’s society, based on the concept of productivity, lacks to offer adequate space and time to manage
South Africa, no leopard will be killed in 2016
Dopo decenni di uccisioni lo stato africano, per motivi scientifici, ha vietato la caccia al leopardo per tutto il 2016.
Palestinian Hanan Al Hroub is the best teacher in the world. She teaches nonviolence
The best teacher in the world teaches about nonviolence to children of West Bank. Hanan Al Hroub, 43-year-old Palestinian woman, was awarded the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2016, the equivalent of Nobel Prize for teaching, during the Educations and Skills Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Hanan al Hroub: her story Al Hroub didn’t study to
Syria, the children’s war told through UNICEF’s photographs
Fotografie e filmati dell’Unicef raccontano il terribile impatto della guerra in Siria sui 3,7 milioni di bambini nati dall’inizio del conflitto.