Tommaso Perrone
Editor in Chief
The street artist Louis Michel decided to help those dedicated to raise people’s awareness on problems and risks bees and pollinators have to face, with the project Save the Bees. The artist came up with the idea after a journey in South Africa, where he realised wall paintings of species threatened with extinction. He
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the US government space agency that has always been active in monitoring, defending and celebrating the Earth’s beauties. On the occasion of Earth Day, celebrated on 22 April all around the world, NASA released a series of extraordinary pictures of our planet. The photo gallery includes some of the most beautiful pictures
Today, 24th April 2015, one hundred years have passed since the slaughter of the Armenian people, maybe the most controversial and darkest moment in the history of the Twentieth century. Controversial because it is much criticised and denied. Dark because, at a distance of a century, it is not possible to know exactly
On the 1st of April , California’s Governor Jerry Brown promulgated a series of laws aimed to face the significant drought and water shortage that are bringing California and part of the western United States to their knees. 25% of water for urban use is no longer available. Campus, houses, greens, and other sites used by the richest
In order to curb CO2 emissions and global warming, the vegetation on the Earth is doing its best. Over the last decade, trees and plants all over the world have stored 4 billion tonnes more of greenhouse gases, thanks to reforestation projects in China, to an increase of forests in some countries of the former
Sakura means cherry tree in Japanese. Hanami is a yearly tradition celebrated in the capital, Tokyo, and other cities where these plants decorate the streets, and takes place between the end of March and the beginning of April. The object of everyone’s attention is the thousand-year-old recurrence of cherry trees blossoming, which captivates the entire
Antarctica, otherwise known as the sixth continent, recorded an increase of 70% in the rate of shrinking over the last decade (1994-2003). The thickness of ice shelves in the South Pole is thinner and thinner, and it could even halve within 200 years. The research containing the data was published by Science magazine,
A group of 40 Afghan women passionate about cycling and part of the Afghanistan’s Women’s National Cycling Team is trying to break country’s tradition barriers. The aim is to spread the idea that women can freely practice any sports, despite the conservative society of Afghanistan consider sport as an inappropriate activity for women. Masooma
The Guardian has always been in the front line of environment news coverage. Its Director Alan Rusbridger revealed in an editorial that every month 4 million users inform themselves about the Earth’s health on Guardian’s website. Our planet’s illness is caused by climate change and it is the core problem. For this reason, one
China has become the world’s third largest exporter of arms and has overtaken Germany, France and the UK. This is the most surprising datum of the analysis on the world’s major arms importers and exporters between 2010 and 2014, carried out by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the institute that since 1950 keeps track
