Emmanuel Macron’s message on climate change
The message Emmanuel Macron had sent on climate change started circulating (again) after his election as French president. Here’s the video.
Photographer Paul Nicklen opens a gallery devoted to environmental protection
National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen has opened his first gallery in the city of New York, United States. It focuses on animals, the environment and the risks they both face due to climate change through images shot in diverse areas of the world including the Arctic and Antarctica. I’m taking over the @pewenvironment account this week, starting today on
India, conserving rainwater in subsurface soil to fight water scarcity
Indigenous communities in India’s Rayagada district mitigate the challenges of water scarcity by storing rainwater in subsurface soil. A cheap and concrete solution to a global problem.
Solar geoengineering study could offer a quick fix for climate change
Scientists from Harvard University in the United States are launching the biggest solar geoengineering programme to date, with a view to study the effects of this technology as a potential fix for global warming. The project due to take off in a few weeks consists of spraying sulphate aerosols about 20 kilometres in height into the Earth’s stratosphere.
The trailer of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, Al Gore’s new documentary on climate change
An inconvenient sequel: truth to power è il nuovo documentario di Al Gore dopo Una scomoda verità. Il trailer ufficiale è finalmente disponibile.
The African farmer who brings fresh water to thirsty wild animals
Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, 41, drives a rented tanker truck for more than 50 kilometres at least 4 times a week to bring fresh water to thirsty wild animals at the Tsavo West National Park, Kenya. Zebras, elephants and buffalos wait for him at the water hole. Since November 2016, the farmer brings 12,000 litres of
How much a drop of water is worth. Terre des hommes’ orchards of hope in Myanmar
Come le famiglie di una delle aree più aride del Myanmar coltivano gli ortaggi utilizzando sistemi che usano l’acqua in modo efficiente, risparmiandola. Tra questi c’è anche un progetto di Terres des Hommes Italia.
How much forest we destroy eating hamburgers, according to Mighty Earth
What’s hidden behind a simple hamburger? Hundreds of thousands of kilometres of forest in Brazil and Bolivia that don’t exist anymore, just to start.
Climate change is a fact and women are tackling it
by Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington D.C. Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona Helen Fernández, Mayor of Caracas Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw Zandile Gumede, Mayor of Durban Fumiko Hayashi, Mayor of Yokohama Patricia de Lille, Mayor of Cape Town Clover Moore,
Polar sea ice reaches record low
The Arctic is registering an unusual winter this year. While temperatures hit a new record in November, it is now sea ice cover to have recorded its lowest extent at a time when it should be at its maximum extent. In January 2017 the ice cover was 13.38 million square kilometres, the lowest extent in almost