How is nature doing? The news in an EU report
Nella giornata dedicata alla biodiversità, la Commissione europea rivela qual è lo stato di salute della natura.
France, Hollande indicted: he fights for the environment but builds coal plants
A joint report of Oxfam and Les Amis de la Terre accuses France of being “hypocrite: it talks about climate and then it pollutes the Planet by burning coal”.
Watch extraordinary footage of a bee’s first 21 days of life
How do honeybees grow, becoming adult insects? The photographer Anand Varma, together with the laboratory UC Davis dedicated to the study of bees, captured the first 3 weeks of a bee’s life, showing details never seen before. The result is an amazing 60-second time-lapse footage. The video is promoted by National Geographic-Japan, and has been presented by
Damaged pipeline spills 400,000 litres of oil in California
On Tuesday, 19 May, a broken oil pipeline caused an oil spill of about 400,000 litres (105,000 gallons) in Santa Barbara, California. Officials already started removing the oil from rocks and sand, but the bad news is that 80,000 litres (21,000 gallons) are likely to have already reached the ocean. The leak has
Hundreds of kayaks row against Shell in Seattle
Hundreds of environmental activists filled the Elliott Bay, Seattle, United States, on board of kayaks, protesting against the decision of the Dutch oil company, Royal Dutch Shell, of exploring for oil off Alaska during summer. Kayakers formed a chain blockading the port of Seattle’s Terminal 5 in order to impede the Polar Pioneer
Seeds of Time: a documentary to plant the seeds of change
Have you ever heard about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault? It is a storage located in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway, which safeguards about 1 million seeds coming from all over the world, in order to protect them from possible man-made and natural disasters. It is the world’s most important seed bank, guided until 2012 by
Nepal has succeeded in saving the Indian rhino from poachers
Biodiversity is the main character of the other, happy side of Nepal. Although recent earthquakes have had devastating effects on people and cities, animal species seem to have found precisely in Nepal their ideal shelter. The population of Indian rhinos, also called one-horned rhinos, increased reaching 645 individuals this year, and most of
How much does your smartphone “weigh”
Friends of the Earth calculated the environmental footprint of some generic everyday products, including smartphones. Here are the results.
The thrill is gone. Who was B.B. King
He called it Lucille. Just like that girl who caused a fight in a bar in Twist, Arkansas, in 1949, where the then 24 year-old Riley B. King was playing. Amongst the chaos between her two contenders, a barrel of petrol caught fire: King saved his cherished six chord Gibson, challenging the flames. From that
Urban agriculture: how 800 million people fight poverty
800 million people practice urban agriculture worldwide. According to the Fao, almost a billion people grow plants and raise livestock within and around cities. This is a practice that promotes healthy food access to low-income people and helps them save money on groceries, yet it is illegal in many countries of the world. The