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
New Zealand, Maori’s sacred river gets same legal rights as a human being
Il fiume Whanganui, ritenuto sacro dai Maori, ottiene dopo una lunghissima battaglia legale personalità giuridica.
A victory for the Matsés people. Pacific E&P stops oil extraction in the Amazon
The Canadian oil company Pacific E&P, who had been granted the right to explore and extract oil in the Peruvian Amazon by the national government, has halted its exploration activities in block 135 of the rainforest (which is divided into “blocks” of oil and gas exploration). The company released a statement saying it “has made the decision to relinquish its exploration
Water grabbing, a new world atlas maps the most vulnerable areas
Quali sono le aree più a rischio siccità o dove l’accesso all’acqua non è garantito? Un atlante ci mostra dove si verifica il water grabbing, l’accaparramento dell’acqua.
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,
World Wildlife Day 2017. The future of biodiversity is in young people’s hands
La giornata, dedicata alla lotta dei crimini contro la biodiversità e alla sua salvaguardia, è incentrata quest’anno sulla protezione degli elefanti, sempre più minacciati dal commercio di avorio.
Gustavito the hippo has been beaten to death at El Salvador zoo
Gustavito, ippopotamo di 15 anni, era il simbolo dello zoo di San Salvador, settimana scorsa ignoti si sono introdotti nella sua vasca uccidendo l’animale con mazze e coltelli.