Rare sun bear caught on camera in Myanmar
Grazie alle fototrappole dell’Istituto Oikos è stata confermata la presenza dell’orso malese nelle foreste del Myanmar.
World Pangolin Day, let’s help protect the world’s most trafficked mammal
L’obiettivo della ricorrenza è diffondere la consapevolezza sui rischi che corre il pangolino e far conoscere questo buffo animale al grande pubblico.
Sweden pledges to cut all greenhouse gas emissions by 2045
Il governo della Svezia ha annunciato un piano per azzerare le emissioni nette di gas ad effetto serra. “Compensiamo i passi indietro di Donald Trump”.
On 17 February we celebrate cats
If you have got cats, you’ve surely caught them staring into space or staring at a wall as if there was something in it. “It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see,” wrote the British poetess Eleanor Farjeon. We could learn a lot from them, including variable concepts such as time and the importance of
Oroville Dam crisis, why 200,000 people near the US’ tallest dam are in danger
With its 230 metres (770 feet) the Oroville dam in California is the tallest in the United States, lying about 240 kilometres (150 miles) from San Francisco. On the 7th of February operators noticed damages to the main spillway, channel used to control the release of water from the basin, flowing into the Feather River. After they slowed
The photos of the newly discovered reef in the Amazon River
Lo scorso anno un gruppo di oceanologi statunitensi e brasiliani ha scoperto una barriera corallina dove si pensava non potesse esistere: nel Rio delle Amazzoni.
Hundreds of pilot whales die in one of New Zealand’s largest whale strandings
The news of a mass whale stranding (at least 400 pilot whales) at Farewell Spit, New Zealand, had the world talking about its extent. Over the past week, hundreds of volunteers and NGOs tried to bring as much pilot whales as possible back to sea, but at least 300 of them were already dead when
How Trump’s wall on the US-Mexico border threatens wildlife
Dagli ocelot ai giaguari fino alle civette nane. Il muro potrebbe avere gravi conseguenze sulla fauna che vive al confine tra Usa e Messico.
Cities are where the future happens first. An open letter by the mayors of Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and Cape Town
By Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo Patricia de Lille, Mayor of Cape Town The next four years will be crucial in determining if the world can avoid the worst impacts of climate change, keeping the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees. As the
Canada, free entry to all its national parks for the whole of 2017
Per festeggiare il 150esimo anniversario del Paese il ministro dell’Ambiente ha annunciato che i 47 parchi del Canada saranno gratuiti per tutto l’anno.