Mexico, environmental activist and Goldman Prize winner killed for fighting deforestation
Dopo anni di resistenza pacifica Isidro Baldenegro López, leader della popolazione indigena locale che cercava di fermare il disboscamento, è stato ucciso.
2016 was the hottest year on record, according to NASA and NOAA
2016 broke yet another record: it was the hottest year since measurements began in 1880. After 2014 and 2015, it was the third year in a row that registered record temperatures. 2016 was 0.87 degrees warmer than the average of the 1880-2015 period and 1.1 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels (19th century). 2016 was the hottest
Sea Shepherd catches Japanese fleet killing whale in sanctuary in Australia
L’organizzazione conservazionista ha intercettato la flotta baleniera giapponese nel santuario delle balene nell’Oceano Antartico, area in cui è vietata la caccia ai cetacei.
How ocean warming will kill fish, make them smaller and potentially toxic
Ocean warming, driven by increasing carbon emissions and rising temperatures, may become one of the biggest challenges facing humanity and threatening the Earth’s life systems, affecting even those living far from oceanic coasts. Already impacting people, fish stocks and crop yields, it may lead to more extreme weather events and increased risk from water-borne diseases including cholera. Fuelling
Huge iceberg poised to break off Antarctica, changing the map of the world as we know it
A huge iceberg measuring 5,000 square kilometres, roughly the side of the US state of Delaware, is set to break off the Antarctic Peninsula. When this happens, the ice shelf Larsen C – a floating platform of ice formed by the flow of land-based glaciers or ice sheets into the ocean – located in West Antarctica will
Arctic, the last frontier. Venice hosts a photo exhibition showing its beauty and adversity
One hundred and twenty pictures depicting powerful stories will be shown during the Artico, ultima frontiera (Arctic, the last frontier) exhibition that will be held from 15 January to 2 April 2017 in Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy. The Arctic is a vast region of our planet that includes Greenland, Siberia, Canada, Alaska and Iceland, and plays an
Asiatic cheetahs are desperately racing toward extinction
In Iran sopravvivono appena cento esemplari di ghepardo asiatico, specie minacciata dalla perdita di habitat, dalla riduzione delle prede e dal conflitto con i pastori.
California, the famous giant sequoia Pioneer Cabin Tree has collapsed
It was the icon of the Calaveras Big Trees State Park: the drive-through ancient sequoia, with a tunnel running through it, was felled by the bad weather that hit the region recently.
Barack Obama designates two new protected areas in Utah and Nevada
Il presidente uscente degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato la creazione di due nuove riserve naturali, per proteggere aree considerate sacre dai nativi americani.
Water pollution, Zambian villagers sue mining giant Vedanta in UK court
1,800 villagers living downstream the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in the Zambian Copperbelt region are demanding an end to 12 years of pollution near the town of Chingola and KCM’s Nchanga copper mine, which has turned the adjacent Kafue into a river of acid. The villagers are suing Vedanta, a London-based mining group, and its subsidiary KCM in