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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Il presidente uscente degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato la creazione di due nuove riserve naturali, per proteggere aree considerate sacre dai nativi americani.
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
Entro la fine del 2017 in Cina sarà vietata la vendita e la trasformazione di avorio per contrastare il bracconaggio di elefanti.
Some of the most significant news stories of the year. From the Paris Agreement to the Colombian peace deal, here’s our 2016 in review: the last 12 months seen through the lens of sustainability.
