Volkswagen has cheated us all: the environmental damage the fraud has caused

Volkswagen has cheated us all: the environmental damage the fraud has caused

“If Volkswagen cheated in America, couldn’t it do so somewhere else?” wondered Luca Poma in his article published a couple of days ago on the scandal of the German car manufacturer. Just a few hours later, the confirmation. The scandal on VW cheating emissions tests involves 11 million cars marketed all over the world since

Pharrell Williams, musician and producer

Pharrell Williams, musician and producer

Don’t judge a man by his hat (the one Pharrell wore at the 2014 Grammys and which became an international sensation). Williams, born in 1973 in Virginia, U.S.A., is an international music superstar who has teamed up with the United Nations, Al Gore and Sea Sheperd’s Paul Watson on different occasions but always under the

A fistful of dollars for a never-ending environmental disaster

A fistful of dollars for a never-ending environmental disaster

After more than 5 years from the environmental disaster of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, on 20 April 2010, Gulf of Mexico, the British Petroleum (BP) agreed to pay a penalty of 18.7 billion dollars in order to end once for all the legal action the United States and other federal states took after the worst

Damaged pipeline spills 400,000 litres of oil in California

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 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