environment

The regional council of Sardinia, chaired by the new governor Alessandra Todde, approved on Monday the bill "Urgent measures for the protection of the landscape, landscape and environmental assets", which introduces a ban on the construction of new energy production and storage plants electricity from renewable sources which directly cause new land occupation for 18 months.In fact, the text specifies that article 9 of the Constitution provides that the Republic, and therefore also the Regions, are called upon to work towards ensuring the safeguarding and protection of the environment and landscape.For years, citizens and networks of Sardinian associations have been mobilizing against the multinationals' assault on the island's territory, whose municipalities have been flooded by authorization requests for the construction of wind turbines and new photovoltaic systems.A battle which, in recent weeks, has begun to intensify again, with an influx of petitions and initiatives in...

The G7 Environment, Energy and Climate meeting in Venaria Reale, on the outskirts of Turin, has officially concluded with the signature of the most industrialized countries in the world - and therefore furthest from achieving environmental objectives - of a final document in which, among the other things, the commitment to "phase out coal-fired power generation” by 2035.An intention which, especially in light of the less than commendable performances of recent years by the actors involved in the environmental issue, smells of farce, and which is formalized in the context of an event staged in a climate of strong repression, as usually happens when protests and protests take place.During the demonstrations, in fact, clashes took place on several occasions between the police and the demonstrators - repelled with water cannons, tear gas and truncheons - which caused several injuries. By examining the findings of the G7 in light of the current state of affairs, the issues c...

There are many associations that, in recent years, have fought against the drama experienced by animals within intensive farming, documenting the violence to which chickens and pigs in particular are often subjected during their lives and before slaughter.The violence, however, also affects other species.This was effectively demonstrated by the latest investigation byessereanimali, which certified with video material the enormous suffering of the animals and the irregularities in veterinary checks within a breeding of trout, sturgeon and eels of the province of Treviso.This precious document constitutes yet another proof of how highly unsustainable the intensive fish farming system is, as many researches and investigations have demonstrated in recent years, placing emphasis not only on the unprecedented suffering suffered by animals, but also on the environmental repercussions of the phenomenon. The images released byessereanimali, shot by a former employee of the farm, they testify th...

There are Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestlé, Danone and many others.Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for almost half of the world's plastic pollution, including 6 companies which alone represent a quarter of the total:this is what emerges from a new study conducted by an international team of scientists including some belonging to non-profit organizations.The research, already subjected to peer review and published in the scientific journal Science Advances, was based on the work of tens of thousands of volunteers who analyzed almost 2 million pieces of plastic waste collected in 84 different countries over a 5-year period from beaches, parks and rivers.This is a research that will focus the magnifying glass on single-use plastic and on the recycling strategies of multinationals since, according to the study's analyses, there is a correlation with direct proportionality between the annual plastic production of companies and the frequency of their brand detected among the wast...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing one of the worst bleaching events since we started monitoring its activity and much of the fauna already shows serious signs of damage due to rising ocean temperatures around the world.The Australian authorities announced this, adding that scientists are still quantifying the high cumulative and irreparable damage resulting from the event.According to the data, the phenomenon reached record ocean depths and the Great Barrier was subjected to a higher level of heat stress than in any six previous mass bleaching events.“The Great Barrier Reef is an incredible ecosystem and, although it has demonstrated its resilience time and again, this summer has been particularly challenging,” commented Roger Beeden, the authorities' chief scientist. The coral bleaching it is that destructive phenomenon that can lead to the death of coral reefs and their ecosystems as the symbiosis between coral polyps and some unicellular algae is missing.Aft...