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The hunt for the so-called "critical raw materials", i.e. the elements necessary to assemble batteries and more generally almost any type of technological device, is also starting on European soil.Yesterday the Italian Council of Ministers approved a law decree to join the race.Cobalt, copper, lithium, magnesium, graphite, nickel, silicon, tungsten, titanium and others:there are 34 "critical matters" defined as fundamental for the European and Italian future, of which 17 are considered "strategic".Materials that the government deems necessary to "promote the digital and green transition" of the national industry, and which it now wants search right underground Italian.According to the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso – driving force behind the legislative decree together with the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin – in Italy we have at least 15 critical subjects.Some resear...

In Brazil there is a mission that is the result of collaboration between researchers and indigenous populations and which aims to protect Amazonian primates: this is the Reconecta Project, which was conceived by the biologist and winner of the 2024 Whitley Prize Fernanda Ambra and involves the construction of "bridges" aimed at connecting the crowns of the trees located on both sides of the road that runs through the states of Amazonas and Roraima, thus allowing the fauna local area to cross avoiding the risk of investment, which is in fact one of the main causes of death for primates in the region.Working on the project is «a wealth of knowledge and a wonderful learning experience» according to the biologist, who underlined the importance of involving traditional communities as «they know exactly what is needed to protect the forests». Brazil is facing an environmental dilemma that is anything but indifferent in that it has one of the largest road net...

In Brazil, the police launched a large operation (called Operation Greenwashing), the largest of its kind ever built in the country, to dismantle "a criminal organization" that for over a decade allegedly sold carbon credits from illegally invaded areas for a total value of 34 million dollars (approximately 180 million reais).The operations are the result of an investigation lasting over a year which shows the links between REDD+ projects and a scam for the recycling of illegally obtained timber.At the center of the investigations are the Fortaleza Ituxi, Unitor and Evergreen project, all related to the Ituxi Group, one of the largest carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon.The group is chaired by Ricardo Stoppe, whose suspicious activities had already ended up at the center of a journalistic investigation.The credits sold by the group were purchased not only by various Brazilian companies, but also by some international ones such as Toshiba, Spotify and Boeing. Stoppe...

Accepting the appeal advanced by the environmentalist associations Italia Nostra, Mountain Wilderness Italia and Lipu against a sentence pronounced by the Veneto Regional Administrative Court, the Council of State has restored the landscape restrictions on the Municipalities of Comelico and Auronzo (Belluno) placed in 2019 by a decree of the Ministry of the Environment.The administrative judges have therefore established that speculative projects cannot be started in a vast area of ​​the Dolomite Park, a UNESCO heritage site, which constitutes one of the most important portions of our country from a landscape point of view.In this way, the construction of ski lifts and a ski connection between Comelico and Pusteria which had previously obtained the green light was officially called into question. In 2022, the TAR had agreed with the municipalities of Auronzo, Comelico Superiore, Santo Stefano di Cadore, the Province of Belluno and the Veneto Region - supported by Confindust...

Drought and above average temperatures have created the perfect conditions for the birth of spontaneous fires