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New research has shed light on the role played by intensive farming in determining the terrible air quality in Lombardy.The study, published on Environmental Impact Assessment, specifies that cattle and pig breeding could increase even further 25% local air pollution.According to the results of the analysis, in particular, an increase of 1000 livestock units, corresponding respectively to 1% and 0.3% of the average population of cattle and pigs in a given area unit, causes a corresponding daily increase in concentrations of ammonia and PM10 fine particles.The increase resulted more marked in the case of cattle breeding, that is, +0.26 micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m3) for ammonia and +0.29 μg/m3 for PM10, compared to +0.01 and +0.04 μg/m3 recorded for pigs .A particularly important fact, especially if looked at in the current context of policies to combat polluting emissions.For example, it is even more paradoxical that the European Union, under pressure from Italy and...

Tuscany joins the now extensive list of Italian regions contaminated by PFAS. To reveal it a series of samplings carried out independently by Greenpeace which confirm the alarm that had already been launched in 2013 by the National Research Council (CNR) and the Water Research Institute (IRSA).The analyzes conducted by the environmental organization found high concentrations of the contaminant in the region's waterways, especially downstream of the rivers, where the concentration was up to 20 times higher than upstream.«The picture of contamination that emerges from our analyzes is anything but reassuring.Some cases have been well documented for at least ten years, but the Tuscany Region has never seriously addressed the problem:in fact, there is no provision on industrial waste", commented Giuseppe Ungherese, head of the Greenpeace Pollution campaign who also underlined that it is needed as soon as possible start investigations on drinking water.Tuscany is the fourth Italia...

The Nardò Porsche track is back in the news, but this time it attracts the attention of German territories, moving onto an increasingly international stage.On the afternoon of Tuesday 5 March in Stuttgart several environmental associations organized a sit-in protest against the German production company, highlighting how the expansion of the test track through the so-called "projectNardò Technical Center” (NTC) could lead to a real environmental disaster.To lend support to environmental associations, which among other things also have harvest beyond 80,000 signatures Even the municipal administration of the city home to the important car brand appears to have come out against the construction of the work, requesting a meeting with representatives of Porsche.Meanwhile in Italy the silence of the large movements to protect the environment is strident, but their absence is filled by smaller signatures and local movements, which have presented a exposed to the TAR...

One hundred million trees planted in 2015 and the goal of reaching one billion in 2030.41 thousand hectares of arid land restored in less than ten years, more than double the surface area of ​​the city of Milan, which allow the livelihood of 50 thousand families and which capture 347 metric tons of CO2 per hectare, the equivalent of 100 thousand liters of diesel fuel consumed.And then the increase in biodiversity, the creation of jobs, the rediscovery of a healthy relationship between man and the environment, which allows self-sufficiency.To achieve these objectives is Trees for the Future (TREES), a non-profit regenerative agroforestry organization that trains farmers in sub-Saharan Africa in sustainable, nature-based solutions.Its results are important to the point that the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has awarded it the status of World Restoration Flagship, i.e. the flagship of global restoration.By 2030, the organization also aims to create 230 thousand job...

On Wednesday 13 March, the European Commission launched a new procedure towards Italy, through which, by highlighting the failure to comply with the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued in 2020, it will be able to decide to refer Rome to the Court, with the request to impose financial sanctions.The infringement procedure comes for failure to comply with the obligations on air quality and gives to Italy two months' time to respond and fill the gaps that have been identified.The proceedings initiated yesterday are added to the referral of the last June relating to non-compliance with the directive on waste water, launched by the Commission because, despite the progress made, it believed that the efforts carried out by the Italian authorities were still "insufficient" to deal with the problem of water pollution. The proceedings against Italy were notified with the monthly infringement package for the month of March.It was launched under Article 260 of the...