Carteret Islands are a group of six tiny islands in Bouganville Autonomous Region in Papua New Guinea and are 86 km away from the main island, Bouganville. Having an area of 0.6 km², and an elevation of just 1.2 meters above sea level at its highest point Carteret islands are extremly exposed to the impacts [...]
Carteret Islands are a group of six tiny islands in Bouganville Autonomous Region in Papua New Guinea and are 86 km away from the main island, Bouganville. Having an area of 0.6 km² , an elevation of 1.2 meters above sea level at its highest point and a lack of land suitable for agriculture Carteret [...]
Nel 2013, dopo ben dieci anni di progettazione ed elaborazione, in Friuli Venezia Giulia l’azienda Terna - gestore della rete elettrica nazionale - ha inaugurato i lavori per la messa in opera del nuovo Elettrodotto Udine Ovest – Redipuglia, che percorrerà in totale 40 km, sostituendo 110 km di vecchie linee che verranno dismesse. Secondo [...]
The construction of the electric power line has been slowed down, locked, revamped and rediscovered dozens of times, because of the discussions between who accept such modernization, despite the inconvenience it might bring, and who opposed obstinately. The mayors of the municipalities concerned on this power line behaved differently: some declined the individual meetings that [...]
The Narmada Valley Development Plan (NVDP) proposes the construction of 30 big dams, 135 medium dams and 3000 smaller dams on the river Narmada. Projects are currently underway on the river intended to provide water and power to Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and primarily, Gujarat .The Sardar Sarovar Dam is the largest dam and part of [...]
Among the most schocking exemples of water-grabbing one must certantly include that of dams contruction, a widespread phenomenon in India. Here thousand of dams are under constuction as part of the The Narmada Valley Development Plan which proposes the construction of 30 big dams, 135 medium dams and 3000 smaller dams on the river Narmada. [...]
Newtok is a small village located on the Ninglik river, close to the Bering Sea in northwestern Alaska. It covers an area of approximately 2.8 km2 and it's home to 354 people. Newtok community is facing forced recolation because of the negative impacts of climate change, mainly erosion and permafrost melt. Newtok is losing ground [...]
Every year millions of people are forced to leave their territories which are becoming inhabitable due to the effects of climate change. Back in 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) signaled how the increase in the average temperature in the Arctic is proceding at a rate twice as high compared to the global [...]
L'industria dei prodotti di origine animale causa, in tutto il mondo, forti conseguenze negative a livello ambientale ed ecologico. La deforestazione è uno dei risultati più dannosi, considerando che, secondo uno studio FAO, circa il 70% delle aree già disboscate della foresta amazzonica sia stato utilizzato per gli allevamenti e la coltivazione di foraggio per [...]
The industry of the animal based products have significant consequences, first of all consuming a lot of resources and producing high levels of pollution. Very large amounts of water are used in the intensive animal farming, for cleaning the farms, and especially for agriculture. In total, as much as 70% of the water used throughout [...]
