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Some Swiss companies (Vitol, Trafigura, Addax & Oryx Group (AOG) and Lynx energy), leveraging the low environmental standards of African governments, reduce the quality of fuels sold in Africa to increase their profits. Using a common industrial practice called mixing, commercial companies mix petroleum to toxic and particularly harmful to the environment and health (including [...]

Sicily, a pearl of the Mediterranean, where bathing in summer 2017 in its beaches will be banned in more than two hundred coastal areas. That’s the decision by decree of the Regional Health Council, which regulates the seaside season, which opening is fixed from April 1st to October 30th. Between the reasons to ban bathing [...]

The Istat 2017 Water Resources Report says that every Italian consumes an average of 245 liters of drinking water per day and each family spends 13 Euros for the monthly water supply and 10 Euros for mineral water. In spite of these consumptions, the peninsula's aqueducts lose 38.2% on average, but in this picture, the [...]

The British Henderson Island is located in the South Pacific Ocean between Chile and New Zealand. It has been declared UNESCO’s heritage for its beauty, but unfortunately, reality says something different: the island is today the most polluted in the world, about 99% of its surface is occupied by waste, especially plastic. According to a [...]

The Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) National report reveals a not enviable primacy for the province of Ragusa, in Sicily Region, Italy.. In the island 22.3% of the monitored aquifers is above the pollution limits due to an agricultural sector that uses excessively chemicals. The report is based on information transmitted by [...]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Po Valley is one of the most polluted areas in Europe. According to some press sources, Italy is the country in Western Europe with the worst air condition. However, the problem still does not seem to be addressed as it should: Italians who died in 2012 because [...]

Even the Maldives archipelago has its environmental problems: not only because of the rising sea level, but also because Thilafushi Island has become a dump where the Maldives waste is brought by sea. This island is only 7 km away from the capital city Malè and hundreds of immigrants are working in this mountain of [...]