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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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, [...]

Corals belong to the most famous cnidarian marine invertebrates around the world. They form compact colonies, which consist of many individual polyps sometimes secreting calcium carbonate skeleton (stony or hard corals) to protect fragile bodies. As sessile organisms with no medusa stage within their life cycle the hard coral colonies are [...]

In the district of Liptovský Mikuláš, in early May 2017, an extraordinary situation was declared because of the floods. This situation is repeated every year, only the affected localities differ. Often, however, the affected areas have one common feature: a major degradation of the landscape. The occurrence of floods is [...]

"Nobody knows how many trees have been logged in Slovakia over the last 20 years, but I'm probably right when I say that it was over 100 million. A lot of wood is exported abroad, burned because of subsidies for energy from biomass, huge areas were extracted because of subsidized [...]

In many countries, including in the Czech Republic, the rivers are revitalized to their natural form. In Slovakia, we are still concretizing the rivers. At the beginning of 2017, the Office of the Public Defender of Rights examined the permitting procedure for construction of small hydropower plants (SHP). Ombudsman Jana [...]

The Black Book of Bioenergy presents that combustion of biomass generates greenhouse gas emissions and leads to a massive decline in biodiversity and destruction of ecosystems. The case study from Slovakia shows that wood energy production has increased by 72% in the last nine years. "In the middle of the [...]

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 [...]

In early 2016 the mining company Alpine Oil and Gas started with exploratory drills with the aim to verify the presence of oil or natural gas in three villages in North-East Slovakia. Since the company did not communicate with the public, the citizens of affected municipalities asked through petition the [...]

„Only when it is understood that those who build and sustain urban life have a primary claim to that which they have produced, and that one of their claims is to the unalienated right to make a city more after their own heart's desire, will we arrive at a politics [...]

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 [...]

The Lazio Regional Coordination for Public Water was born thanks to a group of citizens and activists aiming at stop the privatization of public water, started in the 1990s and consolidated in 2000. When in 2006, the Legislative Decree 152/2006 was issued, activists began to converge into a national movement: [...]

Over the last twenty years, the international community has begun to recognize the connection that climate change and the environment have on human mobility. All continents and countries are affected by climate change. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) noted that since 2009, 26.4 million people migrate due to natural [...]

In 1974, in the framework of a general industrial plan for enhancing the use of nuclear energy, the Lazio Region approved the location of an electronuclear plant in the Upper Lazio, on the coastal strip that includes Montalto di Castro and other eleven municipalities :a central and important area especially [...]

Discovered in 1989, Tempa Rossa is located in southern Italy, in the Basilicate region, namely the Sauro high valley, at an altitude of 1,000 meters and among the Appennino Lucano Val D’Agri Lagonegrese National Park and the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park. From the unitized Gogoglione concession (Total 50%, Shell 25% [...]

The Tap, Trans Adriatic Pipeline is a project aimed to secure a new and alternative gas supply to the European Union member States thanks to natural gas from Azerbaijan, through the so-called Southern Gas Corridor. Tap will run through Greece and Albania, under the Adriatic Sea and it is supposed [...]

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 [...]

The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on July 10, 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 20 kilometers north of Milan in the Lombardy region of Italy. It is known as the highest known exposure to (TCDD) in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific [...]