Category: News
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A European city air quality viewer allows you to check long term air pollution levels where you live
In the EEA’s new city air quality viewer, cities are ranked from the cleanest city to the most polluted, on the basis of average levels of fine particulate matter, or […]
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Presentation of the Italian 2021 Report on “Land consumption, territorial dynamics and ecosystem services”
The report by the National System for the Protection of the Environment (SNPA) “Land consumption, territorial dynamics and ecosystem services. 2021 Edition” was presented on July 14, 2021. According to […]
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United Nations World Water Development Report 2021
The United Nations has recently published the United Nations World Water Development Report 2021. The approaches and methodologies currently used in the assessment of water have been grouped on the […]
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Conference on the future of Europe
The European institutions, parliament, presidency of the council and commission, have announced the conference on the future of Europe, inviting all citizens to share ideas to help shape the Europe […]
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The state of European water bodies
About 88 % of Europe’s freshwater use comes from rivers and groundwater, according to an article published on the website of the European Environment Agency in March 2021 Ensuring clean […]
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Making Peace with Nature
Given the interconnected nature of climate change, loss of biodiversity, land degradation, and air and water pollution, it is essential that these problems are tackled together now. This is one […]
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New financial resources for UNESCO’s site of naturalistic interest
Seventy-five million euros for the three-year period 2021-2023 for adaptation to climate change in UNESCO sites of naturalistic interest,of which many are located in the Lombardy region, and in national […]
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Biodiversity and pandemics: the Ipbes report
“The underlying causes of pandemics are the same global environmental changes that drive biodiversity loss and climate change” Almost all pandemics are connected to the unsustainable exploitation of the environment […]
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New EU state of nature report
We need to make a radical change if we are to have a real chance of bringing biodiversity back to Europe on the path of environmental recovery by 2030, as […]
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Invasive alien species: countermeasures adopted at Orio al Serio Airport– video
The invasive alien species (IAS) are a serious threat to biodiversity. The video shows the countermeasures adopted at Milan Bergamo international Airport, in Italy, as part of the Life Gestire […]