The Mediterranean coast is exposed to severe threats from climate change: it’s one of the biggest crises humanity has ever faced. Sea level rise, warming waters and changing storm patterns are already having serious impacts on the lives of more than a third of the region’s population – that’s some 180 million people.
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"We are imagining the future", explains Inza Fofana, holding a bag full of rubbish. He left three years ago the Ivory Coast at war and arrived in Italy on a boat, after he crawled up half of the African continent. A guest for months in the Libyan hell. Inza, now eighteen, is one of the many students from the Buccari and Marconi institutes of Cagliari who took part in the "#PlasticFreeGC" initiative, promoted by the general command of the Coast Guard Corps on request of the Ministry of the Environment.
Coast Day celebrates its 11th anniversary and raises the challenge for a sustainable use of coastal resources. Created in 2008 to promote the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) campaign, coordinated by the United Nations PAP/RAC agency and promoted by the European Union's SMAP programme and the World Bank's METAP project, the event aims to raise awareness among the people of the Mediterranean countries of the value of the coasts, their conservation and protection for sustainable development.
Under the blinding light of June it takes a few moments to grasp that the huge pink flamingo topped on the back with half a quintal of waste is not a hallucination. The pedal boat of the Cooperative Golfo degli Angeli approaches the pier of the port of Marina Piccola.
Sardinia like the Sahara? Dispelling false myths helps to better define the threat, which is real and current. It is therefore useful to remember that the phenomenon of desertification does not involve the transformation of "zero kilometer" territories into Saharan expanses with high sand dunes (desertization).
"Beat air pollution" is the slogan of the 2019 edition of World Environment Day, promoted every June 5 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which this year dedicated the event to the themes of air pollution and climate crisis.
"Today the situation in our sea is critical, there are many species at risk of extinction ", explains Francesca Frau. A life dedicated to the sea, its wonders and the dangers threatening them, that of the marine biologist.
Bees, what a passion. There are many writers, scientists or poets who have chosen bees as the object of speculation. Albert Einstein had issued the warning: "If bees disappeared from the face of the earth, man would have only four years left to live".
World Migratory Birds Day. They feed up to double their body weight in a single week. They prepare for the journey, which can last from a week to four months: it depends on the route, the speed of the flight, the breaks.
- IPBES, the loss of biodiversity: 1 million species at risk
- World Tuna Day: "Overfishing and mismanagement threaten its survival"
- Porto Cervo: special meetings at the final evening of the Costa Smeralda Prize
- Costa Smeralda Prize: gran gala in Porto Cervo
- Earth Day: the environment belongs to everyone
- Threatened fishes: what future for migratory species?
- Environment and historical heritage: the challenge of cultural diversity
- Migratory fishes
- Marceddì and San Giovanni: treasures of the past rediscovered in a sustainable future
- Adopt a beach": the commitment of the boys of Arzachena and Abbiadori.