Venice

July 2023 was marked by a series of new records in terms of temperatures on the Earth. According to US National Weather Service and EU Copernicus Climate Change Service data, this is the first decade in which, for three times (two in a row), the thermometers marked “the hottest day ever”. Across the Mediterranean area, the 50°C threshold was surpassed several times ... »

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Rome to pay his visit to both Italian and Vatican institutions. He will meet Paolo Gentiloni (Italian Prime Minister), Sergio Mattarella (Italian President of the State), Pope Francis I and the Vatican State Secretary Parolin. The goal of this meeting is the breach through the political isolation on part of Turkey following the ... »

Here in Venice, being actively against the large cruise liners means doing much more than fighting an environmental battle.In this city, where street are waterways, fighting to protect the lagoon ecosystem means actively reclaiming our right to the city, defending public spaces and avoiding the destruction of a unique lifestyle, precious heritage for all.Standing Rock ... »

For more than a thousand years Venice has been the city symbol of the balance between Man and Nature; its magic comes from and lives in the extraordinary co-penetration of art and nature, stone and water, city and Lagoon.  This fragile equilibrium is seriously threatened by the industry of mass tourism, of which the mega cruise ships are one of the worst aspects: over-sized ... »