News from the Earth

By helping protect the polar bear, we’re helping to make sure the Arctic food chain stays healthy, for the benefit of wildlife and people in and beyond the Arctic. The Arctic provides fish for millions of people.

The Transcendental Meditation Learning Course was certainly one of the most interesting educational programs offered in the country. As of 2014, in Tanzania, about 8,000 Masai, mostly women, have learned to meditate. Within six months they had become much more proactive in solving their personal and family problems. The goal for 2021 is to double the number of women who will learn the technique.

Plastic pollution is the ocean's new cancer, but the good news is that we can all help clean up the planet!

The aim is to raise public awareness of the health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, promote healthy diet and lifestyle, reduce food waste and food losses, improving food production by making it more sustainable through innovation and technology in line with UN development objectives.

Drinking water is a resource that must never be taken for granted because life depends on it. It is essential for the well-being and sustainable development of people, and for preserving biodiversity in the world. 

A problem that not only concerns the health of the fauna, but also ours. Plastic, which ends up in the food chain, puts commercial fishing and aquaculture at risk. A significant risk for 1.4 billion people for which fish is one of the main sources of protein. 80% of the waste consists of plastic.

The Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged smart working as a preferred mode of work, where possible, to contain infections by limiting the harmful effec...

Since a century the anthropogenic mass doubles on average every 20 years. Since the '50s of the last century there has been a strong acceleration, which has become dizzying since the beginning of the third millennium. For each living human being, the mass of objects produced is more than its own body weight.

582,538 people signed up to try a month as vegans in January, far exceeding the target of 500 thousand and the record of last year of 400 thousand. This shows how Veganuary is able to involve different people, even those who would like to approach a vegetable diet and are looking for useful advice and information.

Urban development has compromised that primordial link that united the environment and people. How is it possible to restore it? 

By a conscious and responsible lifestyle. Every daily gesture directly affects our well-being and our surroundings. 

The attempt to increase the number of whales could be seen as a benign form of geo-engineering. A large whale absorbs on average 33 tonnes of CO2, while a tree, for example, stores less than 50 kg annually.

Although a pandemic-related economic slowdown temporarily reduced the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming, much more needs to be done to rein in planetary warming.