With 11 million hectares of woodland, Italy ranks second in Europe in terms of forest coverage and offers extraordinary possibilities for a holiday or a ‘slow’ experience, where the environment and well-being, history and culture, civic customs and ancient legends come together. Even better if the choice favours the discovery of locations where local communities The post On holiday to discover forests fighting the climate crisis first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

On 12 July, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Nature Restoration Act and the Green Deal, despite an unprecedented disinformation campaign aimed at stopping it, led by right-wing and conservative politicians and the agribusiness and intensive fishing lobbies. Following a strong public mobilisation to defend the law and the integrity of the EU The post Europe has chosen nature! first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

Floods represent one of the most common and most impactful natural disasters worldwide. During the first two decades of the 2000s, floods alone caused $651 billion in economic damage and these losses are expected to increase further in the future due to climate change, economic growth and urbanisation. Effective flood management requires accurate knowledge of The post An innovative approach to river flood mapping first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

Climate change, in addition to causing serious problems to natural ecosystems, infrastructure, housing, businesses and livelihoods, is having (direct and indirect) impacts on people’s physical and mental health. Susan Clayton, of the Department of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio, explains in her study ‘Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change’ how the The post Eco-anxiety: the chronic fear of environmental ruin first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

It is greenbickering, or green squabbling, the new phenomenon with which companies, public opinion, administrators and especially judges and courts will have to become familiar. “That is,” explained Rita Santaniello, a lawyer with the multinational firm Rödl & Partner, in the conference organized by Economy magazine on the topic of greenwashing, “that practice whereby a The post Greenbickering, companies now fight over who is not so green first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 was recorded in Turkey on 6 February 2023 and affected a large area in south-eastern Anatolia, on the border with Syria. This event was replicated about 9 hours later by another tremor with an estimated magnitude of 7.5, about 60/70 km north-east of the first one; in addition, The post Earthquake in Turkey: the apocalypse is always man-made first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

With the arrival of spring, the wedding season opens, which generally starts in April and ends in October, and many will already be thinking about how to celebrate their union in the most original way possible, so that this day is unforgettable for themselves and their guests.Generally, wedding planning is related in many cultures to The post How to plan an “almost” sustainable wedding? first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

The waves of drought and heat characterized not only the last summer season, but also the autumn. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the scorching heat of summer 2022 caused at least 15,000 deaths in Europe: «Hot stress is the main cause of death related to weather conditions in the European region» and «Extreme The post Trees: adversaries and victims of climate change first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

The Bosco Pantano forest represents the last strip of lowland forest in southern Italy, ‘a fossil’ that has escaped the wild reclamation and agricultural intensification that affected the Lucanian territory in the last century. Located on the hydrographic left of the Sinni river, it covers an area of a few hundred hectares in the municipality The post The Bosco Pantano of Policoro, the last enchanted forest first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

“In our country, approximately one person in two owns a car, i.e. 666 cars for every 1,000 inhabitants, a figure that puts Italy in second place in Europe for the highest motorisation rate, after Luxembourg,” explains Roberta Roberto, ENEA researcher in the Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources Department and co-author of the survey, together with The post Smart working is good for your health, also for the Planet first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.