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“After the water”: fighting the mud and invisible wounds
31.03.2025
"With the mud it’s a losing battle. It wins. It always wins. It becomes like cement and it’s impossible to remove it". This is Francesca Placci, a young woman from Faenza, speaking about the floods that devastated the Romagna region. The same words could come from the mouth of any other flood victim, because most […]
Episode 2
PFAS: Clean up, restore, ban?
20.02.2025
PFAS pollution is an “invisible violence” with enormous damage to the environment and health. And cleaning up a site contaminated by PFAS is not easy at all.
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PFAS: the heavy bill citizens paid to have clean water in the Vicenza area
14.02.2025
The data Massimo Carmagnani shared with us is not secret—on the contrary, it is public and filed with the court. And it is very clear..
Episode 3
Maristanis, the incomplete: the park that never was, between wind farms and pesticides
7.10.2024
However, pollution and energy projects threaten the health of this territory, putting what remains after a century of land reclamation and the expansion of industrial agriculture at risk.
Episode 2
Wasted Wetlands. Cervia, the salt pan submerged by the 2023 flood in Romagna
19.07.2024
In 2023, a violent flood hit Emilia-Romagna. The damage was extensive, but the Cervia salt pan mitigated some of the consequences.
