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FACTA is an independent Italian non-profit media outlet that applies the scientific method to investigative and data journalism. Our mission is to promote democracy through science-based investigations. We work in Italy, a country with enormous political, environmental, and social issues. We publish in Italian and English, often in syndication with other Italian media. We strongly believe rigorous, transparent, open science, public interest journalism can help better inform the public debate and build scientific citizenship.
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Episode 1
Behind the Labels: Fashion Brands Meet Half of Their Green Pledges
24.11.2025
Over the last 20 years, global textile production has doubled. Along with this ballooning industry, its environmental impacts are facing increasing attention. The European Parliament Research Service estimates, based on data from the European Environment Agency (EEA), that producing just one cotton t-shirt consumes 2700 litres of freshwater and that clothing production is responsible for […]
Episodio 3
An audacious idea: granting legal rights as a subject to Lake Garda
9.10.2025
At our café table, we ask Viola: “If Lake Garda gains legal personhood, does that mean it can take someone to court? Or take to court those who fail to protect it?
Episode 2
At what cost? The loss of nature risks becoming irreversible
7.10.2025
The data as a whole are alarming, and they cast a very different light on all those commitments that, on paper, were made to steer at least Europe toward a model of development that is more respectful of the environment, and of our relationship with nature, which we continue to think of as something we are not part of.
Episode 1
Green to Grey. On Lake Garda, where tourism and concrete are devouring nature
1.10.2025
There is only one connection between Largo Goethe and Piazza Castello: the drawbridge built at the end of the 13th century by the Della Scala family of Verona, who also built the fortress. We are in Sirmione, on the Lombardia shore of the lake Garda, and when tourist flows reach their peak, as in high […]
Rimini’s response to sea level rise
19.09.2025
Faced with the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather events, Rimini is rethinking its waterfront: green infrastructure, new sewage strategies and nature-based solutions to protect the territory and community
