- Investigation15.04.2026
For fifty years, "ecocide" has lacked a clear legal definition. The word entered public discussion in the 1970s, introduced by biologist Arthur Galston. The term was later adopted by Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in…
- Episode17.10.2025
In October 2025, we published in Italian the following article here on FACTA, in collaboration with IrpiMedia, presenting data and studies on the widespread…
- Episode09.10.2025
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?
- Episode07.10.2025
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.
- Episode01.10.2025
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…
- Investigation01.10.2025
Europe is moving from green to grey at a fast pace. It is constantly losing fragments of nature, destroying entire ecosystems, and reducing its biodiversity. Every year, 1,500 square kilometres of natural or agricultural land are converted into built-up areas.
- Episode19.09.2025
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
- Investigation20.02.2025
What is the hidden price of PFAS pollution? This cross-border investigation reveals that PFAS remediation across Europe could cost up to €2 trillion over a 20-year period. We exposed the real cost of the “forever…
- Episode20.02.2025
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.
- Episode14.02.2025
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..
- Episode19.07.2024
In 2023, a violent flood hit Emilia-Romagna. The damage was extensive, but the Cervia salt pan mitigated some of the consequences.
- Episode13.07.2024
The relationship between productive activities, environmental protection, and conservation is always somewhat problematic.
- Episode05.07.2024
We now constantly oscillate between two extremes: very intense, short-lived events that bring a large amount of water, followed by increasingly longer periods of historic drought.
- Episode18.05.2024
Water is not a commercial product like any other, but a heritage that must be protected, defended, and treated as such.
- Episode01.05.2024
In this story, we focus on the wetlands in Sardinia, Italy, showing how a proper wetland protection is impossible without detailed scientific knowledge and an integrated management of these vital ecosystems.
- Episode30.04.2024
What are wetlands, and why do they matter? Presenting FACTA’s new investigation on the Mediterranean wetlands.
- Investigation28.04.2024
Wetlands – such as lagoons, swamps, and peat bog – are a distinct ecosystem saturated by water and are vital CO2 emissions sponges, capable of locking up carbon for thousands of years. This investigation looked into human activities are decimating Europe’s remaining wetlands, as national authorities ignore this ongoing exploitation.
- Investigation11.04.2024
Groundwater is the ecosystem Europe has always been able to rely on, and grew to consider an infinite resource. This cross-border investigation reveals that the current state of matters is dire: our water is disappearing and what remains is facing near-irreversible pollution.
- Episode24.05.2023
We know a lot about the crisis. We know that it is time to progress from understanding the problems to solving them. However, we also know that there is no perfect solution. It is a matter of shifting understanding and knowledge from science to society, from data to stories, from facts to solutions.
- Episode29.03.2023
Money moves the attention of people, investors, and capital owners. Money is part of many solutions to the climate deadlock. But numbers are not enough to calculate the economic value of the climate issue.
- Episode24.02.2023
The Urgenda case was the game changer. It opened up a new dialogue between human rights law and climate science, while it marked a watershed moment for climate justice: from then on, we saw new measures to protect people from the harms posed by climate change.
- Episode28.01.2023
Knowledge is power. It is the backbone of an alliance that spans the farthest corners of the planet to the laboratories of the most advanced scientific research. In this episode, we explore the terrain where science meets civil society that triggers climate action. With stories of people in the Global South where natural resources 'are being used as a weapon'.
- Episode14.12.2022
A trip among satellites, robots and bottles. One that oscillates between the heights of the atmosphere and the surface of the sea. We ride on carbon dioxide molecules to understand how relevant the word budget can be in delivering a future where a climate neutrality takes shape.
- Episode10.11.2022
Behind the scenes of the climate negotiations, where the whole world sits around the same table. It is a plot of interminable sessions, under the danger of a deadlock that is always around the corner, behind a comma or a single concept. Scientists, delegates and a journalist unveil how a climate agreement takes shape in the halls and the corridors of an International Climate Conference.
- Episode25.10.2022
The blood vessel of Egypt meets China: the world's plumber-in-chief. A journey which starts with the Neolithic revolution, passes through the “hydraulic century” and carries us into the future. By following the history of water, we delve into the roots of human civilization, crossing paths with science, technology, politics, and the stories of people and places.
- Episode05.09.2022
Indeed, our history is one that for a long time was primarily, and exclusively, an African story..
- Episode26.08.2022
In the motion of rain, the water touches what cannot stay. In the first days of the world, we were travelling. Where have you gone, leaf and flower, scent of moths?
- Episode04.08.2022
If you want to be a polar explorer and cross the Arctic on skis, you should do it soon and in the winter. This message is quite clear.
- Episode29.07.2022
Listen to the numbers. From an ice-breaker in the Arctic to the keyboard of a piano, scientific indicators become music and gestures, a narrative made of science and digital art. An experimental tale of the emotions at the heart of research. This is how Judy Twedt creates data-driven soundtracks from sea ice.
- Episode25.07.2022
Conflicts around the world have devastating impacts not only on human lives but also on places - cities, countryside, rivers, forests, and fields. Wars often alter the environment irreversibly.
- Episode14.07.2022
We need farmers, poets, people who know how to make bread, who love trees, and understand the wind.
- Episode07.07.2022
Since 1997, for five days each year, Mantua becomes the international capital of literature. Literature is approached in a broad and inquisitive way, intertwined with history, society, art, science, technology, and the environment.
- Investigation30.05.2022
A planetary journey that goes deep into the future of innovation, technology, nature, and humanity in search of the best ways to forge a sustainable future.
- Episode30.05.2022
Where does science meet imagination? Our complex, interconnected, fast-changing world makes anticipating the future increasingly difficult. Alex Steffen, futurist, and Carolina Aragón, artist, guide us through their different, and sometimes complementary, perspectives on our future planet.
- Investigation31.03.2022
Un podcast di Elisabetta Tola e Giulia Bonelli che ruota attorno al nostro rapporto con il mondo: come viviamo, plasmiamo, coltiviamo, distruggiamo, inquiniamo e conserviamo l'ambiente. Una riflessione corale attraverso l'archivio di voci del Festivaletteratura di Mantova, Italia. Oltrenatura è prodotto nell'ambito del progetto "Reading Science", sostenuto dal Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca.
