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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…
Investigation
Beyond the Hem: Fashion and Sustainability
24.11.2025
From luxury to fast fashion, Europe's clothing giants have spent the past decade filling their sustainability reports with pledges: recycled fibres, "green" materials, reduced emissions, sustainable cotton. But our…
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An audacious idea: granting legal rights as a subject to Lake Garda
09.10.2025
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?
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At what cost? The loss of nature risks becoming irreversible
07.10.2025
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.
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Green to Grey. On Lake Garda, where tourism and concrete are devouring nature
01.10.2025
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…
Investigation
Green to Grey
01.10.2025
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.
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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
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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…
Investigation
Flooded
31.03.2025
The floods have left deep marks not only on the territory but also on people. In addition to material damage, the psychological and emotional consequences have been significant.
Investigation
Forever Lobbying Project
20.02.2025
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…
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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..
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Who pays the price when there's no water or when there's too much?
13.07.2024
The relationship between productive activities, environmental protection, and conservation is always somewhat problematic.
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The Po River water crisis and the future it faces
05.07.2024
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.
Episode
Under the Surface: the state of Europe's underground water reservoirs
18.05.2024
Water is not a commercial product like any other, but a heritage that must be protected, defended, and treated as such.
Investigation
Under the Surface
11.04.2024
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.

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