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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

“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 […]

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

The Po River water crisis and the future it faces

5.07.2024

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.

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.

Wasted wetlands: the hidden heritage of Sardinia's wetlands

1.05.2024

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.

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