[posted by Ben Chapman on Independent, May 13th, 2018]   Royal Dutch Shell, Italian oil giant Eni and a number of senior executives at the two firms face trial in Milan on Monday over corruption charges relating to a $1.1bn (£800m) deal for a Nigerian oil block. The Milan public prosecutor alleges that $520m from a 2011 deal to buy rights to a vast oil block off Nigeria’s coast was converted into cash and intended to be paid to...

Rassegna stampa giugno 2018

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[posted by Alice Facchini and Sandra Laville on The Guardian, May 17th, 2018]   UK demand for fruit increased by 27% last year alone, prompting accusations that growers are illegally diverting rivers and leaving locals without water   British supermarkets are selling thousands of tonnes of avocados produced in a Chilean region where villagers claim vast amounts of water are being diverted, resulting in a drought. Major UK...

L’inquinamento mette a rischio la fertilità maschile

[di Paola Emilia Cicerone per La Repubblica, 12 maggio 2018]   L’allarme inquinamento questa volta arriva dagli andrologi. E in particolare da uno studio italiano sul liquido seminale di uomini che vivono in aree gravemente inquinate, come Taranto o la Terra dei Fuochi, l’area a cavallo tra le province di Napoli e quella di Caserta, uno dei temi che saranno affrontati nel corso del congresso nazionale della Società Italiana...

[posted by Chris Mooney on The Washington Post, 16th May, 2018]   A 14-year NASA mission has confirmed that a massive redistribution of freshwater is occurring across Earth, with middle-latitude belts drying and the tropics and higher latitudes gaining water supplies. The results, which are probably a combination of the effects of climate change, vast human withdrawals of groundwater and simple natural changes, could have...