[posted by Sophia Smith Galer on BBC, 28 March 2018] We’re about five metres away from the Mediterranean Sea. To my right, the Zouk Mosbeh power plant pumps out plumes of thick grey smoke into an otherwise bright blue sky. The Jounieh Valley towers behind me over the coastline, a metropolis full of hotels and entertainment venues just outside of Beirut. To my left, I can see some sort of resort in the distance. But all I can smell –...

Gli schiavi della Little India pontina

[di Angelo Mastrandrea per Internazionale, 11 giugno 2015] Al civico cinquemila e dispari di via Portosello, tra Sabaudia e Pontinia, non c’è bisogno di bussare. Il cancello è aperto e la campagna si estende a perdita d’occhio come un latifondo dell’ancien régime, preceduta da un paio di caseggiati incompiuti senza porte né finestre ma chiaramente abitati. Da uno di questi si affaccia un uomo di mezza età. Indossa una camicia blu...

[posted by Jonathan Watts on Gulf News, March 31st, 2018] The vanilla thieves of Anjahana were so confident of their power to intimidate farmers they provided advance warning of raids. “We are coming tonight,” they would write in a note pushed under doors in this remote coastal village in Madagascar. “Prepare what we want.” But they either undervalued their target commodity or overestimated the meekness of their victims. After one...

Rassegna Stampa Aprile 2018

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[posted by Cecilia Erba on Politheor, March 21st, 2018] The production of fossil fuels is still considered of strategic interest in Italy. As of the end of 2015, 114 exploration and 202 exploitation licenses were in force on national territory. Such activities pose a huge threat to the preservation of the environment and the health of local communities. The recently uncovered Val d’Agri affaireexemplifies the damage that oil...