December is the darkest and quietest month of the year. Winter spends its final days in silence, guarding the seeds of the many summer and autumn fruits, waiting for the light to slowly make them germinate, restoring them to a thousand lives.Giuseppe Ungaretti writes: “Like a seed, my soul also […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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According to Konrad Lorenz, Charles Otis Whitman and Oskar Heinroth, the first American and the other German, were two significant precursors of the modern study of animal behaviour. Active in the early 1900s, they were interested in birds. While Whitman wrote a monumental work on the pigeon (Columba livia), ducks […]
In winter, in the woods and mist-shrouded countryside, on the trunks and branches of now-bare deciduous trees, one sometimes sees, alas, increasingly rarely, bushy balls—tangles of greenish branches and leaves: these are the Mistletoe plants! Mistletoe (Viscum album L. 1753) belongs to the Santalaceae family. It is a bushy evergreen […]
We live in an era of climate change, floods, storms, hurricanes, devastating landslides, melting glaciers, environmental disasters, plastics everywhere, uncontrolled emissions, rampant deforestation, biodiversity loss, and habitat destruction.Every time a catastrophic event occurs, we fill our mouths with words that then remain empty promises.Terms like environmentalism, nature conservation, and the […]
“Where Man Begins” is an extremely fascinating book, published in May 2025 by two of Italy’s most brilliant science writers, Telmo Pievani and Giuseppe Remuzzi.The former is a Professor of Philosophy of Biological Sciences at the University of Padua and a Visiting Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History […]