We are a riverine species. It is from the rivers that our civilization was born. Then something went wrong. For a long time, our relationship with rivers has been parasitic: we use them and abuse them, we distort their course, the hydrographic networks that feed them, and therefore also the […]
Anna Lacci
Many wonder if individual efforts can really be significant in stopping or at least mitigating climate warming and allowing the planet to replenish its resources. This question can be easily answered: the serious problems that afflict us for having disturbed so many balances are nothing more than the sum of […]
Third and final appointment with the movements of salt waters, which occupy a large part of the planet that hosts us with so much patience.In the first article we explored the “functioning” of the waves (https://www.earthgardeners.it/2023/07/27/i-ritmi-del-mare-le-onde/); in the second we were interested in currents (https://www.earthgardeners.it/2023/07/27/i-ritmi-del-mare-le-onde/); in this we will deal […]
Second appointment with the movements of the waters that color our beloved planet blue. In the first we looked more closely at the “functioning” of the waves (https://www.earthgardeners.it/2023/07/27/i-ritmi-del-mare-le-onde/), in this we broaden the view and we are interested in currents. All those who love long swims know how tiring it […]
The flora, and obviously the fauna, which has colonized the circum-Mediterranean territory, has had to face a very particular situation: rainfall concentrated only in a few months, with consequent long dry periods and a long annual photoperiod. These characteristics lead to consider the Mediterranean climate as subtropical. In fact, the […]