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 […]
Maria Beatrice Lupi
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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 […]
“O friend, o gracious moon, once more returns to mindThe turning of the year, when over this wooded knoll,I came, full of pain, admiring thee:And there you hung over that woodAnd then, as now, everything bathed in light.”To the moon – Giacomo Leopardi (translation by Michael Curtotti) Since childhood, the […]
In a world overwhelmed by waste and plastic, a growing awareness of environmental issues urges us to reflect. Can we fix this? What positive habits can each of us adopt, in our own small way, to help improve the situation? If we look around our homes, we see we are […]
It is often assumed that gestation, birth, and caring for the young are roles exclusively associated with the mother. However, in nature, this is not always the case! Who would have thought that some types of fish have a mother who lays the eggs and a father who takes care […]