September. A torrid and dry summer ends, the hope is that autumn will return some water to the parched land. But the flowers, even when the plant is on its last legs, or rather because of this, open up to the sun. It is the plant’s response to adverse conditions: […]
Reworking with additions to the text of P.R. Ehrlich Global change and its influence on biodiversity (R.Casagrandi & P. Melia (Eds) Proceedings of the XIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Ecology, Como, 8-10 September 2003. SItE Acts 27: 35-45). The article begins with a reference to the impressive […]
Ecotonal spaces: spaces that Nature uses to connect different ecosystems, spaces that express new characteristics and which stimulate selection to give rise to new species. The Green World Café (GWC), a pleasant space for discussion, starting from the classical definition, extends the idea of the connection between ecological systems and […]
Earthgardening, making the Earth our garden. Take care of it as if it were our every corner, to find it more beautiful and to enjoy it as long as possible. But … how can we deal with the whole planet? Yet it is simple, just try to live in harmony […]
To define the current era, the term “Plasticene” has been proposed: plastic fragments throughout the world are continuously detected in oceans, soil, sediments and air. Just to have an order of magnitude, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Pisa, the amount of microplastics on Italian beaches […]