Ambler Road: Through Alaska’s Frozen Lands
Ambler Road: 211 miles across Arctic ice for crude oil and heavy metals. A new chapter in the global race for resources — and a growing challenge to sustainability.
Beyond the Olympic Rings – The Cost of Sustainability
Ignored local voices, temporary city infrastructures, spiraling costs, and governance gaps. Behind the Olympic spotlight, social tensions and contested legacies emerge.
Beyond the Olympic Rings – The Alpine Challenge
Endless construction sites, deforested woods, water diverted from the land, and spiraling costs. Behind the green image lies the shadows of an Olympics that are anything but sustainable.
Little Pasture, Who Made Thee?
A lamb, a pasture, a question that is only seemingly naïve. Behind the bucolic image lies a complex ecosystem, co-constructed by humans and nature, fragile and far from self-evident.
The Himalayan Challenge: Power for China, Tension for Everyone
One river, two names, a disputed destiny: the Medog dam on the Yarlung-Brahmaputra promises energy — but risks sweeping away both natural and political balance.
Fast Fashion – When Dressing Costs Less, What Is The Price?
A Christmas sweater becomes the prompt to question the contradictions of fashion: fast fashion, low prices, waste, and alternatives that don’t always work as we believe.
A Living Mountain
The new mountain law promises protection and development, but it remains to be seen whether its measures can truly make these territories more vibrant and attractive.
The Battle After the Bombs: Gaza’s Ecological Decline
Rubble, contamination, and destroyed fields: the other face of the war in Gaza is an ecological collapse far too few are talking about.
COP30 in Belèm
COP30 in Belém seeks a turning point to balance commitments with concrete climate action. Between climate justice, Amazonian forests and a fair global transition.
Eco-Emotions: How to Use Them Against the Ecological Crisis
Between awe and sorrow, the vanishing glaciers leave us with a choice: be frozen by eco-anxiety or turn our anger into action for the planet.
One Land, one Border, one Story
There are people who by their very nature are inseparably bound to the forest: the case of the Cimbri.
LIFE Program, Endangered: New European Budgets Neglect Biodiversity
Scientists, naturalists and ecologists are worried about the new European Union budgeting drafts: the LIFE program is no longer mentioned. What is it, what is its function, and why does it matter so much?
Experiential Learning to Advocate for the Future
Environmental education empowers youth to tackle climate crises. In Trentino, students created quizzes after field trips, turning learning into action for a greener future.
Too Much, Too Often: How Overtourism Is Shrinking the Mountains
Summer sparks the desire to escape, but mass tourism leaves deep marks. In the mountains — like elsewhere — we need a new kind of travel: more respectful, more conscious, and fairer for all.
Val di Torba
Peat extraction in South Tyrol sparks debate, but can design bridge the divide? A Salurn exhibition explores its role in shaping a hopeful post-extraction future, balancing research, politics, and society.
Chimborazo: the Closest Point to the Sun
Chimborazo is the highest point from Earth’s center, making it the closest to the Sun. Everest is taller from sea level, but Chimborazo’s position near the equator gives it the greatest peak distance from Earth’s core.
The Route to the North
Greenland’s vast resources and strategic location in the Arctic are crucial for the green transition and new trade routes. In the era of global warming, they have never mattered so much.
The “Climate Finance” COP29 in Baku
Climate finance was discussed at COP29 in Baku. Yet, geopolitical tensions and uncertain outcomes dominated the scene, slowing down necessary action to combat the effects of global warming.
A New Life for the Italian Mountains
A “Mountain Law” to revitalize and make mountain areas attractive once again. Mountains don’t need political divisions but rather concrete, forward-thinking actions.
Drowned by the Climate: Brazil’s Flooding Nightmare
Historic floods in Southern Brazil highlight the severe impact of climate change, with 400 cities submerged and lives lost. Recovery is ongoing. Learn how the climate crisis worsens such events and how to help.
March 26th: International Climate Day
32 years have passed since the 26th of March was deigned as Global Climate Day. How has climate changed these years and what do we have to do for the next ones?
Farmer’s Strikes: The Need of Reshaping Spanish and European Agriculture
We have been seeing several strikes coming from the countryside lately. What are their claims, how and to what they can affect, and which are the possible solutions?
How the EU is Revising its 2040 Climate Targets amid Farmers’ Strikes
Behind the EU’s ambitious 2040 climate targets lurks a controversial omission of agricultural emissions and a heavy reliance on unproven carbon capture and storage technologies.
Sustainability Implications of Dutch Far-right Victory
The far-right victory of Dutch populist Geert Wilders fits into the growing right-wing sentiment in Europe. GreenMarked explored the implications of this election result for sustainability in the Netherlands.
EU Takes Decisive Action Against Greenwashing and Misleading Environmental Claims
The EU started to tackle greenwashing and increase consumer awareness. This follows a trend of growing environmental awareness to ensure that ecological claims match genuine efforts to protect our Planet.
The Summer of Hail Storms in Northeastern Italy
Gigantic hailstones have repeatedly hit farm fields in northeastern Italy this summer. Will these extreme hailstorms become the “new normal” in Italy?
A Pinnacle Crumbles in the Alps: Hydrogeological Safety in Veneto and Trentino
Two iconic pinnacles on the Veneto-Trentino border give way after a week of thunderstorms. Funding and technical knowledge are needed to prevent hydrogeological risk and strategic choices are needed to best guide the course of nature.
The Environmental Policies of the World Economic Forum: Conspiracy or Salvation?
The behavior of the World Economic Forum has raised controversial opinions among the people. Some look at the Forum with suspicion, others believe they truly care and act for the environment.
Brazil’s 2023 Environmental Agenda: First Steps towards Reintegration
Lula is Brazil’s new official president. At COP 27 he delivered a strong environmental message to the world: “Brazil will stand for the Amazon and the indigenous people living in there”
Extreme Environmentalism: The Other Side of the Coin
Clashing with art is the new controversial form of environmentalism.
Brazilian Elections: What did Bolsonaro do for the Environment in the Last Four Years?
As the final round of the Brazilian presidential election approaches, we hereby review some key events of Jair Bolsonaro’s past environmental agenda.
A hungry game: climate change, COVID-19, and the Ukraine war
With the climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine the risk of a global food crisis has become very real.
War in Ukraine. What about the environment?
The environment is the silent casualty of war. What are the effects of the war in Ukraine on the environment?
Adapt or burn. A look at the dramatic increase of wildfires in Italy to get ready for summer 2022
Droughts and high temperatures have raised the number of forest fires in the Alps. Unlike the fire-adapted Mediterranean environment, Alpine ecosystems are not ready for these events.
With the Russian-Ukrainian war natural gas is out of the game. Is the European Union’s Green Deal derailing?
Renewables are not yet enough to help the EU reach total energy independence. In January, the Parliament decided to bet on nuclear power. How green is this bet?
An organic district for the Province of Trento: rejected, but…
The referendum to establish a provincial organic district in Trentino was rejected but it shows that more than 65,000 Trentino citizens want a more sustainable type of agriculture.
Who stands for the organic district referendum?
Two days from referendum day, which political party has openly sided for and against the provincial organic district in Trentino?
Trentino and its farming sector. Time to return the favor for cleaner water courses
Due to farming products, the Adige river and many water courses in Val di Non have recorded exceedances of the admissible contamination thresholds.
Royal Dutch Shell forced to drastically reduce CO₂ emissions
Shell lost the trial against Friends of the Earth – Netherlands and will have to drop their CO2 emissions by 45 % by the end of 2030. For the second time, a Dutch Jury has charged an oil company for climate responsibility.
