Arzano, Casal di Principe, Marcianise and Villa Literno. As of today, these four municipalities in the hinterland of Naples and Caserta are off limits for the soldiers stationed in the numerous US Navy bases present in the Campania region. The Command of the US Navy in Europe has issued an order decreeing the "temporary suspension of rental agreements" for its personnel, continue...

Ivory Yes and No. A few days after the conclusion of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), at which 171 countries joined to discuss the control of trade in endangered species, debate over the legalization of ivory is still raging. On one side are countries who see it as a possible boon for local economies in developing nations, while others fear a massacre of animals symbolic of Africa. continue...

 While G8 leading industrial nations are talking about climate emergency and looking at a second Kyoto protocol, wishing the United States to join the multilateral agreements on the reduction of greengas gas emissions, Ecuador gives everyone a lesson launching a revolutionary ecological campaign: for humanity’s sake, continue...

Moratorium. When Yusuf Irwandi was elected governor of Aceh, he made a promise. After the Tsunami, the guerrilla leader of the separatist group Gam signed a peace agreement with the government, and laid out first on his political plan the end of the environmental destruction that over the years cleared half of the Sumatra forest. Irwandi called for a long-term moratorium of timber cutting and trade. continue...

With a surprise move, last Monday the Parliament of the African Union asked the western world to intervene to resolve the question of global warming. Even though the West is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases (G8 countries emit 50 per cent, USA alone 25 per cent and Africa 5 per cent, according to a recent UN study), paradoxically Africa will be the worst affected by the problem. A problem which, if not resolved, continue...

Written for us by Alessandro Greblo*   The first thing that strikes you when you arrive at Entebbe international airport, 30 kilometres outside Kampala, is the lush vegetation. The green of the mango, tea, coffee, coco and banana plants show that here at the Equator the rain falls relentlessly throughout the year, alternating with a hot but not scorching sun. continue...

Summer in Australia is already over, but the worst drought ever shows no sign of stopping. Since 2002 in Australia it has rained less, it has rained too little, summer or winter makes little difference: what was seen at first as a cyclic climatic event is now seen as a consequence of the global warming caused by man. And the price is payed by everyone: the national economy, the farmers in the boundless outback, continue...