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Birdlife Slowly Returns to Venice Lagoon

by Anonymous (not verified) | Tue, 04/01/2014 - 20:00

It is widely known that Venice's lagoon ecosystem is heavily contaminated due to industrial waste, causing a serious impact on the animal and plant life.…

Lifestyle

Ban on Venice Cruise Ships Temporarily Suspended

by Silvia Donati | Tue, 03/18/2014 - 21:15

The attempt to ban large cruise ships passing through the Venice lagoon has just suffered a setback. A regional administrative court on Monday accepted a…

Lifestyle

Young Entrepreneurs Fight the Crisis with Green Businesses

by Anonymous (not verified) | Mon, 03/17/2014 - 00:16

A spirit both entrepreneurial and green characterized the last edition of Coldiretti’s Green Oscars, when young Italians presented their creative ideas to…

Culture

Museum of the Living Sea Opens in Palermo

by Anonymous (not verified) | Fri, 02/07/2014 - 00:45

The Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva (The Living Museum of the Sea) is slated to open tomorrow in Palermo. The museum will be promoting a series of coastal…

Lifestyle

Waste Materials Become Gifts

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 12/20/2013 - 04:00

The Christmas tree greeting visitors at the entrance of the Re Mida Center near Bologna is both beautiful and environmental-friendly. Made entirely from…

Lifestyle

Mount Etna Flares Up

by Silvia Donati | Tue, 12/17/2013 - 03:46

The latest eruption of Italy's Mount Etna was a particularly intense and spectacular one: bursts of lava fountains and moving plumes of ash, as well as violent…

Lifestyle

Giant Cruise Ships to be Banned from Venice Beginning Next Year

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/08/2013 - 07:00

Large cruise ships passing through the Venice lagoon are to be banned effective November 2014, and a limit on smaller cruise vessels will kick in January,…

Lifestyle

Man Builds DIY Amusement Park In Italian Forest

by Carol King | Mon, 11/04/2013 - 05:45

An Italian man who has spent 40 years building an amusement park in the middle of a forest in northern Italy has become the subject of a documentary.The man,…

Via Alessandrina Reopens at Trajan’s Markets in Rome

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/01/2013 - 07:00

Via Alessandrina, which runs alongside Via dei Fori Imperali through Trajan's Markets in Rome, has reopened to the public.It had been closed for more than a…

Culture

Italy’s Lake Como Has A Monster Called Lariosauro

by Carol King | Thu, 10/31/2013 - 07:00

Scotland is famous for the Loch Ness monster, Nessie, but Italy’s Lake Como also has a monster: Lariosauro – or ‘Larry’ for short.Lariosauro lives in Lake Como…