After years of passive and silent participation, Italy decided on 3 May to activate its participation in the International Seabed Authority (ISA), and to organise a high-level meeting between ISA Secretary General Michael Lodge, Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci, Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, and Undersecretary of
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An American company, DST Digital Sky Technology, born as a rib of NASA, but financially supported by the Russian oil giant Gazprom and directed by two oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner), launches micro-satellites into orbit that allow the planet to be monitored inch by inch, and
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At the beginning we wanted to write a report on the climate situation and the dangers faced by the fauna in the coldest (and most important for the Earth’s ecosystem) area of the planet. We wanted to start with a barbaric slaughter of dolphins and try to
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In life, once you have achieved wealth, you have several choices available to you, of which the generally preferred one is to enjoy the money while the money works for its master. Apparently, one of the Russian oligarchs, Ališer Usmanov, made the same choice. Until you start
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Amsterdam, December 1942. Despite the harsh winter conditions and the continuing war, this one is a celebration day. SS officer Pieter Schelte Heerema gets married, only happy faces around him. He does a good job: he compiles the lists of the Dutch who are deported to Eastern
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This is a science fiction drawing. But how far is reality from these invented images? Little. Underwater military bases, from which we can control what happens on land, was an idea of writers who have become real projects since World War II (in the United States, the
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In one of his extremely successful novels, “The Swarm”, published in 2004, the German writer Frank Schätzing tells how the exploitation of the seabed irreparably changes not only the flora and fauna of the abyss, but also the balance of tectonics of the planet. Indeed, the continental
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