«Ci chiamate stranieri, siamo compagni di classe. Prima di contarci, ascoltateci». A dirlo è L., 12 anni, studentessa torinese, che racconta la sua scuola e un nuovo compagno francofono che la classe sta aiutando a imparare l’italiano: «Io non voglio prendere il posto di nessuno. Vorrei che a scuola ci fosse posto per tutti». Le sue parole rispondono a Giorgia Meloni, che il 20 settembre, dal palco di Fenix, la festa di Gioventù Nazionale a Roma, annunciando un tetto al numero di studenti stranieri per classe, aveva detto: «Non esiste che in una classe italiana a sentirsi in un angolo siano bambini italiani perché sono diventati la minoranza. Non si può fare». A pubblicare il video sui social è stato il padre di L.: «Papà, voglio rispondere alla Meloni, mi ha chiesto. Ho voluto darle spazio, perché chi vive la scuola ogni giorno ha qualcosa da dire a chi la governa».

Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action: Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle crisis Fears are mounting that the next UN secretary general will downgrade the priority of the climate crisis, according to...

Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above Kiental around 70 alpacas were herded down the valley, before being transported by truck to their winter farm at Aeschi, near Spiez, in the Bernese Oberland

Campaigners say plan marks a ‘notable shift’ away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality

Tropics will be among last places to benefit if global greenhouse gas emissions cut to net zero: Scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achieved The unequal impact of the climate crisis on the world’...

Superpowers cannot solve world’s problems, UN chief says in final general assembly address: António Guterres says humanity faces unprecedented convergence of threats but mechanisms for collective action are under growing strain The world’s fault lines have turned from cracks into canyons ...

Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months: New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño in th...

António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

In our first event of Autumn 2026, the Perspectives on Science Seminar will have a talk by Luis Mireles-Flores (TINT/Helsinki) titled “A Multi-Stage approach to the role of evidence in policy making: opening the black-box of the public policy process”.

York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.

The world of today is often a messy place, not just because of the havoc we wreak on nature and each other, but also because of the information and misinformation we are bombarded with. Before informa...

A six-year-old Chinese girl has set a world record after solving a Rubik's Cube in an average of 4.27 seconds.

The two new species are in the same genus and are both winged and more than 10cm long.

Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.

The next World Congress of Environmental History is set to take place in York, Canada, in 2030.

The state government is reviewing laws introduced to ensure taxpayers are not left footing the bill for rehabilitation, leaving one cattle farmer wondering: what happens next?

Exclusive: Five gardening teams shortlisted for Royal Horticultural Society’s new Railway Stations in Bloom award

People are increasingly crossing paths with the wild animals as homes ring the outskirts of forests, sparking a new era of coexistence

One man boasted to Yle that he can make 200 deepfake pornographic images a day, as Finnish law does not prevent the creating of such material.

Work on the fencing along Finland's 1,340-kilometer-long border with Russia began just over three years ago.

In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together

Climate Council forecasts more than 267,000 coastal properties will be damaged by flooding by 2100, costing hundreds of billions of dollars

Exclusive: State government delayed releasing major report into the health of the koala population for more than 12 months

Temperatures reached 1.65C above preindustrial levels, months before El Niño system reaches full strength

We encourage our grant applicants for crossing of boundaries and new initiatives. Our next annual grant call will be arranged on 1–15 September, 2021.

The City of Yarra has banned glasses with built-in cameras from its leisure centres, playgrounds and childcare centres to protect the community.

Ailsworth, Cambridgeshire: Trifid bur-marigold is struggling nationally, but thanks to a little ‘Goldilocks’ land management, it has the perfect conditions here

Even low levels of traffic noise can negate the benefits of listening to natural sounds, researchers say Hearing the trill or whistle of a bird while going about daily life is well known to boost people’s mood. But a new study suggests the psychological benefits of hearing birdsong are being threatened by traffic noise. Researchers found that even low levels of traffic noise negatively affected the benefits to wellbeing that could otherwise be derived from listening to natural sounds. Continue reading...

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis