The second international workshop "Small Islands, Big Challenges – SIRaD 2025," sponsored by UNESCO and IOC-WESTPAC, was held in Malang, Indonesia. The initiative brought together researchers and policymakers to discuss new strategies for resilience and sustainable development for small islands, focusing on biodiversity, coastal tourism, fisheries, and environmental governance. Topics included…
In a statement released on September 10, the National Association of Minor Island Municipalities expressed solidarity with the local administrations and residents affected by new storms. For ANCIM, the frequency and intensity of these events require a change of pace: planning, prevention, and infrastructure investments to strengthen the resilience of the smaller islands, transcending the emergency approach. Continue reading: Statement…
On the Sicilian island, a team of Italian researchers has identified a natural environment with geological similarities to Mars and that could also simulate conditions on early Earth. The study, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, is the result of a collaboration between the National Research Council (CNR), the National Institute for Environmental Protection (INAF), the University of Tuscia – Viterbo, and Sapienza University of Rome.
An awaited guest of the second week of Cop26, the United Nations climate conference underway in Glasgow, Obama, who defined himself as an island kid, reiterated that "never before are islands threatened" by the consequences of the climate crisis. An appeal that echoes the even more iconic one of Simon Kofe, Minister of Justice, of the ...
A cylindrical artifact made dry with black stones and a tiny opening, so low that you have to bow your head to enter. Inside a single tree, a citrus fruit jealously guarded away from bad weather, frost and wind, grown thanks to the microclimate that is created inside and the humidity that makes it strange ...
A THE POSSIBLE ISLAND_Dossier Ita EDUCATIONAL LABORATORIES PRESS RELEASE 26-07 PDF ITA TPI - DIARY OF BOARD 25-07 PD THE POSSIBLE ISLAND is an Italian-French association which, from 6 to 30 June 2021, organized its first artistic and scientific residency on the island of Vulcano, in the Aeolian Islands in Sicily. This cultural project was born from the desire to ...
The island of Elba aims to become a model of social innovation and sustainability thanks to the commitment and guidance of the local company, Acqua dell'Elba. In June 2021 the Sustainability Manifesto of the Island of Elba was presented, a document created as part of a project promoted by the Acqua dell'Elba local company in collaboration with the consulting company EY which has ...
In May 2021, a fleet of four new sweepers was inaugurated in the port of Bacoli (Naples) who will have the task of keeping the waters around Ischia, Procida and the other Phlegrean islands that overlook the Gulf of Naples clean. The purchase of the four "sentinels of the sea" is part of the pollution prevention strategy of beaches and coasts envisaged by ...
The Blu Marine Service of San Benedetto del Tronto carried out a project on the Tremiti Islands selected as part of the MedPAN Regular Call for Small Projects and co-financed by the French Facility for Global Environment and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. The project, which takes the name of Tremiti Plastic Free Islands, had as its…
The Tuscan Archipelago National Park commissioned a project for the creation of a service center and the contextual redevelopment of the current degraded area located in the center of the island of Giannutri. The planning process was shared both with the Municipality of Giglio and with the Superintendency of Siena and thanks to the comparison and ...