Sustainable Travel

by ITALY | Thu, 08/28/2008 - 03:45
More than a thousand solar panels are to be set up on land seized from the Mafia in Sicily, officials said Wednesday.''In place of abandoned villas and…
by ITALY | Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:08
The Mediterranean is the ''most invaded'' sea on earth, Italy's marine environment protection agency IRPA said Thurday.Two alien species now enter the Med each…
by ITALY | Tue, 08/19/2008 - 03:38
A farmer who is refusing to hand over a three-month-old deer fawn to the authorities of an Italian national park is to be prosecuted, the park confirmed Monday…
by ITALY | Tue, 08/19/2008 - 03:30
An Italian animal rights group on Monday condemned a Sicilian village for its gory annual tradition of stringing up a slaughtered goose by its feet in the…
by ITALY | Mon, 08/18/2008 - 09:20
The world's only completely solar-powered cableway turns 100 on Tuesday.The Montenero funicular railway at the Tuscan city of Livorno was unveiled on August 19…
by ITALY | Fri, 08/01/2008 - 04:04
Italian animal rights activists on Thursday protested against Giorgio Armani's support for bullfighting after the fashion icon designed a special outfit for a…
by ITALY | Thu, 07/31/2008 - 03:27
The widespread use of pesticides is decimating Italy's honeybee population and costing millions of euros in lost crops, beekeepers and farmers warned on…
by ITALY | Mon, 07/28/2008 - 09:33
An ancient Greek trading ship that has lain on the seabed off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily for 2,500 years was brought to the surface for the first…
by ITALY | Sat, 07/26/2008 - 03:10
A fire broke out at a Peroni beer plant in Bari Friday after two tanks exploded.The blaze sent plumes of black smoke billowing over nearby houses and an…
by ITALY | Fri, 07/25/2008 - 03:14
Two Italian climbers were rescued by helicopter in the Himalayas Thursday.The two, Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer, had been trying to get back down the Nanga…