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The city of Rome has asked the region of Lazio to recognize a state of natural disaster following torrential rain on 28 October when 71 mm fell in just two hours between 19.00 and 21.00. A small army of 1.600 emergency r...
Rome is the most dangerous city in Italy in terms of road safety with 21,452 accidents recorded in 2006
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Rome has fallen far down the city rankings in the latest report by Lega Ambiente on the eco-systems of cities in Italy. The report, released on 13 October in Belluno, shows that Rome has dropped to 70th position compar...
Cities in Italy have the highest percentage of residents at retirement-age in Europe. According to the Eurostats survey, Urban Audit, nine out of the ten cities with the oldest populations (old being defined as those o...
Rome is to launch a new road safety campaign in conjunction with ANIA foundation, the national body that represents insurance companies. The scheme, announced on 1 October, includes educational programmes in schools, imp...
The province of Latina has recently signed an agreement with landscape architect Professor Alan Berger of MIT to clean up the area known as the Agro Pontino, the former marshland drained by Mussolini in the 1930s. Berg...
The bike sharing scheme launched in mid June with 19 automated stations in the historic centre will expand to other areas of Rome beginning with Prati. The news of the expansion was announced on 22 September by the city...
Notices were published in foreign and Italian papers on 23 September asking for new bids for Alitalia, Italy
Sweltering temperatures in Rome make it seem impossible, but ski fans could spend Ferragosto whizzing down the slopes on Monte Terminillo, 100 km from the capital in the Lazio Apennine mountains. According to the local M...
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Scientists have warned that millions of jellyfish are currently floating a short distance off the Italian coast, particularly in the Tyrrhenian sea near Liguria.
Thus spake Silvio Berlusconi when, on Friday 18 July, he announced that
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According to a report released on 2 July by the ministry of health 96.2 per cent of Italy's coastline is suitable for swimming and 93 per cent conforms to European standards of safe swimming water. The top-ranking regi...
Levels of the airborne pollutant ozone in the capital exceeded Italian air quality standards four times in the last week of June, according the Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Lazio (ARPA). Italian law...
Right-wing Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has ditched two luxury cars used to ferry the mayor about the city in another show of one-upmanship against predecessor Walter Veltroni. Alemanno inherited the two
The Italian actress, Sophia Loren, has made an impassioned appeal for a trash cleanup in Naples and in her birthplace, the Naples suburb of Pozzuoli. "I beg you to free Campania, the province of Naples and my own Pozzuol...
The mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Iervolino, has announced that a site has been chosen for the city's first termovalorizzatore or thermocycling garbage incinerator. It will be built in Agnano, a northern suburb where ex-p...
New on tap detergent points will be inaugurated on 24 and 26 June in Lazio in the towns of Civitavecchia and Frosinone, following the success of the first
Three days of discussions and experiments on new ways towards economic, social, and environmental sustainability; after its success last year, Ecofest, the festival of the environment organised by the region of Lazio, is...
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