Environment
Lazio Region's anti-plastic barrier yields results on Tiber river.The experimental barrier to catch plastic waste on Rome's river Tiber has been a success, with 460 kilos of waste collected in the first month.
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Rome hit by 33 extreme weather events in 2018.
Heat waves, rising temperatures, droughts, floods and weather-related damage to property: Rome is ever more at risk from extreme weather, according to the Città Clima 2019...
Peregrine Falcons are breeding successfully in Rome after facing almost certain oblivion in Italy.
In recent years Italy's Peregrine Falcons have staged a successful comeback following decades of despair for the future...
Italian schools to devote one hour a week to studying climate change from next year.
Italy will become the first country in the world to make learning about climate change compulsory for school students, with 33 hours a...
Lazio Region catches floating plastic on Rome's river before it enters the sea.
An experimental barrier to catch plastic waste has been installed by the Lazio Region across the river Tiber near the coastal town of Fiumi...
Oxygen project will see Lazio Region plant a tree for each citizen.
The Lazio Region, which includes the Rome area, is to plant six million new trees: one for each citizen.
This is the target of Ossigeno (Oxygen), a...
Rome mayor crops BBC video to avoid criticism of city's trash situation.
Rome's system of recycling plastic in exchange for bus and metro tickets continues to "please the entire world", according to the city's mayor Vir...
Rome mayor slams "shameful act"
An effigy of teenage climate change activist was hung under the bridge on Via Isacco Newton, leading to Rome's Fiumicino airport.
The hanged effigy, with braids and a sign saying "Greta...
School students and adults to attend Italy's climate change protests on 27 September.
Many Rome schools will authorise their pupils' attendance at the Friday for Future climate change demonstrations in the capital on 27...
Retake Roma volunteers mark Coastal Cleanup Day and World Cleanup Week in Rome.
Volunteers from Retake Roma, the non-profit movement which tackles Rome's urban decay, organises a double event to clean up the coastal are...
Epicentre was four km from Norcia.
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck the central Italian regions of Umbria, Le Marche and Lazio at 02.02 on 1 September, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology has announced...
Lazio craft beer festival cleans up S. Severa beach near Rome.
A craft beer festival at the beachside Castle of S. Severa near Rome is offering a free beer for every full glass of cigarette butts or filters collected of...
Dolphin swimming off Rome coast with rubbish bag stuck to fin.
The dramatic image of a dolphin swimming off Rome's coast with a black rubbish bag stuck to its dorsal fin has brought renewed focus on the garbage crisis a...
Tourists take to the sea as Stromboli's volcano erupts.
The volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted on the afternoon on 3 July, killing one hiker and sending frightened tourists fleeing into the sea.
The v...
Temperatures of up to 40 degrees in Rome later this week.
Italian weather forecasters are warning of "one of the most intense heatwaves of the last decade", with temperatures in Rome set to tip 40 degrees Celsius later...
Earthquake felt clearly by many Rome residents.
A 3.7-magnitude earthquake was registered in Rome's Castelli Romani area, about 20 kilometres south-east of the capital, at 22.43 on 23 June.
The earthquake's epicentre w...
Temperatures in Rome plummet as Italy records coldest May in 62 years.
Italy has not been this cold in May since 1957, thanks to an intense wave of arctic air sweeping the country, with unseasonal snowfall, hailstones a...
City apologises to Aurelio residents after Roman actor joins tree campaign.
When road workers recently repaired the pavement on Via Nostra Signora di Lourdes, in Rome's Aurelio district, they poured asphalt around the t...
Rome highlights the environment with Earth Day 2019 in Villa Borghese.
Rome marks the 2019 edition of Earth Day with five days of events on the theme of the environment and sustainability at the Galoppatoio area of Vill...
Climate activist met pontiff in St Peter's Square.
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, met Pope Francis briefly following the pontiff's general audience in St Peter's Square on 17 April....
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