Environment
Starling problem worst along LungotevereRome's annual campaign to move the capital’s troublesome wintering starlings away from central areas will not take place this year, due to lack of funds.Around this time ever...
Bottled water in Italy is big business but there is nothing wrong with Rome’s tap water
While sitting down at a local trattoria in the charming Trastevere neighbourhood on a hot summer day, I ordered a bottle of local F...
City promises four new trees for every tree felled
The contentious tree-felling operation to make way for metro C works in the S. Giovanni area has been stalled until 8 October while the city "verifies" Roma Metropoli...
Alternative Falcognana site opposed by locals
The Malagrotta rubbish dump west of Rome closed permanently on 1 October after serving as the capital's refuse facility for the last 30 years.
The site chosen to replac...
Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has declared a traffic-free "Notte bianca", dedicated to the city's cyclists and pedestrians, on the night between 16 and 17 May next year.
Private vehicles, including scooters and mo...
Residents in the S. Giovanni area of Rome are protesting over the city's plan to continue chopping down trees on Via Sannio and Viale Ipponio, to make way for the troubled Metro C project.
Local resident associations,...
The Villa Borghese lake, popularly known as the laghetto, will be out of bounds for the next six months after water was discovered leaking into surrounding areas.
Once the lake is drained, engineers will begin a &euro...
Italian environmental agency Legambiente has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office in Rome after 60 young trees in Parco della Garbatella were destroyed by vandals.
The trees included olive, elm, oak, floweri...
Geysers, from three to five meters high, have started erupting gases near Fiumicino, just next to the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport boundaries. According to the fire department the gases, if inhaled, could turn...
“Turn off your air conditioners when they are not needed” is the message coming from Rome's ecology-conscious mayor Ignazio Marino.
As well as bicycling to work and pedestrianising the roads around the Col...
Research is under way on the Acqua Vergine, one of Rome's oldest aqueducts, to discover the amount of radon in its water.
It is thought that radon may have caused some of the illnesses suffered by ancient Romans rathe...
As Rome braces itself for a heatwave the civil protection authorities have issued a red alert "Level 3" health warning for Friday 26 July and subsequent days.
According to current predictions, temperaratures are...
The pace of climate change in Italy is faster than the rest of the world, according to the country's Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) in a report presented on 17 July in Rome.
Descr...
More than 80 trees are scheduled to be cut down in the centre of Rome at 09.30 on Monday 1 July as part of construction works for the Metro C project, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The 84 trees facing...
Italian environmental association Legambiente has called on the newly-elected mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino to tackle the capital's "illegal" night-time noise levels.
Tests undertaken by the group, in collaboration wit...
The ministry of health has issued a "red alert" heat wave warning for Rome as temperatures are predicted to rise up to 40 degrees in the early afternoon of Thursday 20 June.
The heat is expected to reach its peak on 2...
As the summer nears, there is good news for beach lovers in Lazio.
The region has retained its five “blue flag” beaches from last year, with Anzio, Circeo, Sabaudia, Sperlonga and the Cala Nave beach...
From 2 April the capital's refuse company AMA Roma will provide a free home collection service for bulky household rubbish, such as sofas, beds, televisions sets and washing machines, which will be taken away for recycli...
The annual "Earth Hour" event takes place in Rome on Saturday 23 March at 20.30.
Backed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) the global initiative involves famous buildings around the world turning off their lights...
Rome has banned the most polluting vehicles from circulating within the city's green belt (the area inside the GRA ring road) on Tuesday 8 January from 07.30 to 20.30, as part of its anti-smog measures. The ban affects t...
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