News Archive: 2009: environment
04, 2009 December:
Flying start for European ski season
Alpine ski resorts are preparing to open their doors to eager winter sports enthusiasts this weekend and the ski season is off to a promising start as heavy, fresh snow has fallen across much of Europe - so get your skates on and make the most of the white stuff...
10, 2009 November:
Italy's White Lady shrinks
A lot of women would like to shrink, but this particular lady has rather overdone it: Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco, Europe's highest peak sometimes known as the "White Lady", on the three-way border between France, Italy and Switzerland, has shrunk by 18 inches or 45 centimetres in two years. Its height now stands at 15,782.3 feet or 4,810.45 metres...
Venice: a city in crisis
Venice is a museum struggling to survive in a modern age - the future of one of the most famous cities in the world is under threat - Venice's population is undergoing a demographic crisis and could be a veritable ghost city within 40 years if its population continues to decline at the current rate...
29, 2009 October:
Italian wine lovers
"Excellent quality but a fall in quantity and prices": that is the verdict of Assoenologi, Italy's Association of Enologists and Enotechnicians, on the 2009 harvest...
08, 2009 October:
Blooming marvellous
Pré-Saint-Didier received the Entente Florale Award, during the ceremony organized in Cardiff last September...
09, 2009 September:
A watery grave
The historic port in Venice is a tourist hotspot and bustling, boat filled venue already, so plans by Italian authorities to further expand the port in order to accommodate far bigger ships in greater numbers is worrying many, as they fear the plans could threaten the already fragile city on water...
28, 2009 August:
Big stink about nothing in Capri
Officials in the Italian resort of Capri say a ban has been lifted on the island's Blue Grotto and that tourists can resume exploring its famed waters...
20, 2009 August:
Back to the future
Celenza Valforte in Puglia, Italy takes a day every year to celebrate the past. Shops are closed, electric lightning is switched off, burning torches lit and the town is decked in medieval symbols...
12, 2009 August:
Hot sausage
The rising temperatures are giving farmers and producers of salami and cheeses in Italy problems and worries for the future...
07, 2009 August:
Seaside, Italian style
Each year the Italian Government releases a report of the state of the Italian seaside which classifies areas of the sea according to the quality of the water and their suitability for swimming or not. It also includes some very interesting statistics about the size of the Italian seaside...
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