Alice Pistolesi

1 week ago | altreconomia.it | Alice Pistolesi |Monica Pelliccia

“Tutti i nostri sogni e il nostro futuro sono bloccati perché non abbiamo ottenuto il visto per lasciare la Striscia di Gaza”, scrive Zaina, 23 anni, studentessa di Amministrazione aziendale, via Whatsapp, nelle poche ore di connessione internet. Dopo diversi spostamenti tra il Nord e il Sud, la casa distrutta e gli ultimi mesi in tenda, è riuscita a tornare a vivere con la famiglia nella casa parzialmente intera di sua nonna, appena fuori Gaza.

Jul 15, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Monica Pelliccia |Alice Pistolesi

Why you can trust us In a garden in the Metropolitan Autonomous University at Iztapalapa (UAM), one of Mexico City’s universities, Fernanda Meneses sells crochet sunflowers and tulips. A few steps away, Teresa Bernal sells vegan coffee and pastries. On the other side of Mexico City, beside a subway station, Alesh Flores sells secondhand glasses, Plumita displays punk necklaces, and Elizabeth Torres Barranco delivers secondhand clothes to customers who bought them online.

Jul 2, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Alice Pistolesi

With Mexico co-hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026, major infrastructure works in the country’s three host cities could have negative impacts on local biodiversity, activists say. In Guadalajara, conservationists express concern that new developments might undermine the local puma population, which has seen a comeback in the last seven years. In Mexico City, locals say they haven’t been consulted about new roads and building projects that could threaten their water resources as well as tree cover.

Apr 26, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Alice Pistolesi

The line between legal and illegal fishing in the waters off Italy’s Calabria region is often blurred, with fishers blaming stringent top-down regulations for constricting their traditional practices. The issue is further muddied by the presence here of the ‘ndrangheta or Calabrian mafia, which investigations have shown is involved in the fish trade and also uses it as cover for illicit activities such as drug smuggling.

Apr 8, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Alice Pistolesi

Some 350 families in Palmar Sur, in southeastern Costa Rica, face eviction over the construction of a new international airport designed to serve the country’s growing tourism industry. The project, endorsed by the country’s president, also threatens a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Terraba Sierpe National Wetlands, a large mangrove ecosystem that provides habitat for scores of bird species.