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Government advisers urge more support for heat pumps and solar panels to boost home retrofits

Government advisers urge more support for heat pumps and solar panels to boost home retrofits

It says much more help is needed for homeowners to fit solar panels and heat pumps and get rid of oil and gas boilers. The call comes as the number of heat pumps installed fell last year and as fast-approaching 2030 targets for installation move...

Hors Bordeaux tasting notes: Italy and Spain (reds)

Hors Bordeaux tasting notes: Italy and Spain (reds)

As the first wine releases start to hit La Place de Bordeaux, db‘s Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay gives his verdict on the Italian and Spanish red wines rolling out in the September campaign. Dawn in Tuscany, Siena Province, Italy A note on the...

Climate change is an injustice multiplier. Not an asteroid

Climate change is an injustice multiplier. Not an asteroid

Original post >> People and Nature How we talk about climate change matters a great deal, Friederike Otto argues in this very welcome book. We need to think not about “the whole world ending”, but about the parts of the world “already being...

Climate protesters throw paint on Sagrada Familia

Climate protesters throw paint on Sagrada Familia

Protesters have thrown paint on the Sagrada Familia. Photo Credit: Giulia Angotti via Unsplash ANGERED climate activists from the Futuro Vegetal organisation threw red and black paint on the façade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on Sunday,...

Climate Science Digest: September 2, 2025

Climate Science Digest: September 2, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (September 1, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. Changing wind patterns caused upwelling failure in the Gulf of Panama The...

2025 F1 Italian Grand Prix: What is the weather forecast this weekend?

2025 F1 Italian Grand Prix: What is the weather forecast this weekend?

The sport will head to the iconic Circuit Autodromo Nazionale Monza to host the annual Italian Grand Prix this weekend. The track has hosted every single edition of the race apart from the 1980 edition, when the circuit was closed for...

Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

Storm in a Coffee Cup – a catalogue of global warming effects

Got a spare £2bn lying around unused? If so, here’s an investment opportunity. Coca-Cola, owner of the coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, wants rid of it. Analysts say the asking price is £2bn, though it could probably be snapped up for £1.5bn. So...

Team Vestas Wind replaces navigator ahead of Volvo Ocean Race return

Team Vestas Wind replaces navigator ahead of Volvo Ocean Race return

The Danish-based team that ran aground on a reef in the Indian Ocean in the Volvo Ocean Race will replace its navigator when it rejoins the fleet for the final two legs later this year. Team Vestas Wind announced Friday that navigator Wouter...

Kind of a Fig Deal: The Italian Garden Project Preserves Old World Plants, Traditions

Kind of a Fig Deal: The Italian Garden Project Preserves Old World Plants, Traditions

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ITALIAN GARDEN PROJECT Mary Menniti wants to see her Italian roots (and yours!) sprout up in gardens throughout the United States.In 2011, the Sewickley resident founded The Italian Garden Project, a nonprofit that documents,...

A New Palazzo Hotel in Puglia, Italy's 'White City' Has Some of the Region's Best Views

A New Palazzo Hotel in Puglia, Italy's 'White City' Has Some of the Region's Best Views

Vista Ostuni The exterior facade and pool at Vista Ostuni in Puglia, Italy.Vista Ostuni The new hotel offers a luxury home base in the heart of Puglia, Italy's Valle d’Itria, a short walk from the town of Ostuni. Vista Ostuni is true to its name...

More severe weather Tue, sunshine, average temperatures Wed

More severe weather Tue, sunshine, average temperatures Wed

Italy will experience another wave of severe weather Tuesday but sunshine and average temperatures for the period will return Wednesday, a top forecaster said Tuesday. Torrential rain caused widespread flooding and landslides in Liguria overnight...

Piccolina gets set to serve Italian sandwiches, pizza and more in the upper RAD

To realize their big dream, Elana and Nate Pearlman went small. Their soon-to-open restaurant, Piccolina, occupies just 800 square feet, split equally between the kitchen and dining room. When it launches later this month with a menu devoted to...

Principal Asset Management secures Italian footwear manufacturing hub in strategic sale-and-leaseback

Principal Asset Management secures Italian footwear manufacturing hub in strategic sale-and-leaseback

Principal Asset Management's LOG IN fund has strengthened its foothold in Italy's thriving industrial landscape, completing its fifth acquisition in the country through a carefully orchestrated sale-and-leaseback transaction that underscores the...

The ultimate guide to spending your next vacation in Italy, inspired by Hande Erçel

The ultimate guide to spending your next vacation in Italy, inspired by Hande Erçel

Life How to spend your summer vacation like Hande Erçel? As the summer is coming to an end, we’re already dreaming of our next vacation, or whether we can squeeze one in before we move on from the sun. For this iteration of travel inspiration, we...

Indonesians vs Swiss company Holcim: ‘We want to save our island’ 

Indonesians vs Swiss company Holcim: ‘We want to save our island’ 

Ibu Asmania (left) and Arif Pujianto, residents of Pulau Pari in Indonesia, are asking Swiss cement producer Holcim to reduce its CO2 emissions. Swissinfo Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector Select your language...

Asbestos scandal engulfs Italian ferry after controversial Croatia refurbishment plan

Asbestos scandal engulfs Italian ferry after controversial Croatia refurbishment plan

The Italy-flagged ferry Moby Drea, once cleared by Italian authorities for refurbishment in Croatia, has re-emerged as a controversial dismantling case after protests from Croatian civil society organizations exposed its heavy asbestos...

Ecobat sells Italian battery and polypropylene recycling business to Haiki + S.p.A

Ecobat sells Italian battery and polypropylene recycling business to Haiki + S.p.A

Ecobat has announced it has sold its battery and polypropylene recycling business in Italy to Haiki + S.p.A. The transaction includes the battery recycling leader’s facilities in Marcianise, Paderno, Dugnano, and Bologna. This sale marks Ecobat’s...

French TV Exports Hit Second Highest Revenues in Last 30 Years, Despite Tough Climate

French TV Exports Hit Second Highest Revenues in Last 30 Years, Despite Tough Climate

French TV shows continued to export well in 2024, again exceeding the €200 million ($233 million) mark despite an increasingly difficult international economic climate. Presenting the annual report by French national film board CNC and Unifrance,...

Jamie Vardy to be team-mates with Benito Mussolini's great-grandson after completing move to Italy with wife Rebekah

Jamie Vardy to be team-mates with Benito Mussolini's great-grandson after completing move to Italy with wife Rebekah

By LUKE POWER, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 04:14 EDT, 2 September 2025 | Updated: 07:06 EDT, 2 September 2025 Jamie Vardy may have thought he was signing up for sun and spaghetti as he arrived in Italy to a mob of supporters on Sunday night. What...

What shoppers really think of climate-smart chips and planet-saving pastries

What shoppers really think of climate-smart chips and planet-saving pastries

Key takeaways: Shoppers talk up sustainability, but price, taste and convenience still rule the basket. Consumers back eco features they can see – packaging, waste reduction, conservation – more than abstract CSR promises. The old ‘green means...

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