The flora, and obviously the fauna, which has colonized the circum-Mediterranean territory, has had to face a very particular situation: rainfall concentrated only in a few months, with consequent long dry periods and a long annual photoperiod. These characteristics lead to consider the Mediterranean climate as subtropical. In fact, the […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
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All over the world, the fires that flare up and devour thousands of hectares of forests and green areas are increasingly frequent, an environmental and social scourge that reappears every year with new strength and is linked to human and cultural, climatic, vegetational, and morphological factors. The progressive abandonment of […]
SEPTEMBER, let’s go.It’s time to migrate.Now in the land of Abruzzo my shepherdsthey leave the pens and go towards the sea:they descend to the wild Adriaticthat is green like the pastures of the mountains.The Shepherds – Gabriele D’Annunzio Transhumance is true migration, a behavior of regular commuting between two places […]
The term “natural disaster” is used more and more frequently. The flooding of a river, an earthquake, a landslide, a tornado, a waterspout, or a tsunami are not disasters, they are natural phenomena, the causes of which we have known for some time and which we are able to predict […]
Kindness coupled with courage means taking responsibility for one’s actionsand one’s existence in the world,accepting the responsibility of being human. This month we recommend a reading that I would define as “human ethology”.In the current modes of communication, public and private, the latent aggressiveness in society often explodes in forms […]