The High Representative and the European Commission set out an integrated response to the challenges of the Arctic.

Il progetto promosso dall’Università di Milano-Bicocca, dall’Università di Roma Tor Vergata, dall’Istituto comprensivo Copernico e dal Parco Nord di Milano consente di esplorare alcuni ambienti naturali in modo interattivo seguendo percorsi di apprendimento ricchi di contenuti multimediali. La presentazione è oggi al Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano.

Milano, 22 aprile 2016 – La natura a portata di touch: grazie ai diorami digitali oggi è possibile conoscere in modo approfondito e “toccare con mano” anche gli ecosistemi geograficamente più lontani mediante computer, tablet, LIM e altri strumenti digitali.

Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball.

A lack of young sauropod fossils, however, has left the earliest lives of these giants shrouded in mystery. Did they require parental care after hatching like some other dinosaurs, or were they self-reliant?

The European Commission today announced the introduction of 20 new measures in the Sahel region and Lake Chad Basin, worth over EUR 280 million in total.

The European Commission today announced the adoption of 20 new measures to assist the Sahel region and the Lake Chad Basin under the 'Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa'.

The European Commission is today releasing €10 million for research on the Zika virus, currently affecting large parts of Latin America.

The most affected country is Brazil, where the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the recent cluster of severe brain malformations in new-borns may be linked to the virus. While the risk of transmission of the Zika virus in the EU is low, there is currently no treatment or vaccine against the virus, and diagnostic tests for infections are not widely available.

Giovedì 14 aprile 2016, ore 19.00

Villa di Breme Forno, via Martinelli 23 - Cinisello Balsamo (MI)

L'oro di Milano. Usi agricoli e sociali delle acque milanesi

Per ogni città l'acqua è oro. Ciò è ancora più vero per tutte quelle città che devono la loro ricchezza economica all'agricoltura. E' il caso di Milano, la cui prosperità è storicamente frutto della produzione agraria, grazie ad un sapiente uso delle sue acque, superficiali o sotterranee, naturali o artificiali.

Commission invests over €7.5 million under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/cfp/emff/index_en.htm) to boost innovation, growth and jobs in the marine and maritime sectors.

Today, the European Commission presented an assessment of the implications for the European Union of the new global climate agreement adopted in Paris in December 2015.

Assessment details options for safeguarding pollinators

A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies, according to the first global assessment of pollinators.

The Commission today presented its energy security package with necessary proposals to equip the EU for global energy transition as well as to be prepared for possible energy supply interruptions.