By Alberto Sclaverano Thrash (2026) opens with a caption that explains to us that “since 1980, the intensity, frequency, and duration of Atlantic hurricanes have increased 250%”. The increase in the number of violent hurricanes is a direct consequence of climate change, the film says. It is impossible not to think of the many hurricanes, whose names are at this point well-known around the world, that have plagued the US East coast during the last decades, and particularly t

How the Greenland film series could help us to appreciate the planet we have been gifted with By Alberto Sclaverano Released in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the sci-fi disaster movie, directed by genre specialist Ric Roman Waugh ( Angel Has Fallen , 2019), was a modest success. While it is not a movie explicitly related to climate change, it nevertheless offers a commentary on the beauty of our planet, a thing that many characters of the film really start to appreciate

Film Review: the moving real story of Dian Fossey needs to be rediscovered By Alberto Sclaverano The 1988 American biographical drama adventure film Gorillas in the Mist is based on the life (and mysterious death) of primatologist Dian Fossey (1932-1985). The movie is made in a way that makes it accessible to teenagers: it offers a moving portrayal of a great female figure, a woman who will always be remembered as a key figure in XX Century primatology. The film is inspired b

Film Review: Fire and Ash, a visual-experience film with strong ecological messages By Alberto Sclaverano The third chapter in James Cameron's epic science-fiction saga follows the events of the previous movie, Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). Cameron seems to create a (very actual and sad) parallel between the desire for war and the destruction of the ecosystem. Much like on Earth, on Pandora, the ones who want to go to war and kill their counterparts are also the ones w

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By Roberto Razeto A Deep Dive into China's Heat Crisis and Global Implications As the sun blazed down on Beijing's bustling streets, the...

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The "Democracy, Sustainability and Corporations" conference was held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on February 21st, 2023, as part of...

As explained by an indigenous woman elected to Brazil's National Congress By: Amanda Vargas Sonia Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá are on a...

By Alberto Sclaverano There are many documentaries about climate change. Some of them are big-budget Netflix production, others are...