🇮🇹Italy

In the Tamburi district of Taranto, families were told to keep children indoors on windy days, because the wind carries iron dust off the slag heaps of the steelworks next door.

Italy's first 'fishing for litter' platform, paying fishermen to bring back the marine waste they haul up in their nets.

A Milan-founded network turns ordinary residents into air-quality researchers, then takes City Hall to court over the pollution the data reveals.

With fewer than 60 Marsican brown bears left on Earth, this Abruzzo-based group is stripping old farm fencing and replanting fruit trees to reopen the bear's mountain corridors.

The Mediterranean has lost 40% of its large predators in sixty years — but close one deep pit to trawlers and the hake, the scampi and even the bottom sharks come back.