Roberta Fabbrocino

Circular economy and sustainability journalist. Specialized in environmental issues, her work has been published on several publications that tackle these topics such as Lampoon Magazine, Luxiders and Sustain the Mag. She also works as a content writer for sustainable companies.

Deep Sea Mining: the new gold rush is for minerals

Green colonialism: raw materials rush props up

Oppenheimer: human fragility in a blockbuster biopic

Eco-urbanism – strengthening the railway system in the EU

The Role of Black – in fashion and human history

A sea thermometer – saving Posidonia for ocean preservation

Oceans preservation – updates on the Greenland ice sheet stability’s impact

Bed bug panic in Paris – Internet psychosis or actual crisis?

Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new

Want to see the world through Ruth Asawa’s eyes? Start from her drawings

From agroforestry to biodiversity: alien species and biological invasion

Hyper-feminine styles – How is internet culture changing the trend cycle?

It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable

DIVA – the power of Divas is on display at the V&A museum in London

From beans to buildings: recycle coffee grounds to make eco concrete

Madelynn De La Rosa’s menu of ceramic sugary treats – a trip in the world of fake cakes

Archeologia Arborea: a green time capsule preserving almost-lost fruit varieties

The story of an anthropogenic biological invasion – the Ailanthus Altissima

Forests: primary forest loss stays at low levels in both Indonesia and Malaysia

Solitude and sexual innuendo: Georgia O’Keeffe’s paper drawings

Hidden waste – 23 million returned and unsold garments sent to landfill or incinerated

Climate change awareness and weight among the public – an international perspective

Using beauty and ugliness together – Thirza Schaap’s plastic waste sculptures

Fact-checking: is the use of coal making a comeback? – An international analysis

Ordering the chaos – Gina Soden: the layers of our relationship with ruins

Trashion Report – Clothing waste from Europe is harming people and nature in Kenya

What are the health consequences of fossil fuel overreliance?

Keeping track – how much public money is going towards military expenses in the West?

Oslo becoming the world’s first capital with a zero-emissions public transport system

Recurring water scarcity – its causes, impact, management, and prevention in Europe

COP27 decoded: What precisely happened at the Sharm El Sheikh climate convention?

For art’s sake: Courtney Mattison: marine conservation science and sculpting

June and July 2022 – climate anomalies, heat waves, and extreme weather events

Why is the melting of glaciers making the land rise in Iceland? The land of ice

Nature’s shield – Deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, pandemics: it’s all linked

Water temperature – seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water

Pollution has reached the highest region on Earth – the garbage crisis in Tibet

Dirty money – Banking on Climate Chaos 2022: listing the banks that are financing fossil fuel companies

Droughts, water scarcity and air pollution – how are these issues interconnected?

Making a city green – Tallinn, the first European capital with free public transport

Fossil fuel reduction, energy efficiency improvement, electrification – IPCC WG III AR6

Extreme weather – the heatwave that impacted Indian and Pakistan in 2022

A fair and just transition to renewable energy – The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Blue carbon: nature-based techniques to control the impact of anthropogenic activities

Global warming: methane emissions jumped to a new record in 2021, while CO2 continued to increase

Inequality kills – Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds

The role of pollinators – Keepers of biodiversity, food supply, and more

IPCC’s WG2 2022 report – Every fraction of a degree prevented saves lives

Building a renewable powered supply chain – the future of the fashion industry

Our thousands of years old glaciers don’t contain water alone, but our history too

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call to action

Deep Sea Mining: the new gold rush is for minerals

Deep-sea mining: ravaging the oceans in the name of transition. Norway is the first country in the world to say yes to finding raw materials in the ocean depths. Environmentalists take action

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raw materials

Green colonialism: raw materials rush props up

Raw materials – an estimated 100 billion tons (Gt) of raw materials are mined each year. Of these, over 90% came from virgin resources. Less than 10% is coming from recycling

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cinema

Oppenheimer: human fragility in a blockbuster biopic

Murphy gave layered portrayal of Nolan’s Oppenheimer, with his complicated interpersonal relationships with colleagues and partners, self-mythologization, and human fragility

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urbanism

Eco-urbanism – strengthening the railway system in the EU

Train transport – Expanding the trans-European night train service can enable eco urbanism, contribute to the EU environmental sustainability goals and bring European cities closer together

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Humanities

The Role of Black – in fashion and human history

More than just a color – exploring the intersection of fashion, culture, and humanities by tracing attraction of black in the tapestry of western fashion history

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Reportage

A sea thermometer – saving Posidonia for ocean preservation

Ocean preservation and climate action in the Mediterranean Sea – exploring Posidonia meadows’ effect on marine biodiversity, the global climate, and marine ecosystem’s health

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Reportage

Oceans preservation – updates on the Greenland ice sheet stability’s impact

Science news – new studies show us the effects of anthropogenic global warming on the Greenland Ice Sheet, right now and in the future, highlighting the value of climate action

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Reportage

Bed bug panic in Paris – Internet psychosis or actual crisis?

The Internet cultural humor surrounding the bed bugs in Paris grows from the contrast between the glossy, picture-perfect idea of Paris and the reality of living and working in a complex city

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the art field

Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new

Kadyri combines extended reality (AR/VR) and traditional art forms in works exploring the themes of decolonization, displacement, feminism, identity, social invisibility, and migration

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Exhibitions

Want to see the world through Ruth Asawa’s eyes? Start from her drawings

Practice makes perfect: Ruth Asawa’s extensive, lifelong drawing production on paper, the fruit of the artist’s daily drawing practice, Through Line’ Exhibition is now on display at the Whitney Museum

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forestry

From agroforestry to biodiversity: alien species and biological invasion

The impact of invasive alien species on nature’s contribution to people is negative – especially through damage to super food – the IPBES report

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Humanities

Hyper-feminine styles – How is internet culture changing the trend cycle?

Girly pop trend – When it comes to fashion, the internet can act like a liaison, allowing people to voice and find words for their feelings and identities and people to share these with

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the art field

It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable

Dicks, killer rabbits, and giant snails: a look at Medieval humor – from the recent discoveries by Dr. James Wade to @weirdmedievalguys and @medievalmarginalia accounts

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Exhibitions

DIVA – the power of Divas is on display at the V&A museum in London

Someone might have seen the dress Edith Piaf used to wear, or the two-piece ensemble Cher wore at the 1975 Rock Music Awards, before they ever listened to one of their songs

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raw materials

From beans to buildings: recycle coffee grounds to make eco concrete

New research by RMIT engineers published in the Journal of Cleaner Production shows how we could improve concrete by adding an everyday type of waste to it: spent coffee grounds

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crafting

Madelynn De La Rosa’s menu of ceramic sugary treats – a trip in the world of fake cakes

American ceramist and filmmaker Madelynn De La Rosa: the joy of making silly art pieces, and the sources of inspiration behind ‘Maddie Cakes’

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forestry

Archeologia Arborea: a green time capsule preserving almost-lost fruit varieties

Turning back time – Archeologia Arborea preserves the local rural knowledge and history by studying and organically farming local fruit varieties on the brink of extinction

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forestry

The story of an anthropogenic biological invasion – the Ailanthus Altissima

Ubiquitous anywhere from Portugal to Greece, in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, the Ailanthus Altissima is an invasive alien species (IAS) one threatening the local flora

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forestry

Forests: primary forest loss stays at low levels in both Indonesia and Malaysia

Insight from the latest update of the GFR’s Forest Pulse: Indonesia is the top country for the reduction in primary forest loss as of 2022, with a sixty-four percent reduction

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Exhibitions

Solitude and sexual innuendo: Georgia O’Keeffe’s paper drawings

77 years later, the NYC MoMA is hosting its second retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe. Curator Samantha Friedman introduces the Mother of American modernism and her paper works

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Humanities

Hidden waste – 23 million returned and unsold garments sent to landfill or incinerated

From the report it emerged that thirty-six percent of the responders in the Millennials age group (26-41 years old) were classified as high-intensity returners

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naturally sourced

Climate change awareness and weight among the public – an international perspective

A report published ahead of COP27 by Ipsos showed that sixty-five percent of British citizens support subsidies making environmentally friendly technologies cheaper

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naturally sourced

Using beauty and ugliness together – Thirza Schaap’s plastic waste sculptures

Hidden behind the surface – In her photographs, Dutch artist Thirza Schaap uses plastic waste as a material to create sculptures that mix daintiness and disgust

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naturally sourced

Fact-checking: is the use of coal making a comeback? – An international analysis

Expansion of renewables will lead to a decline of twenty-eight percent in the EU power sector’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and in fossil fuel-fired generation from 2023

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Exhibitions

Ordering the chaos – Gina Soden: the layers of our relationship with ruins

Architectural photography – In her photographic love letters to architecture, the British artist Soden captures the beauty of forgotten spaces across Europe

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call to action

Trashion Report – Clothing waste from Europe is harming people and nature in Kenya

Trashion, the stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya – Wealthy countries’ fashion addiction is impacting the Global South through the used clothes trade

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call to action, naturally sourced

What are the health consequences of fossil fuel overreliance?

Since 2015, the average global exposure to urban green space has stayed low: 27% of urban centres were classified as moderately green or more in 2021

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call to action, commitment

Keeping track – how much public money is going towards military expenses in the West?

According to the SIPRI, global military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching an all-time high of $2.1 trillion after seven years of spending growth

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architecture, urbanism

Oslo becoming the world’s first capital with a zero-emissions public transport system

The city of Oslo plans to have a fully-electric public transport network by 2023. The next goal is to become the world’s first emissions-free city by 2030

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call to action, naturally sourced

Recurring water scarcity – its causes, impact, management, and prevention in Europe

The 2019 EEA Indicator Assessment analysis found that agriculture, forestry, and fishing’s water abstraction make up 58.3 percent of the total

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call to action, naturally sourced

COP27 decoded: What precisely happened at the Sharm El Sheikh climate convention?

The push-back on loss and damage and climate action from wealthy nations shows that Global North leaders still don’t recognize their role in the climate crisis

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call to action, Exhibitions

For art’s sake: Courtney Mattison: marine conservation science and sculpting

By creating sculptures representing the anthropogenic issues affecting the ocean, Mattison creates a visual representation of the message of the scientific community

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call to action, forestry

June and July 2022 – climate anomalies, heat waves, and extreme weather events

In the summer of 2022, the planet Earth experienced its sixth warmest June, sixth warmest July, and year to date on record since the global records began in 1880

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call to action

Why is the melting of glaciers making the land rise in Iceland? The land of ice

The Vatnajökull ice cap covers circa eight percent of Iceland’s territory and has lost more than fifteen percent of its volume during the last century

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call to action

Nature’s shield – Deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, pandemics: it’s all linked

Increased contact with different animals and ecosystems has created opportunities for illnesses to be transmitted to humans, and global trade has magnified the scale of the outbreaks

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call to action

Water temperature – seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water

Water is the thermometer of a warming planet Earth: our world is dealing with water scarcity, as our freshwater resources are declining

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call to action

Pollution has reached the highest region on Earth – the garbage crisis in Tibet

Mass tourism, urbanization, and the absence of governance on waste management in rural areas have transformed Tibet, which has been dealing with a garbage crisis

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call to action, naturally sourced

Dirty money – Banking on Climate Chaos 2022: listing the banks that are financing fossil fuel companies

In the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel financing from the world’s sixty largest banks has reached four-point-six trillion USD

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call to action

Droughts, water scarcity and air pollution – how are these issues interconnected?

According to a World Meteorological Organization report, by 2050 more than five billion people will face inadequate access to water at least one month each year

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call to action

Making a city green – Tallinn, the first European capital with free public transport

Since January 1, 2013, after a city-wide free public transit referendum, Tallinn has provided its citizens with free public transport, becoming the first European capital to do so

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call to action

Fossil fuel reduction, energy efficiency improvement, electrification – IPCC WG III AR6

Lifestyles and behavior changes enabled by having the right infrastructure, policies and technology could lead to a sizable reduction of GHG emissions by 2050

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call to action

Extreme weather – the heatwave that impacted Indian and Pakistan in 2022

The impact of climate change on people and the planet – Analysis found that climate change has made the heatwave that hit India and Pakistan thirty times more likely

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call to action

A fair and just transition to renewable energy – The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Phasing out and leaving no one behind – The three pillars of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation treaty are non-proliferation, a fair phase-out, and a just transition

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Blue carbon: nature-based techniques to control the impact of anthropogenic activities

The carbon sequestered in coastal soils can stay trapped for centuries due to the water saturation allowing for a sustained carbon build-up, giving them a role to play in climate change mitigation

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call to action

Global warming: methane emissions jumped to a new record in 2021, while CO2 continued to increase

2021 was the 10th consecutive year that carbon dioxide rose by more than two parts per million, with an increase of two-point-sixty-six ppm over the 2020 average

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call to action

Inequality kills – Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds

Climate change – Twenty of the richest billionaires are estimated, on average, to be emitting as much as 8,000 times more carbon than the billion poorest people

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call to action

The role of pollinators – Keepers of biodiversity, food supply, and more

In January 2022, the UK Government allowed the use of the banned bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide thiamethoxam on sugar beets for the second year running

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call to action

IPCC’s WG2 2022 report – Every fraction of a degree prevented saves lives

Climate change is contributing to humanitarian crises where climate hazards interact with high vulnerability, and it is driving displacement

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blockchain, call to action

Building a renewable powered supply chain – the future of the fashion industry

Textile companies could reduce Scope 3 emissions by using renewable inputs such as solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal. At least, this is what is required from the luxury brands

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naturally sourced

Our thousands of years old glaciers don’t contain water alone, but our history too

Like archives, glaciers store microbiological and viral data that can help scientists to predict our future climate thanks to new knowledge about ancient ecosystems

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