I am a multimedia journalist and documentary maker with long experience in the organization of events, currently working as freelance and covering mostly science, the environment, travel, food, lifestyle, design, human rights, and development. I worked in Burma, Lao PDR, Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia, UK, Germany, France, and Italy, and my stories have been published by The Guardian, Mongabay, Pacific Standard, SciDev.Net, GQ Italy, Vanity Fair Italy, Radio Radicale and La Stampa among others.
I am a United Nations Foundation Press Fellow and have been shortlisted for best newcomer in Association of British Science Writers' British Science Writing Awards for Britain and Ireland 2015, the 'Oscars' of science journalism.
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A coalition of environmental analysts has a practical plan to end deforestation in the Amazon, and to boost agribusiness production and profit across the region. It starts by everyone sitting down at a table.
The $1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative promises new ports, roads, railways, dams and an energy grid reaching from China across Asia to Africa, but at what environmental cost?
Science, the environment, human rights and development
Who doesn't like a luxury resort and 18-hole golf course set atop a sheer cliff with breathtaking views of the Indian Ocean? Revered Hindu Gods that inhabit the temple nearby, according to the local Balinese concerned over plans to open the Trump International Hotel & Tower Bali.
At first glance Cameroon's western regions seem lush, but a closer look shows a land degraded by overgrazing, unsustainable cropping practices, deforestation of vegetation for firewood, and uncontrolled bush fires....
If passed by Congress, the bill will benefit the economy, recreational fishermen say, but environmentalists fear it could destabilize and even crash ocean fisheries.
Tamim Chalati remembers an Aleppo where you could get pizza at 3am. "I had a good salary and social life," the scientist says, recalling how he used to take his two children out for "hot and crispy barbecue food", their favourite, several times a week.
It takes less than 20 milligrams of rhino horn to prosecute poachers. This is all scientists need to discover a rhinoceros' unique DNA pattern, a sort of genetic fingerprint investigators can use to link criminals involved in poaching and trading of rhino horn to individual mutilated or killed rhinos.
Great apes need intact, safe habitat to thrive. But deforestation and hunting have imperiled that safety, with four out of six species now Critically Endangered, including Eastern and Western gorillas, and Bornean and Sumatran orangutans; with the remaining two species, chimpanzees and bonobos, already Endangered.
Travel, food, design and lifestyle
The hot Thai sun is beating down on the rooftop of the Hotel Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square, in downtown Bangkok. There, a few dozen white barrels line the edges of the rooftop; inside, a bright green jam is bubbling in the heat.
di Giovanni Ortolani A metà degli anni 60 in Italia un gruppo di studenti di arte, architettura e design accese la miccia di rivoluzione che ha avuto un impatto profondo in tutto il mondo: il Radical design Un approccio alla progettazione che ha raccolto l'insegnamento di futurismo, pop-art e surrealismo e rifiutando ogni dogma ha creato oggetti e mobili dissacranti ed enigmatici che sono entrati nella storia, come il divano Bocca, con le sue labbra rosse, o l'appendiabiti Cactus.
Non ci vanno in molti, ma chi ci è stato non lo scorda più. Un viaggio che porta dritti nel cuore dell'Asia più vera e che riserva sorprese: dai locali di Luang Prabang al relax negli ecolodge fluviali
di Giovanni Ortolani Nella Düsseldorf degli anni '70 quattro ragazzi formarono un gruppo che avrebbe scardinato il rapporto tra musica, uomo e macchina: i Kraftwerk. Wolfgang Flür, inventore insieme a Florian Schneider della prima batteria elettronica, era il cuore pulsante della sezione ritmica della band.
Avete scelto la meta? Ecco qualche classico e qualche extra (su un'amaca in spiaggia) da non perdere per indirizzare al meglio la vostra strada
A Londra un palazzo di quattro piani nel cuore di Notting Hill dedicato al liquore
Documentary, video and podcast
A short observational documentary with a sci-fi twist about the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Italian with English Subtitles. Da quando, nel '62, una giunta militare si è impadronita del potere, la libertà di espressione in Birmania non è stata più garantita. Per questo motivo, nel '92, un gruppo di giornalisti ha fondato in Norvegia una tv la Democratic Voice of Burma, che ancora oggi non può trasmettere dalla Birmania.
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Roberto Bertollini, chief scientist of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and WHO representative at the European Union, talks to SciDev.Net about the organisation's strategy to control Ebola, the media 's role in this and the risks that other African countries and Europe face.
Video by Giovanni Ortolani for Ruptly agency
Il gioco d'azzardo è un passatempo che può trasformarsi in una malattia: la ludopatia.