Sardinian farmers suffer worst locust invasion in over 30 years
Milan, ItalyReuters When farmer Rita Tolu saw “a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields” in April, she knew that little of her dried fodder and alfalfa crops would be left in the following days. A swarm of locusts are seen on a field on the island of Sardinia, in […]
Hit by coronavirus and wild weather, Italy now battles locusts
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Swarms of locusts have stripped thousands of hectares of pasture and cropland in Sardinia, devastating farmers already struggling from the coronavirus pandemic, farming groups said. Their numbers fuelled by rising temperatures, the pests have damaged nearly 15,000 hectares of grazing land in the central province of Nuoro, said Michele Arbau, of […]
POSTCARDS: CLOISTERED NUNS ON FACEBOOK – WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE?
JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, of Religion News Service, meets a group of cloistered Italian nuns who have embraced new communications technologies to “understand the language of people today”…