Italy is a great country for nature lovers, providing varied landscapes ranging from the blue waters of the Mediterranean and Adriatic to forests filled with ancient trees, grasslands, and multiple ...

Animal rights activists are winning victories as more countries prohibit animals in circus acts. This month the Italian Parliament adopted legislation to phase out animals in traveling shows and ...

High above the tree line in northern Italy, a wildlife photographer scanning a steep rock face for ibex noticed something ...

Italy is the 41st country to pass a national law prohibiting animals in circuses, affecting an estimated 100 circuses and some 2,000 animals. These achievements are the result of a decade of ...

It has gotten so hot in Italy, even the animals can’t take it. It has gotten so hot in Italy, even the animals can’t take it. The country is in the midst of an early summer of a heat wave, with ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

PESCASEROLLI, Italy — On Sept. 1, 2022, under an almost-full moon, a male wolf slipped into a paddock in the hamlet of Burgdorf-Beinhorn in Germany. He was following the scent of Dolly, a sweet ...

Thanks to the absence of tourists and much-reduced traffic due to Italy's quarantine measures to tackle the recent Coronavirus outbreak, pollution levels drop across many Italian cities and rarely ...