Publications

The activities in application of the precautionary principle and the prevention of environmental effects The Report describes the activities carried out by ISPRA in the two-year period 2018-2019 in the context of requests for support received from the MATTM regarding the prevention of environmental risk. .

The Edition 2020 of the Municipal Waste Report provides data (reference year 2019) concerning municipal waste generation, separate collection and management at national, regional and provincial level as well as data on import/export of municipal waste. Furthermore, data on packaging waste management, costs of the municipal waste management service and tariff scheme implementation in 2019 are reported.  

The Report provides information on the presence of residues of plant protection products in surface water and groundwater. The 2017-2018 monitoring results are presented in terms of the recovery frequency and concentrations distribution, the levels of contamination obtained by comparison with the environmental quality standards are assessed. The trend of contamination is analyzed and the most critical substances and the phenomenon of poly-exposure are examined. Finally, the regulatory framework is placed in relation to the need to reduce impacts on the environment.

The Report describes the status of the presence of the main allergenic pollens and the Alternaria spore in Italy in 2019 and their air concentration trends, measured, from 2010 to 2019, by the monitoring stations of the POLLnet-SNPA network and by the Aerobiological Monitoring Center of Tor Vergata (Rome).

Working Programme ISPRA/ARPA: Ostreopsis cf. ovata blooms along the Italian coasts

The current legislation on the classification and assessment of the quality status of coastal marine environments (EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60 /EC) identifies the macrozoobenthic communities as indicator (Biological Quality Element) to be used for the classification of the ecological status of these environments.

Environmental Data Yearbook 2019

Environmental Data Yearbook 2019

Environmental Data Yearbook 2019

Environmental Data Yearbook 2019

Environmental Data Yearbook 2019

Year XV

The book "Let's go down to the bottom of the sea - Travelling with a submarine robot ", addressed, above all (but not only), to children was inspired by the desire to tell them, in a simple and nice way, some aspects of the research activity at sea: this is how Pollux, a small underwater robot, was born. Together with his friends Astrea (the research vessel) and EM2040 (the echosounder), Pollux tells about some of the explorations carried out on the beautiful seabed of our "Blue Planet".  

Several mining sites have redesigned the mining landscape from Northern to Southern Italy, they have been transformed, valued and converted into mining parks and museums and are today presented in “A journey to Mining Italy”.  This journey consists in a multifaceted experience spacing from environmental geology to mining landscapes and technologies.