WASTELAND is an artwork consisting of a system of concrete actions unfolding through time and various locations in order to disseminate on the international scene a series of “clues” about the existence of a nation of my invention, called Garbage Patch State. More information on The Garbace Patch State, and on the personal website of the artist Maria Cristina Finucci
![Basilica Giulia, Rome, 2018 [render]. Photo courtesy of Maria Cristina Finucci The latest artwork of Maria Cristina Finucci, titled "HELP the Ocean", has been unveiled on June 8, 2018, World Oceans Day, at the Basilica Giulia in Rome. Composed by a set of gabions in wire mesh, covered with an embroidery of six million colored plastic caps, "HELP the Ocean" wants to simulate a archaeological discovery that could be emblematic of our era, renamed as the "The age of Plastic". The exhibition of "HELP the Ocean" in Rome is open from June 8 until July 29, 2018.](https://files.climateforesight.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/24200308/Help_the_ocean_render_png.png)
What are the main trajectories of plastics at sea? Where do plastics come from, and where do they accumulate? A research realized in the framework of AMAre project and lead by CMCC researcher Svitlana Liubartseva identified the transport and fate of plastic marine debris in the Mediterranean Sea with the aim to find solutions to this key issue.
The year without a summer showed the world how volcanoes can affect climate with severe consequences on human societies and economies. Today – while climate deniers use eruptions as a tool with which to cloud the truth about anthropogenic causes of climate change – volcanoes remain important monitors of “our impacts on the climate (which) are so large they even have the potential to affect volcanic eruptions themselves”.
A team of scientists analyses the interaction between heterogeneous expectations, investment decisions and climate mitigation policymaking, examining how firms invest in low versus high carbon capital based on their beliefs about future carbon prices.
