Simone Fant

Simone Fant is an Italian multimedia journalist focused on climate and environmental issues and their intersection with human rights. His work has appeared in leading national and international outlets, including Il Post, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Mongabay, EUobserver, among others. A three-time grantee of Journalismfund.eu for cross-border investigative reporting projects, he has coordinated multidisciplinary teams of journalists and photographers on in-depth, long-term investigations. In 2022, he was awarded the Fenice CONAI Prize for Young Environmental Journalism, followed by the CoReVe Award (Online Category) in 2023.

Ukraine: all lithium reserves and mineral resources in war zones

Geologists call it the Ukrainian shield. That land in the middle which starts from the northern border with Belarus up to the shores of the Azov Sea, in the south of Donbass. According to the studie...

The world is craving lithium, and geothermal could relieve it. But at what impact?

Cesano is a small town located in the volcanic region of the Sibillini mountains, near Rome. In 1975 Enel discovered a geothermal fluid in the roots of this land that is particularly interesting for...

Recycling Covid masks: here are those who attempt it around the world

Sanitary masks have been keeping us company for almost two years now. Every day we buy them, we wear them to protect us from the virus, and finally we throw them away when they exhaust their functio...

Rockwool: Circular and Fireproof Insulation

The construction sector, also thanks to recent regulatory provisions, is decisively directing its efforts toward circularity. Rockwool products can provide an important contribution and they also im...

Predictive maintenance: predicting the future while saving resources

An error, a failure, a sudden malfunction. Imagining the unexpected is the goal of the predictive maintenance system that provides manufacturing companies with a prediction of a future failure of ph...