Brown bears living close to Italian villages have quietly rewritten the usual script of human–wildlife conflict. Over generations, these animals have become smaller, less aggressive and more tolerant ...

Ippo, a young zebra-donkey hybrid, is doing well at an Italian animal preserve. July 25, 2013— -- One part zebra, one part donkey, all parts fuzzy and adorable. Ippo, the foal of a male zebra and ...

EU-funded project hopes to turn picturesque Lucca in Tuscany into Europe's first 'Human-animal smart city' ROME, Dec 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Famed for its renaissance walls and mediaeval ...

A lab at the University of Milan was raided by animal rights activists this past weekend, taking nearly 100 mutated mice (and one rabbit) with them and mixing up cage labels to confuse researchers. It ...

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 ...