Cristian Giulietti

Secondo i dati Istat, nel 2014 le strutture agrituristiche erano 4% in più rispetto all’anno precedente, mentre la Toscana si conferma la regione con il più alto numero di aziende in Italia, concentrate soprattutto a Siena e Grosseto. Ma le unitá sono diminuite rispetto al picco del 2012, in controtendenza con la crescita nazionale. Alto anche il numero di aziende a conduzione femminile: in Italia una su cinque é toscana.

By Ron Mader via Flickr, Creative Commons

This post was first published on 5th June but some technical issues forced me to republish it today. 



Today, 5th of June, is the World Environment Day, a recurrence established by the United Nations to encourage awareness and action for the environment.

This year's theme of the event is "Seven billion dreams. One planet. Consume with care" and it is not a coincidence that the country hosting the 2015 event also hosts the World Exposition 2015, this year focused on a similar theme.

This Storify gathers the relevant tweets from the recent debate organised by Scidev.net.

The map below shows all the 200 floods occurred all over the World during the last decade. 
Stop the animation clicking on the  button and explore the map on your month and year of interest.

How many floods occurred?
How many hit your country?


The visualisation is based on figures provided by Dartmouth Flood Observatory and shows the constant occurring of floods all around the planet. Some countries are hit more than others though..
Read my previous post on the frequency of floods in Europe and how it is likely to rise in the future.

Get here the data used for the map, with additional information on the severity of the floods. 
The figures cover the period 1990-2014.
Or read the Simon Rogers' tutorial on how to do a animated map using CartoDB and its new feature Torque.

Are some floods missing? Let me know in a comment below...

Between the 14th and 18th of May severe floods and landslides hit the Balkans, claiming 50 lives and causing a level of destruction financially comparable to the 1992-1995 Balkan conflict, as Al Jazeera reported.

Explore some of the information on floods occurred since 1990 in the map by selecting one year in the drop-down menu

This post is about the tool me and my team designed for our HS2 campaign in the "Build the news" event and how we came out with the the Fusion table-to-Twitter map with which we won the "Crowd" category. And, as the title suggests, the combination of tools I used are free and really easy to use.

The tool