Environment

Climate Change

Rinnovabili • Sea level rise: Antarctic melting could push oceans up 2.2 meters
Climate Change
Sea level rise: Antarctic melting could push oceans up 2.2 meters

The latest report from the IPCC estimates that by 2300, global sea levels could rise between 0.5 and 1 meter. But a new climate model, which includes…

Rinnovabili • Climate change Europe: record-breaking heat and drought in 2024
Climate Change
Europe under heat stress: all the…

Around 60% of Europe experienced more days than average with at least…

Rinnovabili • Wildfire insurance: premiums cut by 39% for prevention efforts
Climate Change
A new wildfire insurance model rewards…

On the California insurance market—battered by wildfires that have slashed coverage and…


Rinnovabili • Extreme events
Environment
Extreme events, coupled drought-heat waves will become the norm

Even in a median global warming scenario, compatible with current policies, the frequency of extreme events…

Rinnovabili • predatory niche
Environment
The predatory niche of man exploits 1/3 of the vertebrate species in…

Man has a footprint up to 300 times larger from the taxonomic point of view and…

Rinnovabili • Wildfire in Canada
Pollution
Wildfire in Canada: record emissions in less than 6 months

From January to June the emissions of fires in Canada reached 160 MtCO2eq. In a year,…

Rinnovabili • Primary tropical forest
Environment
Primary tropical forest destruction devours an area as large as Holland

Global Forest Watch data show a markedly worsening situation despite Cop26 promises to stop deforestation by…

Rinnovabili • greenhouse gas emissions
Pollution
Renewable boom does not reduce global greenhouse gas emissions

The photo of the Energy Institute on global energy consumption 2022 shows how the significant increase…

Rinnovabili • Viral diseases
Environment
The return of El Niño prepares more epidemics of dengue, Zika and…

According to WHO, between 2023 and 2024 is high the probability that the higher temperatures triggered…

Rinnovabili • World temperatures
Environment
World temperatures, also June 2023 exceeds the threshold of +1.5°C

EU climate change service Copernicus says early June saw global surface air temperature break all heat…

Rinnovabili • Canada wildfires
Environment
Wildfires in Canada, climate crisis suffocates North America

will be the worst season ever Lack of rain and temperatures over Canada even 8 degrees…

Rinnovabili • Coral disease
Environment
Coral disease will affect 3 out of 4 colonies by 2100

A study by the University of New South Wales analysed over 100 studies produced over the…

Rinnovabili • World Environment Day 2023
Environment
Submerged in plastic, we celebrate World Environment Day 2023

Reducing plastic is the theme of World Environment Day 2023. But the most obvious solutions are…

Rinnovabili • Southern Ocean overturning circulation
Water Management
Southern Ocean overturning circulation: The largest waterfall on the planet is running…

Due to the melting of the South Pole shell, which releases large amounts of fresh and…

Rinnovabili • lightning drought
Environment
In Europe will be lightning droughts boom if we exceed 1.5 degrees

By 2100, the probability of a parcel of land experiencing a lightning drought will rise from…