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Rinnovabili • Climate Change: New Study Reveals Its Impact on Earthquakes
Climate Change
Climate Change Increases Earthquake Activity

Melting glaciers can destabilize active faults in mountain ranges, amplifying seismic activity by up to five times

Rinnovabili • Tourism Emissions: Growing Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Economy
Climate Change
The Other Side of Overtourism: The…

The carbon intensity of every euro spent on tourism is four times…

Rinnovabili • Insurance Costs: The Role of Climate Change
Climate Change
Insurance costs rise as climate-related damages…

Climate change is having an increasing economic impact, but insurance companies continue…


Rinnovabili • Drought in the Alps
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Drought in the Alps will worsen “substantially” even at +1.6°C

While the climate crisis will not significantly affect the floods caused by the melting of the…

Rinnovabili • Coral bleaching
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Coral bleaching: the 4th global mass death has begun

This is the 4th event in 30 years, the 2nd in the last 10 years. It…

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Arctic permafrost already emits more carbon than it absorbs

It is the result of the first scientific evaluation of the greenhouse gas balance conducted on…

Rinnovabili • Global warming record
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Global warming record also in March: it’s the 10th consecutive month

Copernicus data lengthens the long hot record strip that continues from mid-2023. In Europe March 2024…

Rinnovabili • Global deforestation
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Global deforestation clears 10 football fields per minute in 2023

The factor that continues to drive the loss of tropical forests and not only is the…

Rinnovabili • Climate disasters
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Climate disaster costs to double in 10 years

Damage caused by mega-storms (convective storms), especially those associated with hail, is growing rapidly in Europe.…

Rinnovabili • climate change
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In Europe too, climate change will increase the price of food

Only because of the heat waves of summer 2022, food inflation in Europe grew by 0.67%…

Rinnovabili • excess deaths from heat
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A handful of fossil companies will cause 11.5 million excess deaths from…

The summer of 2022 in Europe claimed more than 60,000 lives due to heat waves. About…

Rinnovabili • climate adaptation
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AI-enabled compass to push investors towards climate adaptation

The tool presented by the non-profit organization Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment Group (GARI) is able…

Rinnovabili • pollution from PFAS
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With this method eliminating pollution from PFAS costs 100 times less

A group of scientists from the University of Rochester have found an economic way to decontaminate…

Rinnovabili • carbon budget
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We have a larger-than-expected carbon budget for 1.5 degrees

Before we pass the two thresholds of the Paris Agreement, we still have 812 GtCO2eq and…

Rinnovabili • Forestry
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Forestry: planting trees is not always good for the climate

Large-scale forestry triggers feedback effects that can cancel up to 1/3 of the climate benefits from…