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Climate Change Increases Earthquake Activity
Melting glaciers can destabilize active faults in mountain ranges, amplifying seismic activity by up to five times
Editorial Team•20 December 2024
Climate Change
The Other Side of Overtourism: The…
The carbon intensity of every euro spent on tourism is four times…
Editorial Team•18 December 2024
Climate Change
Insurance costs rise as climate-related damages…
Climate change is having an increasing economic impact, but insurance companies continue…
Editorial Team•13 December 2024
Environment
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…
17 April 2024
Environment
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…
16 April 2024
Environment
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…
15 April 2024
Environment
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…
9 April 2024
Environment
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…
6 April 2024
Environment
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.…
29 March 2024
Environment
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%…
25 March 2024
Environment
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…
22 March 2024
Environment
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…
19 March 2024
Environment
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…
11 March 2024
Environment
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…
10 March 2024
Environment
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…