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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 • Water scarcity
Environment
Fertilizers and manure will leave 3 billion people without water more than…

The forecasts for water scarcity in 2050 triple if account is taken not only of the…

Rinnovabili • Samarco dam disaster
Environment
Brazil: New $10 billion fine for 2015 Samarco dam disaster

The collapse of the dam nine years ago spilled 43 million of toxic sludge downstream that…

Rinnovabili • Absorbing and storing CO2
Environment
Absorbing and storing CO2: global warming takes your breath away

When the average temperature exceeds 20 ºC, the trees begin to accelerate the process of photorespiration…

Rinnovabili • fossil industry
Pollution
The fossil industry has known about global warming at least since 1954

Found unpublished documents proving that the American fossil industry was aware of the impact on the…

Rinnovabili • target 1.5°C
Environment
Keeping the target 1.5°C possible? Need 11 TW renewable by 2030

The current decade is crucial to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 ºC, but investment in…

Rinnovabili • fighting the climate crisis
Environment
5 good reasons to be optimistic about fighting the climate crisis

Awareness about climate change penetrated into public discourse. The boom of zero net targets and the…

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Environment
All global warming forecasts in 2024

According to the Met Office, 2024 could close with +1.58°C strong global warming. Niño influence will…

Rinnovabili • record of ocean temperature
Environment
In 2023 new record of ocean temperature. And the Mediterranean is the…

Between 8 and 15 ZettaJoule more energy than in 2022. It is the amount of additional…

Rinnovabili • Bluenzyme
Environment
Synthetic bio-fixation of CO2, a new milestone

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a synthetic pathway that can capture CO2 from…

Rinnovabili • Ecosystem services
Environment
Ecosystem services: the climate crisis will reduce them by 9.2% by 2100

Calculating only the changes in the benefits provided by terrestrial ecosystems due to climate change, a…

Rinnovabili • Carbon storage
Environment
Carbon storage in the oceans, +20% thanks to “sea snow”

A French CNR study published in Nature recalculates the role of plankton in transporting carbon from…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Environment
All global warming records in the Arctic in 2023

Summer 2023 (July-September) has been the hottest since 1900, while all other seasons have grazed record…