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Italy in the grip of heat and drought Temperatures in all twenty-seven monitored cities used to determine the heat risk threshold are at red alert levels, in some cases there are even spikes approaching forty degrees Celsius due to the fourth African heatwave, but the perceived temperature can be higher as happened yesterday in Rome where a well-known religious celebration was not held outdoors in the square because of thirty-eight degrees Celsius with a perceived temperature of around forty-two degrees. Tropical nights bring significant discomfort and poor sleep hygiene and not enabling the body from recovering energy. Severe drought in Piedmont has led to a state of emergency also due to fires, with the Po River and almost all watercourses running dry, causing distress to crops, especially rice. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 06, 2026 
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 Young Australians use social networks despite bans Apparently over eighty percent of young people in Australia who were banned from using social networks still manage to access their accounts claiming that there are no controls or that there are ways to bypass the restrictions. Maybe as some suggest the problem often lies in the bad example of parents who generally spend long periods of time on these questionable social network apps that have psychological reward-like mechanisms making their use appealing. To report changing the topic but still sticking to tech themes the news about a piece of space debris that is about to fall on the Moon; from an ecological point of view it’s a bad example of how humans could pollute other planets. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 05, 2026 
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Fires in the state of Washington in the U.S. From aerial views it appears that between seven hundred and eleven hundred structures were burned and reduced to ashes by the flames in Spokane in the state of Washington in the northwest United States, it's being called the worst natural disaster in what is the second-largest city in this state with sixty-five thousand people forced to leave their homes. Firefighters have made some progress in tackling the fires fueled by drought, extreme heat and strong winds; basically there were three fire fronts that merged into a single front burning over three thousand two hundred hectares in the Spokane area. Authorities had already declared a state of emergency in recent days with the first fires given the really unfavorable conditions with four consecutive years of drought, unusually high temperatures and strong gusts of wind; then the winter in the state had been on average very warm with record values. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 04, 2026 
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Thoughts on uncontrollable fires Due to climate change fires are becoming increasingly uncontrollable and some wonder if this is becoming an unhealthy normality, for example there are talks about fires that fuel themselves through a phenomenon like the so-called pyrocumulonimbus eruptions, which are like clouds with scorching vortices and large amounts of water vapor that rise into the atmosphere, generated by the fires themselves, which then collapse bringing ash and burning debris to the ground along with gusts of wind that spread the fires in all directions. Even a small fire can cause a disaster, so the territory should be monitored (with personnel trained to extinguish the first outbreaks, cameras, drones..) to intervene in the early stages. To report recently that there were two victims in Greece due to the collision of two firefighting helicopters west of Athens. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 03, 2026
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Earthquake at Phlegraean Fields and low level of Po river A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Phlegraean Fields near Naples as often happens in this area linked to the bradyseism phenomenon, there are reports of dozens of injured some seriously along with partial collapses in buildings, tufa cliff falls, evacuations of homes, damage to the docks of the Port of Pozzuoli and suspension of local train services. As for the Po River previous records for low water levels have been broken and the situation is alarming also due to the intrusion of the sea's salt wedge from the mouth with the salt seeping into the soil and causing crops to wither; among the causes of the low level are also the high temperatures during the period due to an African heatwave with peaks approaching forty degrees Celsius, there are many heat alerts in cities across Italy, generally causing an unhealthy sense of discomfort. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 01, 2026
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Consequences of fifty thousand mirrors in orbit in space The proposal to approve a U.S. project to launch with rockets and put fifty thousand mirrors into orbit by 2035 to provide on-demand energy services (a sort of reflected sun with a mirror-facing size toward the earth of about five kilometers) has caused dissent among some astronomers who argue that this decision could have definitely negative consequences. For example there are concerns about risks for species used to a naturally dark night sky, potential damage to sensitive telescope equipment and astronomical research, blinding flashes for airplane pilots and drivers, possible permanent retinal damage for those using medium-sized telescopes to observe the stars; plus space is already polluted with an excessive number of satellites and debris that increase year after year. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 31, 2026
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Uncontrolled fires in Greece and drought in Great Britain Fires in Greece are reported to have caused three deaths (firefighters trapped by the flames), with the island of Crete in the Rethymno region particularly affected, then there have also been evacuations by sea due to numerous other outbreaks on different islands, villages hit by fires with houses burned, high columns of smoke rising from the fires spreading over long distances and inevitably causing trouble for the population. As for Great Britain there’s talk of a pronounced drought with rainfall levels really far below the average for this time of year, with a high risk of fires, the famous English lawns are parched and there are water restrictions like in London where garden watering is banned, some areas such as the prehistoric site of Stonehenge are scorched by the heat. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 30, 2026
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Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture in Japan There are reportedly at least eighteen victims and around a hundred injured in the city of Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu in southwest Japan due to a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that partially collapsed a shopping center and affected other buildings. Rescuers are still trying to save people who may still be trapped under the rubble, then there are reports of power outages affecting thousands of homes, damaged roads, gas leaks and evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of people as a precaution against possible aftershocks. To report on a different note but still on natural issues that firefighters in Spain and France are ramping up efforts to contain the fire fronts due to the arrival of yet another heatwave that could fuel the wildfires. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 29, 2026
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Important primary fire prevention With climate change vegetation tends to be drier and more susceptible to any potential fire and flames then spread faster in the areas affected by the fires than in the past often with winds generated by the flames themselves as scorching whirlwinds, so primary prevention is really important. For example it’s a good to remove grass, vegetation, branches and dry brush that can fuel flames, then get rid of any kind of hydrocarbon and fuel storage near buildings; needless to say everything needs to be under control the areas where intervention is needed should be easily accessible and firefighters should be equipped with proper vehicles (with climate change by now bigger firefighting planes are needed, as well as helicopters, water trucks etc.). Firebreak paths in the vegetation should be planned well in advance and be very wide. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 28, 2026 
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Fires in France and Spain are worrying The Gironde fire is dangerously approaching Bordeaux in southwestern France that has burned over forty thousand hectares of vegetation and forced the evacuation of about two hundred and twenty thousand people in addition to making roads unusable and causing significant disruptions for tourists, for example in recent days the well-known Cap Ferret peninsula on the Atlantic coast was completely evacuated even by sea. In Spain there are several outbreaks with around seventy-five thousand evacuated people and has caused also a fatality, the fire in Avila region is particularly concerning being considered one of the worst in the country's recent history; there’s controversy over a plan to renew firefighting aircraft proposed in 2022 but never implemented. To report shifting focus to Italy fires in the Gargano area near beaches between Molise and Puglia regions, seemingly arson with the evacuation of tourists from campsites. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 27, 2026
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