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Flooding in New South Wales in Australia Authorities have declared a natural disaster due to flooding in New South Wales, with one reported fatality and three missing; nearly fifty thousand people have been forced to evacuate their homes, and helicopters have occasionally had to intervene to rescue individuals who took refuge on rooftops. Areas of the Mid North Coast and Hunter particularly affected by heavy rainfall remain isolated in what is generally considered a rather violent extreme weather event. Shifting the focus to Italy there have been recent storm damages in Finale Ligure in the province of Savona in Liguria region along with further weather alerts; there is also concern for threatened biodiversity as for example the orchid called the venus slipper has almost completely disappeared and the situation is not very bright for other orchids. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 22, 2025 
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 Still problems with tornadoes in the U.S. More tornadoes follow those that affected Kansas, Texas, Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia, causing over twenty deaths in four days, striking vast areas of the central United States, and weather forecasts anticipate the possibility of more violent vortices (possibly in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee); then the damage tally began in places like St. Louis where it is estimated that five thousand buildings have been severely damaged with evacuated families needing to find shelter, while in Kansas and Texas the damage from the earlier tornadoes is still being assessed. Some are speaking in some cases of an unprecedented storm that has left for example a trail of devastating destruction for over twelve kilometers at the passage of the strong vortices and with the current trend towards further global warming the damage can only increase significantly. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 20, 2024 n: 5953 Fires and extreme heat in Manitoba in Canada Fires out of control are burning vegetation in the eastern areas of Manitoba in Canada, there are reports of two victims in a rural municipality near Lac Du Bonnet, and a state of emergency has been declared in Whiteshell Provincial Park, where evacuation orders have also been issued. Authorities in Alberta are proposing to send aid to firefighting teams that are already trying to combat the flames. Temperatures monitored in southern Manitoba and Winnipeg have recently set record highs (some report over thirty-five Celsius degrees) with warnings for the population to take precautions against heat strokes, headaches, malaise, nausea, confusion, and fatigue; generally people are not yet prepared to endure such high temperature spikes in these months, unlike in summer. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 17, 2025 n: 5951 Yet another earthquake at the Campi Flegrei near Naples An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 was recorded at the Campi Flegrei with an epicenter between Pozzuoli and Bacoli near Naples, linked to the phenomenon of bradisism. As usual there are inconveniences for the affected population, with subways and funiculars closed for precaution and some activities suspended; there are discussions about requesting a state of emergency for the Campi Flegrei area in order to expedite rescue procedures in the event of significant seismic events. There is no magma rising from the magma chamber, only high-pressure gases that pressing on the surface rock layers fracture them to find a way out causing earthquakes and seismic swarms in what has been an active volcanic field for about eighty thousand years with alternating phases of activity and lately twenty years of bradisism. Possible the phreatic explosions but not particularly concerning due to contact between very hot fluid and aquifers. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 14, 2025 n: 5948 Methane emissions into the atmosphere are too high Although there are technologies to monitor and reduce methane leaks during extraction phases especially in the hydrocarbon exploitation sector losses remain too high, at least according to a report by international energy agencies. The concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere (eighty times more powerful than CO2, even though it lasts for about a decade) has more than doubled in the last two centuries, mainly due to human activities. It is estimated that until 2019 methane emissions from fossil fuel exploitation could be quantified at about one hundred and twenty million tons; then they peaked and do not seem to be decreasing. Some say that addressing this factor is of great importance, but countries generally do little to reduce these losses. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 12, 2025 n: 5946 Anchoring boats harmful to posidonia Posidonia meadows in the sea can absorb over thirty-five times carbon dioxide compared to tropical forests, making them an ally in efforts to limit the impacts of climate change or potentially one of the solutions; moreover, the health of the sea and consequently fishing depends on these underwater plants, which are also habitats for over three hundred species of algae and more than a thousand species of marine animals. It is estimated that the extent of posidonia meadows in the Mediterranean has already decreased by at least thirty-four percent, mainly due to unregulated boat anchoring, along with truly destructive fishing practices on the seabed and intensive aquaculture practices conducted near these posidonia meadows that constitute an entire ecosystem, the loss of which would release a large amount of CO2 that has been stored for centuries. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 10, 2025 n: 5945 Average very hot month of April The warming monitored on the planet extends month after month with the average temperatures of the month of April close to the records recorded, this raises the question of how much the world is warming far beyond the forecasts made in the past; in fact, taking into account the role played by global currents that help keep temperatures in balance, these peaks should not have been reached in these periods. Everyone points the finger at the excessive use of fossil fuels to power human activities that have caused a climate change judged exceptional and the hottest in one hundred and twenty-five thousand years. It should be noted, changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues, that yesterday in Greece in the Falassarna weather station thirty-three Celsius degrees were exceeded; while in Italy a cold air front has caused temperatures to drop, damage to crops in Piedmont region. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 08, 2025 n: 5943 High temperatures in Greece with sand from Africa After rather cold days at the end of April, days of almost summer heat are taking place in Greece with temperatures that have even exceeded thirty degrees Celsius and according to the weather forecast in addition to the heat there will also be fine sand and dust from Africa and then perhaps a colder source is approaching. Athenians and tourists filled the beaches and several areas with abnormal temperatures such as the more than thirty-two degrees in Karditsa, thirty-two in Farsala and thirty-one in Larissa, Psachna and Evia also linked to a heat wave. It should be noted, changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues, that recently in Southern Iraq there have been breathing difficulties for about two thousand seven hundred people who have required hospitalization in many cases due to storms of fine sand and dust coming partly from Arabia. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 05, 2025 n: 5940 Warming in north of Finland, Norway and Sweden Climate change would have significantly overheated Lapland (or northern Fennoscandia), a region located north of Finland, Norway and Sweden, so much so that temperatures in the summer of 2024 would have been the highest in two thousand years, at least according to data monitored by the Finnish Meteorological Institute also obtained from direct observations from data recorded since the late 1800s, and from indirect data and data relating to the growth of tree rings. Compared to other parts of the world the Arctic regions are warming at a rate four times faster since 1979 and it is a very sensitive ecosystem and we are talking about an irreversible impact since climate change is extending beyond the normal level of tolerance with heat waves occurring more and more frequently. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 30, 2025 n: 5937 Adaptation of gardens to climate change More and more often those who have a garden have to cope with heat waves, then cold, gusts of wind, cloudbursts and hailstorms so much so that some say that climate change is changing the traditional garden and that it can no longer be the same as what we were used to having; in fact, many plants do not adapt to extreme climatic events or you have to choose more resistant varieties. Plants and flowers are not only pleasant for humans by giving scents and colors that give well-being, but they are also important for pollinating insects as well as being a source of nourishment for all that varied ecosystem that lives in a garden. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic themes a vast fire in New Jersey in the United States probably the largest in about twenty years, over four thousand six hundred hectares of vegetation would have gone up in smoke. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 26, 2025 n: 5934 Ambience and Nature * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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