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Protection of marine biodiversity in the high seas After the adhesion of Morocco and Sierra Leone, it has been possible to reach the threshold of sixty ratifications of a treaty that provides for the protection of marine biodiversity in the high seas and is expected to become law in 2026. According to environmentalists achieving these protection goals for biodiversity areas in oceans around the world going beyond the exclusive economic zones as defined by various countries is crucial for the safeguarding of marine ecosystems. It is estimated that half of the world's oxygen is produced by the oceans and is therefore essential for facing climate change thanks to an ecosystem made up of aquatic plants and marine creatures threatened by pollution, overfishing, and mineral resources on the seabed. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Set 20, 2025 
n°: 6058
 New estimates on recent heat victims in Europe The high temperatures during the summer, with a series of heatwaves from Italy to Germany and France, where temperatures exceeded forty-six degrees Celsius in Spain and Portugal, may have caused sixteen thousand five hundred victims in Europe; researchers who focused on over eight hundred and fifty urban areas recorded temperatures 3.6 degrees higher from June to August due to climate change, but this represents only a third of the population so the death toll is certainly higher. With the heat the heart struggles to pump blood and the elderly sweat less with reduced ability to regulate their temperature; other studies estimate more than sixty thousand total deaths in 2022 and forty-seven thousand in 2023, emphasizing how Europe has become an example of the extreme effects of climate change with significant consequences on activities and especially in the tourist sector. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 19, 2025
n°: 6057
Doubts about the impact of red fire retardants Using red retardants from planes by spreading them over fires is considered a crucial strategy to fight fires, but some raise doubts about their real impact on the environment, especially concerning aquatic ecosystems; in fact, their exact chemical composition is not known although they effectively work by depriving oxygen that fuels the flames. Once spread their red liquid covers everything with a reddish haze, ground, trees, roofs, and if it reaches streams and rivers, the water turns red; it is generally thought that they may be safe for people and the environment even though there are not many studies on the subject, but for example there are restrictions on their use near waterways because they contain ammonia and phosphates that can be harmful to the aquatic ecosystem, affecting fish and amphibians, and algae can proliferate. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 18, 2025 
n°: 6056
Vaccinations in Congo to tackle an Ebola outbreak In the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo vaccinations have begun for workers and individuals at higher risk to confront an Ebola outbreak that has caused at least sixteen deaths, with at least sixty-eight suspected cases; however the doses are scarce and funding is limited and international health organizations warn that the intervention is weak while the country is facing the dangerous virus for the sixteenth time. It is reported that only four hundred doses have been administered, with additional doses to be distributed later (two thousand may be found in the country and forty-five thousand will be provided then by an international coordinating group), but operations have been hindered by limited access and scarce available funds. Another issue is the conflicts especially in the eastern areas of the country which have damaged the healthcare system. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 17, 2025 
n°: 6055
The ozone hole may shrink in the coming decades The ozone hole over Antarctica could decrease to the point of disappearing in the coming decades, demonstrating that international action regarding the important protective layer of the Earth is achieving its goals; in fact in 2024 the hole was smaller than in recent years. In 1975 a convention was followed by the Montreal Protocol which allowed for the banning of harmful gases to the ozone layer mainly found in household refrigeration, air conditioning, and aerosol sprays. To report changing the subject but still on natural topics that the Amazon rainforest has reduced by an area the size of Spain in about forty years perhaps approaching a point of no return, as the rain cycle is disrupted and a dry savanna is growing instead of forest. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 16, 2025
n°: 6054
Study on emissions from oil and cement industries The extreme effects of many heat waves could be directly linked to emissions from oil, coal, and cement industries; at least according to a study that highlights how a quarter of the more than two hundred heat waves that have occurred during this century would have been impossible without anthropogenic warming. It is estimated that the exploitation of fossil fuels by one hundred eighty major global polluters has contributed to about half of the increase in the intensity of heat waves since pre-industrial times. In areas of the Global South such as Africa and Latin America many heat waves are not recorded and are absent from the archives used for calculations, so the study results are likely underestimated and the real scale and consequences of these events are greater. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 15, 2025
n°: 6053
Severe drought in Atlantic regions of Canada The map of the water situation in many Atlantic regions of Canada provided by Canadian authorities shows areas where drought reaches extreme values, particularly affecting almost the entire province of Prince Edward Island, while in parts of Labrador conditions are said to be normal; but again for areas of Newfoundland values range from abnormal drought to extreme, especially in parts of the Avalon Peninsula affected by wildfires during the summer, then New Brunswick and Nova Scotia from moderate to severe. In the Annapolis Valley some areas suffered through the worst August in terms of rainfall with a record low of less than fifteen millimeters, followed by drought for Charlottetown and Saint John. Bans on lighting fires, access to land, and measures to save and appropriately manage water reserves have been issued. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Set 13, 2025
n°: 6052
Sea rise threatens many Philippine islands It could reach thirteen millimeters of sea rise each year, at least according to calculations made by a department on environmental resources which underscores how in the Philippines sea rise is occurring at a rate three times higher than the global average. The seven-hectare island of Manila Bay is already running out of land and risks being completely submerged, then there is also the problem that the land tends to sink as happens along the coasts of Bulacan due to the phenomenon of subsidence and the lives of the people who live there have changed radically. To report changing the subject but remaining on natural issues that has risen to nineteen the death toll in Bali and East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia due to torrential rainfall and subsequent flooding, with five people reported missing and five hundred evacuated. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 12, 2025
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Floods on the island of Bali in Indonesia There would be at least nine victims this week on the island of Bali in Indonesia with about six hundred people affected by intense rainfall lasting for days, it seems that major street reportedly inaccessible in the capital Denpasar and famous tourist locations difficult to reach. Two hundred people have been evacuated and accommodated in schools and religious facilities, then hardships for the population forced to move through water, not to mention the goods in flooded businesses. Four victims have also been reported in East Nusa Tenggara due to the heavy rains and subsequent flooding. To report changing the subject but staying on natural topics that it is estimated that wildfires in Canada have caused five thousand four hundred deaths worldwide due to related causes (the mortality rate varies depending on the calculation method used) and about eighty-two thousand premature deaths. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 11, 2025
n°: 6050
Severe drought in southeastern Europe in August Armenia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Kosovo faced a severe drought in mid-August, at least according to satellite data that highlighted the extreme phenomenon across almost all the soil; then fifty-two percent of Europe experienced drought, more during this period than in any year since recording began in 2012. On the Atlantic coast over three-quarters of Portugal have been affected by drought (a country that also suffered from devastating fires) and rainfall has been scarce for about seventy percent of France. To report changing the subject but remaining on natural themes the floods on the island of Elba due to a cloudburst; this is the third time in a year that torrents of water have flooded Portoferraio causing inundations, then there was severe bad weather in various areas of Tuscany and Lazio region. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 10, 2025
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