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Windstorm in Pakistan after heatwave There would be at least fourteen victims and over a hundred injured due to a windstorm that swept across Pakistan, particularly affecting the provinces in eastern Punjab and northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and the capital Islamabad has also been impacted with uprooted trees and fallen power line poles. Reports speak of intense heat with temperatures exceeding forty-five degrees Celsius that would have favored the conditions for the formation of such a violent windstorm, while weather forecasts announce possible further storms. It is noteworthy that shifting attention to other scenarios a record heat has been reached in the United Arab Emirates for the month of May with temperatures exceeding fifty-one degrees Celsius and Egypt is facing a food and water crisis with difficulties in sustaining a population of one hundred and thirteen million inhabitants. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 26, 2025 
n°: 5958
 Active hurricane season in Canada According to weather forecasts Canada could soon be affected by potential hurricanes although it is difficult to predict when these vortices will form over the ocean, however it is an active year and post-tropical storms are pushing further north so it is advisable to be prepared to face the ensuing bad weather. Meanwhile also in this country in Manitoba the community of Lac Du Bonnett is lamenting the devastation caused by a recent fire, with the area appearing unrecognizable completely covered in charred debris. Notably shifting attention to China there are two victims and nineteen people trapped due to a landslide that occurred in a rural area near Quingyang in the southwest province of Guizhou; there are also reports of power outages in the township of Guowa again due to the landslide. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 24, 2025 
n°: 5957
Records losses in areas covered by tropical forests It is estimated that in 2024 trees equivalent to a figurative calculation of about eighteen football fields covered by tropical forests were lost every minute, obviously a huge area of six million seven hundred thousand hectares (about the size of Panama), with a record eighty percent higher than in 2023. The country at the top of this unhealthy ranking of forest loss is Brazil, a country that will host the next environmental change conference in November, facing problems dealing with fires in the Amazon affected by the worst drought ever recorded in the rainforest. A naturally humid ecosystem hardly burns and for the first time apparently fires are the leading cause of tropical forest loss; therefore it is necessary to plan interventions differently to adapt to the new environmental reality. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 23, 2025
n°: 5956
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
n°: 5955
A kind of avalanche of water in southeastern France At least three victims would be due to the storm that affected the southeast of France, reports from the affected areas describe a scene of significant destruction with vehicles swept away by rivers of water, mud, and debris. Over five hundred passengers of a high-speed train were forced in the middle of the night to exit the carriages. Some spoke of a kind of water avalanche caused by a violent and incomprehensible phenomenon that was self-sustaining, leading to interruptions in the supply of electricity, drinking water, and stalled sewage treatment facilities. Among the most affected locations are Vidauban and Tonneins, and to assist those in difficulty dozens of rescuers and volunteers have intervened; many houses have been flooded; rail traffic will remain suspended for several days between Agen and Marmande (with repercussions on Bordeaux and Toulouse) in the southwest of the country. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 21, 2024
n°: 5954
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
A storm lashes areas of the Midwest and South U.S. There are at least twenty-seven reported fatalities, most in Kentucky and particularly in Laurel County, due to a storm characterized by tornadoes that have destroyed homes and overturned vehicles, leaving a trail of destruction and debris; there are also reports of ten people hospitalized in serious condition. Parts of about twenty roads have been closed, and it may take days before some of them can be reopened, and there are fears that the death toll may rise, with hundreds of homes damaged (significant damage also in Missouri). Changing the subject but still on environmental issues there are concerns about environmental pollution and land exploitation in Guyana due to the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits that could make this country the so-called "Dubai of the Caribbean", considering that eighty-five percent of the territory is covered by rainforest. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 19, 2025
n°: 5952
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
Floods in Maryland in the United States Due to intense rainfall and downpours the roads in western Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania have turned into rivers and Maryland authorities have declared a state of emergency in response to what are considered historic floods. There is talk of one victim (a boy in Virginia) and dozens of people forced to leave their flood-affected homes, then two schools were evacuated with rescue teams intervening to help the students; the counties of Allegany and Garrett in Maryland were particularly hard hit by the flooding. Shifting attention to Italy to report that there has been a wave of bad weather affecting Sicily, characterized by heavy rains and strong winds in some areas of the region, making travel difficult at times due to flooded roads and complicating connections with the islands due to rough seas, along with discomfort for the local population. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 16, 2025
n°: 5950
Dengue and Chikungunya may soon be endemic in Europe Due to the rise in average temperatures the tiger mosquito that transmits the dengue and chikungunya viruses is reproducing increasingly further north and soon these diseases could become endemic in Europe, considering that nearly half of the global population is already at risk of contracting them, even though they were once typical diseases almost exclusively of tropical regions. In rare cases the fevers carried by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes can be fatal; however regarding Dengue some have defined it as the so-called breakbone fever because of the pains that patients sometimes experience in their bones. There are concerns that due to the growing tropicalization of European territories the Zika and West Nile viruses could also spread in the future (research is being conducted in these sectors) also carried by tiger mosquitoes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 15, 2025 
n°: 5949
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