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Thirty million hectares of vegetation burned in Brazil Last year an area covered by vegetation the size of Italy went up in smoke in Brazil, almost eighty percent more than in 2023, while there are currently still numerous fires in the Amazon largely due to ranchers and farmers who want to expand the land suitable for their activities with these illegal practices. These are discouraging data for the Brazilian authorities to present at the COP30 climate conference to be held in November in Belem since the 2024 data represent the largest area lost since 2019, a serious damage to the whole planet; in fact, there is a risk that the Amazon will emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it absorbs. Once vegetation has burned it is difficult to restore an environment that can support an ecosystem in balance with the planet's new climatic characteristics. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 25, 2025 
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 Landslides in Indonesia and wildfires in California Sixteen people would be killed, five missing and several injured in a central area in the province of Java due to landslides caused by intense and prolonged rainfall especially in the Pekalongan, a thick layer of mud hinders the intervention of rescuers; then there is talk of floods, particularly affected the city of Bandar Lampung with fourteen thousand houses submerged affecting over eleven thousand two hundred residents, the global current "La Nina" tends to intensify rainfall in the archipelago (but with climate change hydrogeological risks are increasing). As for California new outbreaks are devouring vegetation forcing the evacuation of more than thirty thousand people in Los Angeles, north of the city, three thousand two hundred hectares of woodland have already gone up in smoke for what has long been considered a disaster of great proportions. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 23, 2025 n°: 5855 Abundant rainfall in the South and in Sardinia in Italy The abundant rainfall that affected Sardinia would have quickly filled the reservoirs that were empty due to a period of prolonged drought, it seems that in some cases they are full beyond the threshold of attention, relief for farmers struggling with water restrictions regarding uses in the fields. In Sicily region the water returns to come out of the taps, but due to a storm damage in Catania in a square on the seafront due to the erosion of the coast (landslide also in stretches of streets in east coast of Sicily). In Abruzzo region the rains have melted the snow and the reservoirs are sometimes so full that it was also necessary to pour water, needless to say that the snow mass would have guaranteed a more durable reserve helping to recharge the aquifers. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 20, 2025 n°: 5852 New eruption of the Ibu volcano in Indonesia For months the Ibu volcano which is located on the remote island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia in the north of the province of Maluku, has been showing signs of intense volcanic activity with columns of volcanic ash emanating from the top of the mountain, hundreds of new evacuation orders have already been sent with thousands soon arriving and evacuation centers have been set up. Recently again in Indonesia there was talk of hundreds of houses flooded in the Riau Islands due to storms and thousands of people generally affected by floods and landslides in the country. Shifting our attention to Los Angeles to report the complaints of some who claim that there are neighborhoods in the burned areas with houses without signs of damage apparently due to the intervention of private firefighters and it seems that there is a village of shops that has remained intact (however the air is still unbreathable even for all the inhabitants of the area). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 17, 2025 n°: 5850 Study on conditions that conducive to fires A particularly dry month of September would have determined the favorable conditions for the disastrous fire to develop in the hills of Los Angeles, at least according to a study that compared the data relating to several large fires; then, despite heavy rainfall in some cases in 2024 the 2025 began with a rather dry situation. Currently the fires are pushing supported by gusts of wind towards the area north of Los Angeles, there is talk of another eighty-four thousand evacuation orders, drinking water unsafe because polluted by toxic substances present in retardants spread by firefighting planes. The air quality is really low considering that the air is saturated with particulate matter and other fine dust from the many burned vehicles (therefore plastics, fuels..) and it is feared that the wind may increase in the coming days. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 15, 2025 n°: 5848 Devastation caused by the Los Angeles fire While the provisional death toll from the devastating fire that affected the hills of Los Angeles has risen to eleven, there is also misinformation about for example the palm trees that inexplicably would not have been burned, but some say that in some cases they are well-kept plants and therefore less attackable by fire because they are very humid and the partially dry ones are burned almost like dry straw. Should plant species of palm trees that do not become hotbeds that trigger real fire fronts, then adapt the water system to the needs of the firefighters; in fact, it seems that the great demand for water has quickly exhausted the reserves making unusable the hydrants, more than twelve thousand buildings burned and entire communities practically razed to the ground, seriously damaged the structures of the well-known Californian media in the city. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 11, 2025 n°: 5845 New fire front in Los Angeles A new impressive fire front is affecting the hills of Los Angeles in California in addition to the other uncontrollable ones that had already burned many homes, there are five victims and one hundred thousand evacuation orders as well as wounded even in serious condition; then some speak of a kind of hurricane of fire that passes from one house to another, fifteen hundred structures damaged or destroyed, many cars burned, entire forests practically gone up in smoke. Authorities announce a state of disaster for what is the second largest city in the United States. As usual there are complaints of extreme conditions caused by climate change, with six months of no rainfall that has dried out a lot of vegetation that had grown rapidly for previous periods interspersed with frequent intense rains and then the fire fuelled recent gusts of wind. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 09, 2025 n°: 5843 Earthquake in remote area of Tibet There would be over one hundred and twenty victims of an earthquake quantifiable of magnitude between 6.8 and 7.1 that shook a remote area of Tibet in Chinese territory at over four thousand meters above sea level in the Everest area on the border with Nepal followed by a strong replication and seismic swarm, there is talk of collapsed houses and damage from an earthquake that seems to have been clearly felt in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu and as far as India. To report changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues four victims in the mid-west of the United States due to a blizzard, declared a state of emergency in seven states, three hundred thousand people without electricity supply, impassable roads and canceled flights; then inconveniences and cars trapped between ice and snow due to the great Arctic cold that partly affected the east coast and in particular Washington. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 07, 2025 n°: 5841 Small amphibians essential for ecosystems Many ecosystems in the world remain vital due to the presence of small amphibians that are often threatened by climate change, for example a devastating pandemic of a fungus (cytridiomycosis) has caused the disappearance of frogs essential to ensure the biodiversity of fragile uncontaminated environments. The researchers argue that frogs that have managed to survive could represent the key to the survival of other species, then making a kind of comparison with Covid-19 for humans it is as if the SARS-CoV-2 virus had a mortality rate of ninety-nine percent. There are solutions to be adopted to safeguard frogs such as small saunas heated by the sun where amphibians can warm up and heal from infection and at the same time become resistant to future attacks of the fungus. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 02, 2025 n°: 5838 Wave of bad weather in Italy Wind gusts uprooted a tree near Rome that overwhelmed two women, one died the other is in serious condition, with controversy about the maintenance of the plants of the park where the tree that had its roots partly cut fell; then there is talk of a fishing boat struggling with high storms it sank with the two fishermen on the Roman coast. In the Marche region the wave of bad weather has caused snowfall even at low altitude with inconvenience, while there is talk of an alert for several regions in the peninsula. Of note changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues that in the French archipelago of the Mayotte lashed recently by the cyclone "Chido" are missing essential good places, then forty percent of the hospital rooms of the capital Mamoudzou is unusable, so it is not known where to hospitalize many people who go for treatment, thirty-five victims of the strong vortex as well as many injured and significant damage. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 24, 2024 n°: 5833 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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