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Severe weather warning in Spain After the disastrous flood in the region of Valencia due to storm "Dana" (due to the so-called cold drop phenomenon) which caused over two hundred and twenty-four victims and twenty-eight missing two weeks ago, there is talk of a new weather alert and in particular Andalusia and the Balearic Islands could be affected; then some Spanish authorities declared during the COP29 conference that is being held in Baku in Azerbaijan what the impact of climate change on the country is. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues the recent earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that shook Santiago de Cuba, the second largest city in Cuba, causing damage to fragile and old houses and infrastructures that would require maintenance, as well as landslides and inconveniences in the affected areas often already in difficulty because they were previously affected by hurricanes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 13, 2024 
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 Deforestation slightly decreased in the Amazon Monitoring the area views according to Brazilian authorities deforestation in the Amazon has decreased by almost a third since August 2023, the best result in nine years, but this still means that over six thousand two hundred square kilometers of forest have gone up in smoke. The rate of destruction of the vegetation of the Cerrado in central Brazil, the most species-rich savannah in the world, has also decreased. Generally the practice of deforestation is caused by the demand for land for intensive cultivation and breeding, timber exploitation and mining, then urban expansion. To report changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues a fire in California near Los Angeles, with many people forced to leave their homes for example in Camarillo, then in Ventura County a state of emergency was declared in the affected areas. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 08, 2024 n°: 5794 CO2 and other climate-changing gases in spotlight After carbon dioxide, methane CH4 is also mentioned as one of the worst greenhouse gases, which would have an effect on global warming eighty times compared to CO2 (over a period of twenty years), while that of nitrous oxide N2O is three hundred times. Since in 2023 the concentrations of these three gases in the atmosphere have reached new records, it is expected that in the future temperatures will probably continue to rise at a faster pace than they have been so far and how a solution should be found to this problem that risks not achieving the goal of keeping global temperatures under control. Of note the complaints in Colombia about the scarce resources allocated at COP16 to preserve biodiversity, it seems that many rich countries have poor contributed and the U.S. does not participate. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 06, 2024 n°: 5792 Volcanic eruption on Flores Island in Indonesia At least six people would be killed due to several volcanic eruptions of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on the popular tourist island of Flores in Indonesia in East Nusa Tenggara, there is also talk of evacuations of several villages affected by the arrival of lava, due to the fall of volcanic ash and incandescent rocks from the column that rises above the volcano. There is also talk of damaged and burned houses and a layer of volcanic material near the villages. It should be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic themes that in Spain in the region of Valencia it is feared that there are over dozens missing, among the places particularly affected by the searches a large underground parking in the shopping center of Aldaia flooded and submerged by water and mud and it is difficult for the person trapped in their cars can be saved. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 04, 2024 n°: 5790 Extreme events that exceed human defenses According to experts even in countries that enjoy relative well-being such as Spain, extreme events caused by climate change exceed human defenses and the measures that are being taken to deal with them, given what happened in the Valencia region with over one hundred and fifty victims and dozens of missing due to floods and landslides; but some complain that excessive overbuilding, poor water maintenance as well as delays in activating warnings and alarms may have played a role in what is considered a real disaster for the country. It also seems that people do not know what to do in case of floods and even if warned they do not know how to get to safety and the rescue mechanism should be strengthened; in fact, it seems that there were people who clung to trees and railings for hours before someone saved them. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 31, 2024 n°: 5788 Study on relationship between ice melt and eruptions Starting from data relating to the melting of ice in Iceland that could cause possible eruptions, a study hypothesizes that climate change could cause a new era characterized by eruptions in the coming decades, for example if this were to happen in Antarctica where volcanoes abound under a thick layer of ice; then triggering a mechanism that feeds itself with continuous rise in the seas with heavy consequences on coastal cities. In practice, if an eruption caused sea levels to rise even slightly, it would end up contributing to intensifying the extreme effects of climate change. To report changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues the wave of bad weather that affected Liguria and Sardinia regions in Italy with cloudbursts and floods, there is talk of one missing in Arenzano and one near Cagliari, then also alert in Piedmont. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 28, 2024 n°: 5785 In future no more electronic cigarettes in England It seems that it was mainly environmental reasons that led the British authorities to decide to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes from a date set for about the middle of next year; In fact, the large amount of these electronic devices thrown on the streets had become an ecological problem given the presence of small lithium batteries inside them, so much so that assembled together they could in theory ensure the traction of many electric cars. (Proposals also for the restriction of the sale of "polluting" traditional cigarettes). It should be noted that a tropical storm is affecting large areas of India starting from the Bay of Bengal, particularly affected the Odisha; there is talk of hundreds of thousands of people evacuated, schools closed in the affected areas and considerable inconvenience for the population. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 25, 2024 n°: 5783 A hurricane lashes the island of Cuba There would be six victims with many homes damaged in Cuba due to the hurricane called "Oscar" characterized by gusts of wind, heavy rains and floods while there is talk of considerable inconvenience in the capital Havana even if the continuous interruptions in the supply of electricity have been partially resolved (but in the rest of the country the complaints continue). The authorities are trying to cope with the situation by having scarce resources also due to a prolonged economic crisis and it is not possible to solve the structural energy shortage with power lines often damaged by extreme weather phenomena. It should be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues that the wave of bad weather that is affecting Italy has recently hit the Calabria region and in particular areas in the province of Catanzaro with cloudbursts and consequent floods. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 22, 2024 n°: 5780 Vanuatu emissions compared to Australian emissions The Vanuatu Islands would have released about one hundred and twenty thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2020 (less than 0.02 percent of global emissions) compared to almost three hundred and eighty million tons of Australia, so with other Pacific islands they continue their legal actions to safeguard their nations, but it is estimated that the ocean level will rise by at least fifteen centimeters in the next thirty years and ninety percent of the population live within five kilometers of the coast with inevitable growing concern. Vanuatu, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu should be a case to keep in mind in order to leverage the change needed to tackle the global warming, also considering that they are nations that have contributed minimally to fueling it while suffering the greatest consequences. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 19, 2024 n°: 5778 Reconstruction with criteria after floods After a building has been flooded or a house damaged by floods, there is a tendency to rebuild or repair them as they were before, but this habit must change, at least according to researchers who argue that we could soon find ourselves in the same conditions (if not worse since emissions are still increasing instead of decreasing). Sometimes are forced by regulations and various contracts made to protect the property, but it is clear that in the event of a new flood the costs of dealing with the situation will recur and will be increasingly burdensome; so it is undoubtedly adapting buildings to climate change. Changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues the recent torrential rainfall in Marrakesh in Morocco is worth mentioning, there is talk of roads transformed into torrents and considerable inconvenience for the population. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 14, 2024 n°: 5773 Various and natural * 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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