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Winter Olympic Games increasingly precarious By 2050 only half of the twenty-one cities that previously hosted the Winter Olympic Games will have conditions to allow these sporting events due to climate change, at least according to forecasts; then as the average temperatures rise globally, the games will have to adapt to a rather precarious situation characterized by cancellations of competitions, concerns about the safety of events and an increase in the demand for plants that allow artificial snowmaking. These difficulties have already been widely presented with complaints from athletes, for example with regard to the safety of ski descents with accidents and even victims. To report by changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues a landslide in British Columbia in Canada that occurred recently at the village of Lions Bay, two victims in addition to mud and debris a stretch of highway. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 23, 2024 
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 Strong earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook the islands of the Pacific Vanuato causing several victims, collapsing buildings, bridges, covering of rubble and debris the roads affected by the earthquake followed by a replica of magnitude 5.5 and then aftershocks and prolonged seismic swarm; then there is talk of significant damage in the capital Port Vila including the nearby areas. A bus has been overwhelmed by a landslide and most likely there will be victims, the cellular telephone network is out of service and we try to organize the rescue and bring help with international support. To report by changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues that the cyclone "Chido" that after lashing the Mayotte archipelago has caused significant damage also in Mozambique, it is a very poor area and the fragile houses have sometimes collapsed or are seriously damaged, then lacks food and water. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 18, 2024 n°: 5828 A cyclone lashes the Mayotte in the Indian Ocean The authorities of the French territory of the Mayotte in the Indian Ocean east of Africa (five hundred kilometers west of Mozambique) fear that there are hundreds of victims due to the cyclone "Chido"; two for now the confirmed victims, but many buildings are very damaged or destroyed so the hypotheses speak of a very heavy death toll, perhaps even thousands, there is talk of uprooted trees, lack of electricity and water. The three hundred and twenty thousand residents of the poor territory had been warned to close themselves in the house to avoid the gusts of wind at over two hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. To report changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues an ecological disaster in the Strait of Kerch near the Black Sea where an oil tanker sank for a storm and another is damaged, the authorities investigates the incident and tries to face the situation. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 16, 2024 n°: 5826 Series of natural disasters in areas east of Java The Indonesian authorities are reportedly planning the measures to be taken to deal with a series of natural disasters (floods, landslides, high waves on the coasts and even a weak earthquake) that have affected areas in East Java in the last two weeks, there is talk of hundreds of people evacuated, four victims, dozens of schools damaged or even collapsed in eleven districts in the regency of Cianjur; the Cibeber district was particularly affected with significant damage. Also for Indonesia it should be noted that a study carried out in California would have highlighted the importance of mangroves in protecting the coasts from the increasingly marked erosion caused by rising sea levels and storms; in fact, a large amount of money saved by planting mangroves has been calculated with economic and environmental benefits even greater than those obtained with man-made defenses. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 13, 2024 n°: 5824 Fire with evacuations in Malibu, California Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in Malibu, California due to a fire that is difficult to control by firefighters that has already burned several houses and is advancing rapidly, affected by the fires even sumptuous villas that dot the well-known United States resort. There is talk of warnings given house to house to urgently hurry to evacuate because the fire front is imposing fed by rather dry vegetation due to climate change, then in over a thousand hectares the fire would be out of control also due to the not very uniform hilly conformation of the territory. There has been little attention to fire prevention for decades so much so that flammable material would have accumulated, so fires tend to advance faster with high flames, temperatures are higher and they are more destructive. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 11, 2024 n°: 5822 Warming forecast for the new year The exceptionally hot year could extend its unpositive warming effects on the next first few months, at least according to the forecasts of researchers who point out that 2024 in addition to being the hottest year has been characterized by a long series of extreme phenomena with disastrous effects on the affected areas. The amount recently allocated to help poor countries cope with climate change is judged largely insufficient since the costs of disasters are becoming increasingly high, then some argue that for example even for rich countries such as the United States intending not to join the 2015 Paris agreements the costs to repair the damage caused by extreme phenomena are reaching truly considerable figures; but apparently despite this it does not seem to be useful to invest in prevention. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 09, 2024 n°: 5820 Flooding on Greek islands of Rhodes and Lemnos There would be two victims on the well-known Greek tourist islands of Rhodes and Lemnos due to floods caused by intense rainfall (one hundred and seventy millimeters in twelve hours), there is talk of a kind of storm called "Bora" characterized by cloudbursts and gusts of wind that transformed the streets into torrents in flood with cars dragged along with debris of all kinds, then declared a state of calamity. The authorities have warned the population not to move because the wave of bad weather could still affect the islands as well as a number of locations in the country. During the summer of 2024, which was the hottest in the last forty years, Greece recorded record temperatures at sea with extremely hot conditions in the Aegean, Ionian and Cretan Seas; for example aquaculture facilities have suffered considerable damage with inevitable repercussions also in future years. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 02, 2024 n°: 5814 Heavy snowfall in South Korea At least four people would be killed in South Korea due to intense snowfall that also forced the cancellation of dozens of flights to suspend many ferry connections, then inconvenience for the population in the areas affected by bad weather. With over forty centimeters of accumulated snow, we are talking about the third record in Seoul since they began monitoring this type of data in 1907; it seems that this unusual very snowy November was caused by unusual high sea temperatures west of the Korean peninsula that met cold air currents even if lately the situation seems to have improved a bit. To be noted, changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues, the critical situation that some denounce regarding the so-called "plasticization" of the planet without seeking effective solutions to replace the plastic. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 28, 2024 n°: 5811 Strong temperature variations in Great Britain An arctic storm characterized by a sharp drop in temperatures, snowfall and gusts of wind would have hit large areas of Great Britain causing inconvenience for the population with tens of thousands of users left without a power supply, then followed a phase with a significant change in temperature and the snowfalls became intense rains with consequent flooding. Changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues to report that some say that the agreement reached at the COP29 conference concluded in Baku in Azerbaijan, to progressively increase aid to countries facing climate change from 2035, says that the document in question would be "little more than an optical illusion, because it does not take into account the seriousness of the emergency", then some doubts arise about the timing given the possible geopolitical changes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 25, 2024 n°: 5808 Funds to countries affected by extreme events In the final stages of the COP29 conference in Baku in Azerbaijan discussions continue, apparently without reaching substantial agreements, about the sums to be allocated for climate finance necessary for countries affected by extreme events so that their economies can face the climate challenges that are increasingly difficult with enormous damage and costs. Some argue that defining China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as developing countries is now hardly credible, given the real growth conditions of their economies and the industrial systems that support them are often more up-to-date than those of advanced countries. As already pointed out in the past not supporting fragile economies also means penalizing the superstructures that allow for example the agricultural sector to produce and therefore with the consequent abandonment of cultivated fields. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 22, 2024 n°: 5806 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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