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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.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 21, 2025                  n°:   5954      
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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.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 20, 2024                  n°:   5953      
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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.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 19, 2025                  n°:   5952      
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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.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 17, 2025                  n°:   5951      
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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.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 16, 2025                  n°:   5950      
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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.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 15, 2025                  n°:   5949      
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An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 was recorded at the Campi Flegrei with an epicenter between Pozzuoli and Bacoli near Naples, linked to the phenomenon of bradisism. As usual there are inconveniences for the affected population, with subways and funiculars closed for precaution and some activities suspended; there are discussions about requesting a state of emergency for the Campi Flegrei area in order to expedite rescue procedures in the event of significant seismic events. There is no magma rising from the magma chamber, only high-pressure gases that pressing on the surface rock layers fracture them to find a way out causing earthquakes and seismic swarms in what has been an active volcanic field for about eighty thousand years with alternating phases of activity and lately twenty years of bradisism. Possible the phreatic explosions but not particularly concerning due to contact between very hot fluid and aquifers.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 14, 2025                  n°:   5948      
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A little-known underwater territory of forty thousand square kilometers located between Mauritius and Seychelles, like the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean (an area comparable in size to Switzerland), would be a rare and precious ecosystem in international waters that needs protection because it is at risk of intensive exploitation by the fishing industry. This is considering that it is a lung of the ocean rich in seagrass beds and habitat for numerous marine species capable of capturing carbon dioxide thirty-five times faster than tropical forests. Moreover researchers claim that boats arriving in these very fishy waters even from distant countries not only fish for tuna but also catch sharks for their fins leading to their extinction. In 2012 international organizations deemed the Saya de Malha Bank a potential candidate for World Marine Heritage.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 13, 2025                  n°:   5947      
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Although there are technologies to monitor and reduce methane leaks during extraction phases especially in the hydrocarbon exploitation sector losses remain too high, at least according to a report by international energy agencies. The concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere (eighty times more powerful than CO2, even though it lasts for about a decade) has more than doubled in the last two centuries, mainly due to human activities. It is estimated that until 2019 methane emissions from fossil fuel exploitation could be quantified at about one hundred and twenty million tons; then they peaked and do not seem to be decreasing. Some say that addressing this factor is of great importance, but countries generally do little to reduce these losses.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 12, 2025                  n°:   5946      
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Posidonia meadows in the sea can absorb over thirty-five times carbon dioxide compared to tropical forests, making them an ally in efforts to limit the impacts of climate change or potentially one of the solutions; moreover, the health of the sea and consequently fishing depends on these underwater plants, which are also habitats for over three hundred species of algae and more than a thousand species of marine animals. It is estimated that the extent of posidonia meadows in the Mediterranean has already decreased by at least thirty-four percent, mainly due to unregulated boat anchoring, along with truly destructive fishing practices on the seabed and intensive aquaculture practices conducted near these posidonia meadows that constitute an entire ecosystem, the loss of which would release a large amount of CO2 that has been stored for centuries.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   May 10, 2025                  n°:   5945      
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