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   Unprecedented fires in Brazil

The authorities of the state of Sao Paolo, which has forty-four million residents and is the most populous in the country, have reportedly declared a state of emergency for forty-five municipalities due to the apparently arson fires; because no lightning strikes have been identified. It is a situation of great discomfort for the population (two people lost their lives trying to put out the fires) and some define it as unprecedented, the acrid and dense smoke does not allow breathing, many flights have been canceled and it is also difficult to reach the capital Brasilia. Fires are advancing rapidly with disastrous consequences favored by climate change and those who deny them must surrender to the evidence. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues the floods that have affected Sudan, there is talk of dozens of victims even recently.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 27, 2024                  n°:   5732      
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   Monsoon rain floods in Bangladesh

Eighteen people are said to have died in Bangladesh due to floods due to monsoon rains and consequent landslides with almost three hundred thousand people forced to go to emergency shelters, the highway and the railway line between the capital Dhaka and the main port Chittagong are unusable hinder all the activities of this great economic center of the country also due to the difficulties in accessing the flooded districts. In Bangladesh the impact of floods from monsoon rains is becoming increasingly severe due to climate change; particularly affected for example the Cox's Bazaar area where about a million Rohingya from neighboring Myanmar find refuge. Floods are also worth mentioning in India with twenty-four victims again due to monsoon rains (which have long affected the country defined as of unprecedented intensity) and torrential rainfall in the Moluccas with damage and inconvenience for the population.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 26, 2024                  n°:   5731      
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   Forensic investigations influenced by climate change

Entomologists use data that refer to the larval state of insects to understand what the time of a crime is and other typical characteristics related to the type of insects (a body may have been moved from a different place or moved and dragged even in different urban environments), but climate change can affect these detections making their task more difficult. For example it can happen to have very hot days followed by days with stable weather and then bad weather with cloudbursts and this makes everything more complicated for those who have to calculate schedules or compare reference models, then even if the consequences are generally not drastic still have to adapt to the new parameters dictated by climate change. The research should be adapted according to each specific regional climate including all the supporting surveys.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 24, 2024                  n°:   5730      
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   Knowledge to be learned about mpox variants

Tests should be conducted to understand what the differences are regarding infections from variants of monkeypox (mpox); in fact, apparently the researchers say that caution is needed before declaring for example that the Calde 1 variant is associated with a higher mortality rate than Clade 2, then also with regard to the Clade 1b subvariant perhaps it is an evolution that spreads among humans, possibly even more virulent than the zoonosis Clade 1 (now called Clade 1a) which usually affected infected animals and in a more limited way the men in specific communities. In the meantime while some say that mpox will not be a new Covid there is talk of a case identified in Thailand of a new variant, then in Indonesia the level of attention towards the virus has been raised with dozens of laboratories equipped for viral tests.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 23, 2024                  n°:   5729      
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   Crops affected by drought in southern Africa

The effects related to the global current "El Nino" already at the beginning of the year would have affected vast regions in southern Africa, there is talk of crops suffering from drought and about sixty-eight million people are at risk from food shortages; then recently in the Harare capital of Zimbabwe in a conference was discussed, among other food security issues concerning sixteen (developing) countries of southern Africa. If the fields no longer produce fodder livestock farms are also affected and consequently the entire economy, it is estimated that seventeen percent would need aid and Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi have already declared the food crisis as a state of disaster, then Lesotho and Namibia require humanitarian support. In Zimbabwe malnutrition affects children under five, pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as adolescents.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 22, 2024                  n°:   5728      
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   Still too many forest fires in Amazon

The illegal fires in the Amazon of the vegetation that farmers use to gain arable land at the expense of the forests are releasing large quantities of particulate matter into the atmosphere, are talking about unbreathable air for example in Porto Velho which with fifty-six and a half micrograms of PM2.5 is eleven times above the limits recommended by world organizations (a week ago there was also talk of peaks of over two hundred and forty-six micrograms in control units of monitoring); the state of Rondonia would have recorded the worst July in nineteen years in terms of the number of confirmed fires. It should be noted that a recent study would have found that in 2023 fires would have caused a massive release of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, sixteen percent above average, with a mechanism that self-feeds fires due to the global warming.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 21, 2024                  n°:   5727      
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   Rare extreme phenomenon causes a yacht to sink

A large sailboat over fifty meters long and with a seventy-two mast sank causing one victim and six missing in the harbor of Porticello in the province of Palermo in Italy due to a rare extreme phenomenon caused by climate change, in figurative terms a "potential difference" between the very warm sea and a flow of cooler air passing over caused a sudden whirlwind with gale force winds that hit the sailing ship by breaking the mast causing it to capsize [.. intact mast, open porthole or keel, bottom impact, investigations?]; other whirlwinds have caused damage and inconvenience for example in Campania and Puglia regions. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues, the recent gigantic fire against the forests around Izmir in the Aegean region, the third most populous city in Turkey, hundreds of evacuations before the flames were extinguished by many teams of firefighters.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 20, 2024                  n°:   5726      
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   Case of monkeypox in the Philippines

Health authorities have not yet sequenced the genome of the mpox virus that infected a Filipino man who had not traveled abroad, is the first case monitored since December last year; this refers to the global alert regarding greater surveillance on monkeypox. Recently Pakistan had confirmed at least one case of the virus even if the exact outcome of the sequencing is not known. Generally people infected with the virus have mild symptoms but in some cases for example with a weakened immune system it can also be fatal especially if it is the new clade 1 variant (are talking about four percent of cases of victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then the "TPOXX" antiviral doesn't appear to work with the clade 1), itchy lesions often form on the skin and even pustules with fever and malaise.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 19, 2024                  n°:   5725      
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   Possibly low spread for mpox virus in Europe

According to the forecasts of the health authorities even if imported cases of monkeypox in Europe will probably rise there will hardly be a wide spread of the mpox virus, then the disease should not be so serious; provided that all surveillance practices are adopted, avoiding close contacts and isolating any cases identified. Since November 2023 for example in the Democratic Republic of Congo there have been over sixteen thousand new cases with the clade 1 mpox variant with over five hundred victims, therefore with a sharp increase in cases; then nine other neighboring countries reported cases. Two days ago the new mpox variant Clade 1b was identified in Sweden, but some say that the risk of a Covid-type pandemic is difficult even if the question remains about possible further mutations of the virus and infections under trace.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 17, 2024                  n°:   5724      
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   Artificial intelligence increasingly dangerous

A new application to generate images based on artificial intelligence almost instantaneously and also with the possibility of remarkable sharpness and precision of detail would have been made available on an American social network (for the moment to users who have access to services with privileges) and apparently it is feared that it could be used to influence the next elections in the United States. Disparaging images have already been published that spread misinformation in the population without a filter being placed to avoid it, then lately many questionable images have been uploaded to websites made with generative artificial intelligence applications for some time (November 2022) used on a global scale and some also speak of a vicious circle that pushes them to be published faster and faster.

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Tel:    +39 338 1809310          Date:   Aug 16, 2024                  n°:   5723      
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