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Oil companies still expanding

The major oil and gas companies would not be in line with the agreements made to limit polluting emissions and avoid global warming to no more than one and a half Celsius degrees of increase, at least according to the claims made about the intentions of twenty-five of these fossil fuel companies to continue to expand into the market with their products. The damage caused by excessive warming and the consequent greenhouse effect with devastating economic impacts is already evident on the planet, not to mention the victims and suffering; but oil companies do not seem willing to adopt plans to transition to renewable and sustainable energy and indeed it is clear that they are trying to continue on the same course of action for as long as possible by fueling the high demand for their products.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 26, 2024 n°: 5604
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Floods in southeastern Brazil

At least twenty-three people are said to have died due to torrential rainfall and consequent flooding in southeastern Brazil, particularly affected in some areas in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo; there are reports of hundreds of houses destroyed by the force of impetuous torrents of water and mud that have overwhelmed them with overturned cars and debris on the roads, teams of rescuers are trying to bring help to the population while searching for any missing people. Also worth mentioning in Rio de Janeiro is the heat wave that recently recorded forty-two Celsius degrees with a perceived temperature of over sixty-two degrees, the highest in a decade according to the authorities since these records began to be recorded in 2014; it seems to be due in part to deforestation for the increase in population with increased housing needs.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 25, 2024 n°: 5603
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Don't let be governed by artificial intelligence

To safeguard human rights, protect personal data and monitor the risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence more than one hundred and twenty countries have decided in a document that it is preferable to choose to govern artificial intelligence rather than let be governed by it. Improper use, the planning of malicious attacks, the development of artificial intelligence applications could undermine the promotion and enjoyment of fundamental rights and basic freedoms; then there is the risk of weakening the security of countries and their protection systems, of influencing elections, of depriving entire social classes of their jobs. It is one of the attempts to control a technology that does not seem to be very human-scale, but almost made to replace human intelligence, the imagination and creativity.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 23, 2024 n°: 5602
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Jump in average sea level rise

Due to the global "El Nino" current and a warmer climate (perhaps more the second factor), the researchers argue that from 2022 to 2023 the average rise in global sea level would have increased almost four times compared to the previous year; so we are talking about a significant jump especially taking into account the data that were monitored in 1993 that show how much the pace of sea rise has increased. In practice by 2050 it will be necessary to add another twenty centimeters of sea rise, provided that the percentage of acceleration remains the current one with consequences that are already disastrous. As a result of the global El Niño current rainfall is generally more intense and much of this rain falls on the seas causing it to rise, but there is also a clear human imprint in this accelerating trend.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 22, 2024 n°: 5601
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Can't live without being able to breathe good air

Last year only ten countries and nine percent of cities in the world would have air of quality judged breathable based on the quantities of ultrafine PM2.5 particulate matter present, considered very harmful to health (it seems to kill more people than any other pollutant in general and in 2021 the guidelines recommended cutting the average from ten to five micrograms per cubic meter); according to the researchers can live on average two months without food, three days without water, but only a few minutes without air which is evidently essential for life. Fine dust enters directly into the bloodstream and then into various organs, can irritate the lungs and respiratory system and reduce the well-being of the body without considering that they are responsible for heart attacks, strokes, tumors, Parkinson's, cause oxidative stress and damage cells at a faster rate than reparative.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 21, 2024 n°: 5600
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Breaking all negative climate records

Yet another red alert from international organizations regarding the climate data collected during 2023, in particular regarding ocean warming and ice melting in the polar ice caps especially that of Antarctica (one million square kilometers below the previous negative record, an area almost equivalent to the size of Egypt). Global average temperatures are now dangerously close to the one and a half Celsius degree increase established in the 2015 Paris Agreement as a limit not to be exceeded and these are negative records since temperatures were monitored one hundred and seventy-four years ago, then the rise in sea levels is really worrying. To be reported changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues a cloudburst with consequent flooding of water and mud in the city of Duhok in Iraq, there is talk of two victims as well as damage and inconvenience.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 20, 2024 n°: 5599
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An eco-tax for the global shipping industry

Ways to curb polluting emissions from the global shipping industry have long been sought, and now a document is being discussed by an international maritime organization to impose a tax on every ton of greenhouse gases that the industry produces (the European Union, Canada and vulnerable Pacific island states are participating). This tax could finance sea transport with low-polluting ships and the transition to greener shipping for poor emerging countries, but some opponents argue that this would penalize these economies even though it is well known that the costs of compensating for the damage of global climate change are now higher than those produced by entire advanced economies. It is estimated that the nautical sector accounts for about three percent of CO2 emissions, increasing for the next few decades without action.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 19, 2024 n°: 5598
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State of emergency on the Reykjanes Peninsula

The fourth eruption since December affected the Reykjanes peninsula in southeastern Iceland, there is talk of a missing and state of emergency for the localities of Grindavik (a town evacuated for some time) and Blue Lagoon; the incandescent magma emerges from a fissure about three kilometers long and advances past the barriers of earth and rock that have been prepared to deflect and control the spectacular magmatic flow. Researchers had already widely predicted the eruption because volcanic activity in the subsurface remained quite high. It is worth mentioning changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues a legislation recently approved in France to regulate extremely low costs fashion with a high environmental impact, the entire textile sector seems to be responsible for ten percent of climate-altering gas emissions as well as being a major polluter of water.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 18, 2024 n°: 5597
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Ohio in U.S. devastated by tornadoes

Violent tornadoes in succession have hit the Ohio state in the United States leaving a trail of destruction, there is talk of several victims and injuries while trying to rescue all the people affected by the strong vortices that have devastated homes, overturned cars and uprooted trees as well as swirling debris of all kinds. Violent tornadoes also occurred in Indiana with many injured, then the series of vortices also affected Kentucky. Of note changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues the alarm of researchers on colonies of emperor penguins (a species in danger of extinction) due to the H5N1 avian flu that is spreading in Antarctica; this is a highly pathogenic influenza also found in cormorants and since the animals tend to stay very close together this could increase the percentage of transmission between the colonies.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 16, 2024 n°: 5596
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Heavy rainfall in Argentina with flooding

Soybean fields in Argentina would have been affected by heavy rainfall and there are fears that the harvest for the 2023-24 season could suffer serious consequences (while the wheat harvest for the 2024-25 growing season could perhaps be fine); there is talk of flooding in some areas of the city of Buenos Aires as well as a kind of lightning storm with flashes every second. It will be necessary to deal with the high humidity rate so as not to compromise the health of the plants from any fungi and pathogens, although it is generally better that it rains in abundance rather than the drought experienced previously. Shifting attention to other scenarios, it is worth mentioning the copious snowfall that affected large areas of Colorado in the United States with thousands of homes left without electricity supply and inevitable inconvenience for the population.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 15, 2024 n°: 5595
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