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Still bad weather in Italy with damages and inconveniences

A wave of bad weather characterized by heavy rainfall and sometimes hail has affected some regions of Italy shortly after the last extreme phenomenon that struck the peninsula. There are talks of requesting a state of emergency for the Piedmont and Liguria regions, with roads sometimes impassable. In Lombardy the province of Como has been particularly affected with for example dozens of evacuees in Brevio due to a landslide. Damages in Veneto with flooding and inundated activities, and in Piedmont hailstorms have damaged vineyards and the body of a missing tourist was found who was previously swept away by the flood of a stream at a campsite while trying to save her dog. On the island of Ischia some schools are still closed due to the recent violent downpour and in the Campania region there have been cases of flooded little towns after hours of intense rainfall.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 25, 2025 n°: 6062
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A strong typhoon lashes the Philippines and Taiwan

After causing three deaths, five missing and forcing the evacuation of seventeen thousand five hundred people in areas north of the Philippines (with the provinces of Basco and Batanes affected by flooding and landslides), the powerful typhoon named "Ragasa" has caused fourteen deaths in Taiwan; there are reports of flooding from a lake barrier in Hualien County, with torrents of water and mud collapsing a bridge and then flooding the streets of Guangfu, carrying away cars and large objects. Recently affected in its path was Hong Kong with thirteen injuries and damage, and southern China where over a million people have been evacuated in Guangdong. To report turning the attention to Italy a heavy rainstorm accompanied by many lightning strikes has flooded the streets of Ischia, Capri, and Procida, the famous tourist islands of Campania causing disruptions in addition to school closures, while the torrents of water make travel difficult, sometimes even with cars submerged.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 24, 2025 n°: 6061
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Bad weather with flooding in some regions in Italy

A disturbance characterized by heavy rainfall and downpours has affected some regions in Italy, with reports of a missing woman with her dog in the province of Alessandria in Piedmont region carried away by the overflowing of a stream that is a tributary of the Bormida river; then floods in Lombardy with entire neighborhoods of Milan flooded after the rapid filling of expansion basins, particularly affected by the flooding is the town of Meda where water pumps cannot even be used due to a power outage. In Liguria region some areas have been hit by heavy rains resulting in flooding, and then in Tuscany there was a waterspout in Versilia. A cold front coming from northern Europe met the much warmer air with temperatures above the average for the northern regions and the warm Mediterranean Sea favored the extreme weather phenomenon.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Set 23, 2025 n°: 6060
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Risk that Mediterranean may be invaded by toxic fish

It is possible to track marine species through accurate computational models that predict the risk, for example that two species in particular—one highly toxic silver type fish and the voracious lion fish—could lead to a concerning biological invasion in areas of the Mediterranean, at least according to a study developed in collaboration with researchers in Greece, Denmark, and Turkey, which emphasizes that this method is not limited to a local scale and thus applied to the entire Mediterranean and demonstrating the reality of climate change. This is a threat that is becoming increasingly immediate and linked to sea temperature and salinity, two critical factors that monitored like a sort of figurative radar can predict where invasive species will appear. It is worth noting that recently some have reported increasingly frequent marine heatwaves with unusual durations in the Mediterranean.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 22, 2025 n°: 6059
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Protection of marine biodiversity in the high seas

After the adhesion of Morocco and Sierra Leone, it has been possible to reach the threshold of sixty ratifications of a treaty that provides for the protection of marine biodiversity in the high seas and is expected to become law in 2026. According to environmentalists achieving these protection goals for biodiversity areas in oceans around the world going beyond the exclusive economic zones as defined by various countries is crucial for the safeguarding of marine ecosystems. It is estimated that half of the world's oxygen is produced by the oceans and is therefore essential for facing climate change thanks to an ecosystem made up of aquatic plants and marine creatures threatened by pollution, overfishing, and mineral resources on the seabed.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Set 20, 2025 n°: 6058
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New estimates on recent heat victims in Europe

The high temperatures during the summer, with a series of heatwaves from Italy to Germany and France, where temperatures exceeded forty-six degrees Celsius in Spain and Portugal, may have caused sixteen thousand five hundred victims in Europe; researchers who focused on over eight hundred and fifty urban areas recorded temperatures 3.6 degrees higher from June to August due to climate change, but this represents only a third of the population so the death toll is certainly higher. With the heat the heart struggles to pump blood and the elderly sweat less with reduced ability to regulate their temperature; other studies estimate more than sixty thousand total deaths in 2022 and forty-seven thousand in 2023, emphasizing how Europe has become an example of the extreme effects of climate change with significant consequences on activities and especially in the tourist sector.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 19, 2025 n°: 6057
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Doubts about the impact of red fire retardants

Using red retardants from planes by spreading them over fires is considered a crucial strategy to fight fires, but some raise doubts about their real impact on the environment, especially concerning aquatic ecosystems; in fact, their exact chemical composition is not known although they effectively work by depriving oxygen that fuels the flames. Once spread their red liquid covers everything with a reddish haze, ground, trees, roofs, and if it reaches streams and rivers, the water turns red; it is generally thought that they may be safe for people and the environment even though there are not many studies on the subject, but for example there are restrictions on their use near waterways because they contain ammonia and phosphates that can be harmful to the aquatic ecosystem, affecting fish and amphibians, and algae can proliferate.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 18, 2025 n°: 6056
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Vaccinations in Congo to tackle an Ebola outbreak

In the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo vaccinations have begun for workers and individuals at higher risk to confront an Ebola outbreak that has caused at least sixteen deaths, with at least sixty-eight suspected cases; however the doses are scarce and funding is limited and international health organizations warn that the intervention is weak while the country is facing the dangerous virus for the sixteenth time. It is reported that only four hundred doses have been administered, with additional doses to be distributed later (two thousand may be found in the country and forty-five thousand will be provided then by an international coordinating group), but operations have been hindered by limited access and scarce available funds. Another issue is the conflicts especially in the eastern areas of the country which have damaged the healthcare system.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 17, 2025 n°: 6055
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The ozone hole may shrink in the coming decades

The ozone hole over Antarctica could decrease to the point of disappearing in the coming decades, demonstrating that international action regarding the important protective layer of the Earth is achieving its goals; in fact in 2024 the hole was smaller than in recent years. In 1975 a convention was followed by the Montreal Protocol which allowed for the banning of harmful gases to the ozone layer mainly found in household refrigeration, air conditioning, and aerosol sprays. To report changing the subject but still on natural topics that the Amazon rainforest has reduced by an area the size of Spain in about forty years perhaps approaching a point of no return, as the rain cycle is disrupted and a dry savanna is growing instead of forest.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 16, 2025 n°: 6054
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Study on emissions from oil and cement industries

The extreme effects of many heat waves could be directly linked to emissions from oil, coal, and cement industries; at least according to a study that highlights how a quarter of the more than two hundred heat waves that have occurred during this century would have been impossible without anthropogenic warming. It is estimated that the exploitation of fossil fuels by one hundred eighty major global polluters has contributed to about half of the increase in the intensity of heat waves since pre-industrial times. In areas of the Global South such as Africa and Latin America many heat waves are not recorded and are absent from the archives used for calculations, so the study results are likely underestimated and the real scale and consequences of these events are greater.

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Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 15, 2025 n°: 6053
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