Thirty million hectares of vegetation burned in Brazil
Last year an area covered by vegetation the size of Italy went up in smoke in Brazil, almost eighty percent more than in 2023, while there are currently still numerous fires in the Amazon largely due to ranchers and farmers who want to expand the land suitable for their activities with these illegal practices. These are discouraging data for the Brazilian authorities to present at the COP30 climate conference to be held in November in Belem since the 2024 data represent the largest area lost since 2019, a serious damage to the whole planet; in fact, there is a risk that the Amazon will emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it absorbs. Once vegetation has burned it is difficult to restore an environment that can support an ecosystem in balance with the planet's new climatic characteristics.
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Date: Jan 25, 2025
n°: 5857
Some progress in containing fires in Los Angeles
The firefighters with the support of helicopters would have been able to contain the fires that are devouring the vegetation in mountainous areas north of Los Angeles, we are talking about tens of thousands of people authorized to return to their homes (evacuation orders had reached over fifty thousand and many remain with alert notices), while a fire in the southwest of Ventura County is worrying since the vegetation is quite dry due to eight months of absence or little rainfall and the so called Santa Ana winds could advance the flames quickly. In the meantime the death toll from previous fires is twenty-eight with fourteen thousand structures destroyed, then barriers are being prepared in hilly areas (near Palisades and Altadena) in the event of any rains that would drag a flow of debris downstream.
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Date: Jan 24, 2025
n°: 5856
Landslides in Indonesia and wildfires in California
Sixteen people would be killed, five missing and several injured in a central area in the province of Java due to landslides caused by intense and prolonged rainfall especially in the Pekalongan, a thick layer of mud hinders the intervention of rescuers; then there is talk of floods, particularly affected the city of Bandar Lampung with fourteen thousand houses submerged affecting over eleven thousand two hundred residents, the global current "La Nina" tends to intensify rainfall in the archipelago (but with climate change hydrogeological risks are increasing). As for California new outbreaks are devouring vegetation forcing the evacuation of more than thirty thousand people in Los Angeles, north of the city, three thousand two hundred hectares of woodland have already gone up in smoke for what has long been considered a disaster of great proportions.
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Date: Jan 23, 2025
n°: 5855
Assessments of U.S. exit from climate agreements
After China the United States is among the countries that emit the most climate-altering gases into the atmosphere, but in first place if we consider the historical total of these greenhouse gases emitted; so some protest about the exit of the U.S. from the Paris climate agreements, then this happens just when California has recorded the worst forest fires in its history (and currently Texas is affected by an anomalous cold wave at these latitudes). Countries quite affected by climate change such as Iran, Libya and Yemen have also not joined the agreements; so in part the same considerations can be made. It is estimated that the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would have to be forty percent by 2030 and almost sixty percent by 2035 to be able to limit warming that would make the planet unlivable.
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Date: Jan 22, 2025
n°: 5854
Proposals for coffee cultivation in new countries
Climate change has caused coffee production to drop in many countries such as Brazil and Vietnam where fluctuating rainfall has favored the formation of mold, fungi and plant diseases, with a consequent rise in prices also because demand generally remains quite high (but declining in Europe), so to balance this reduction there would be proposals for new crops in countries less affected by climate change or where now there seem to be more favorable climatic conditions such as Togo, Ivory Coast and Kenya in Africa. There has been talk of records lately for the prices of Arabica quality beans (the most valuable and with the greatest healthy characteristics) and also partially for the prices of robusta, so action should be taken to improve productivity by preventing growers discouraged by climate change from neglecting plant care.
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Date: Jan 21, 2025
n°: 5853
Abundant rainfall in the South and in Sardinia in Italy
The abundant rainfall that affected Sardinia would have quickly filled the reservoirs that were empty due to a period of prolonged drought, it seems that in some cases they are full beyond the threshold of attention, relief for farmers struggling with water restrictions regarding uses in the fields. In Sicily region the water returns to come out of the taps, but due to a storm damage in Catania in a square on the seafront due to the erosion of the coast (landslide also in stretches of streets in east coast of Sicily). In Abruzzo region the rains have melted the snow and the reservoirs are sometimes so full that it was also necessary to pour water, needless to say that the snow mass would have guaranteed a more durable reserve helping to recharge the aquifers.
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Date: Jan 20, 2025
n°: 5852
Low temperatures in parts of Canada and northern U.S.
Weather forecasts announce very low temperatures in Canada in the coming days due to arctic air influences, although meteorologists say that it is not really a polar vortex (which allows, by stationing high up in the atmosphere, to generally maintain low temperatures in polar areas and therefore its weakening); but there is also talk of up to minus forty degrees Celsius in areas north of Alberta due to icy winds and about minus forty-five in parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, then some say that the perceived temperature could perhaps be up to minus fifty-eight. Low temperatures are also expected in large areas in the north of the United States even if with values that are not so low, but still dangerous for health if you stay outdoors for a long time, it seems that it could also partially affect northern Florida.
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Date: Jan 18, 2025
n°: 5851
New eruption of the Ibu volcano in Indonesia
For months the Ibu volcano which is located on the remote island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia in the north of the province of Maluku, has been showing signs of intense volcanic activity with columns of volcanic ash emanating from the top of the mountain, hundreds of new evacuation orders have already been sent with thousands soon arriving and evacuation centers have been set up. Recently again in Indonesia there was talk of hundreds of houses flooded in the Riau Islands due to storms and thousands of people generally affected by floods and landslides in the country. Shifting our attention to Los Angeles to report the complaints of some who claim that there are neighborhoods in the burned areas with houses without signs of damage apparently due to the intervention of private firefighters and it seems that there is a village of shops that has remained intact (however the air is still unbreathable even for all the inhabitants of the area).
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Date: Jan 17, 2025
n°: 5850
Little snow accumulated in the Alps
It is estimated that on average there is up to more than sixty percent less snow in the Alps than in the past (a period calculated approximately from 2011 to 2023), this means that the water reserve in the summer months will be very reduced and how it would be appropriate to build reservoirs to collect water from any rainfall in the spring months in order to fill the water deficit. The situation on the Apennines is a little better thanks to the recent snowfalls which, if they have caused some inconvenience with falling trees and difficulty moving, allow water reserves to be stored in the snowpack, but also in this case in the event of periods characterized by above-average temperatures in the coming months, it would be necessary to intercept the meltwater of the snow in special reservoirs; in fact, the phenomenon of desertification affects increasingly large areas.
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Date: Jan 16, 2025
n°: 5849
Study on conditions that conducive to fires
A particularly dry month of September would have determined the favorable conditions for the disastrous fire to develop in the hills of Los Angeles, at least according to a study that compared the data relating to several large fires; then, despite heavy rainfall in some cases in 2024 the 2025 began with a rather dry situation. Currently the fires are pushing supported by gusts of wind towards the area north of Los Angeles, there is talk of another eighty-four thousand evacuation orders, drinking water unsafe because polluted by toxic substances present in retardants spread by firefighting planes. The air quality is really low considering that the air is saturated with particulate matter and other fine dust from the many burned vehicles (therefore plastics, fuels..) and it is feared that the wind may increase in the coming days.
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Date: Jan 15, 2025
n°: 5848
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