The fever of Italy: more tropical nights and extreme heat. How our climate has changed in the last 20 years
Night arrives, the windows remain open and the thermometer stops above 20 degrees. In the period 2006-2023, the comparison with
“Kokushobi”, the “cruelly hot day”: temperatures in Japan have become so extreme that they deserve a new word
In Japan the heat has exceeded a new threshold. Not only that of the thermometer, but also that of language:
Love Canal, the neighborhood built on top of a toxic bomb: the story of the environmental disaster that shocked the USA
Imagine being a mother. Your child is often sick, strange smells appear in the school he attends when it rains,
New blaze of African heat arriving, August begins with peaks of over 40°C: here are the regions in the grip of the heat
The scorching heat gives us a brief respite, but a new blaze awaits us. After the peaks above 45°C recorded
It’s not just the heat: wet bulb temperature is the true limit of human survival
For years we have measured heat by looking at just one figure: air temperature. But a thermometer alone tells only
As villages dry up and the desert advances, women in Morocco climb mountains to capture fog and turn it into drinkable water
In southwestern Morocco, water comes from a place we usually associate with the opposite of thirst: a low cloud, a
Massacre of bees in Sardinia, over 700 thousand insects dead in the flames: beekeepers respond with “Sa paradura” (moving everyone)
Is called “Sa paradura” and it is one of the oldest customs in the Sardinian agro-pastoral world that has reappeared
Arctic ice melts faster again: biggest winter drop ever recorded
For a few years it had seemed that Arctic sea ice had slowed its march towards disappearance. A small respite
The dried up Aral Sea is not just an ecological nightmare, but a real carbon bomb
The Aral Sea has left rusty ships on the sand, salt-filled dust and a seabed almost as vast as Ireland.
The air we breathe: Italy is in the black for premature deaths from smog compared to the European giants
In 2023, in Italy, an estimated 73 premature deaths attributable to prolonged exposure to PM2.5 per 100 thousand inhabitants. The