Environment

Climate Change

Rinnovabili • UN High Seas Treaty may take effect by January 2025
Climate Change
UN High Seas Treaty set to take effect in January 2026

In Nice, delegations from 120 countries, including more than 50 heads of state and government, gathered with the goal of saving the ailing ocean.

Rinnovabili • AI emissions up 150% at Big Tech firms
Climate Change
AI fuels 150% surge in indirect…

Amazon leads the ranking with a 182% increase in indirect emissions between…

Rinnovabili • Marine heatwaves 2024: record highs in the southwest Pacific
Climate Change
UN: record-breaking marine heatwaves in 2024…

Marine heatwaves 2024 scorched over 10% of global ocean surface, with record…


Rinnovabili • Planetary boundaries: the 7th (out of 9) has almost been exceeded as well
Climate Change
We have almost exceeded another Planetary boundaries

The global indicator for ocean acidification, the aragonite saturation state, has worsened and is very close…

Rinnovabili • Amazon and Pantanal fires: record high, the most in 20 years
Climate Change
The year 2024 will be the worst for fires in the Amazon…

Half of the fires have devastated areas of old-growth forest. Emissions are on track to surpass…

Rinnovabili • Extreme events in Italy in the data released by Anbi. Cloudbursts account for more than half of the total. A particular concentration of events occurred in the first two weeks of September.
Climate Change
In 2024, nearly 1,900 extreme events in Italy

The data released by Anbi. More than half of the total are cloudbursts. A particular concentration…

Rinnovabili • Climate change: the degradation of the cryosphere generates tsunamis
Climate Change
Climate change: the degradation of the cryosphere generates tsunamis

The glacier retreat caused by rising temperatures led to a rockslide of 25 million cubic meters…

Rinnovabili • Antarctic Glaciers
Climate Change
Antarctic Glaciers: Decisions Today Will Shape Their Fate in 300 Years

We are making decisions today that will determine the future of Antarctica's glaciers 300 years from…

Rinnovabili • Planetary Boundaries
Climate Change
Planetary Boundaries: How to Make the Future Fair as Well as Safe

Integrating equity into the historical concept of Planetary Boundaries—this is the goal of a groundbreaking study…

Rinnovabili • Global Warming
Climate Change
Global Warming: Summer 2024 is the Hottest on Record

With August, we now have 13 months exceeding 1.5°C over the last 14 months. From January…

Rinnovabili • Cost of the climate change
Climate Change
Cost of the climate change in Africa already nears 9% of GDP

Extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and intense, along with the need to adapt…

Rinnovabili • CO2 Capture and Storage
Climate Change
Realistic Global Capacity for CO2 Capture and Storage: New Study Reveals Limits

A study published in Nature Communications provides an estimate of the global maximum capacity for CO2…

Rinnovabili • Forest ecosystems and climate change
Climate Change
Forest ecosystems and climate change

Is it possible to protect forest ecosystems from the effects of climate change? A study has…

Rinnovabili • Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to worsen?
Climate Change
Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to…

A new study from the JRC examines the effects of climate change on temperature-related morbidity and…

Rinnovabili • Record temperature for the Mediterranean
Climate Change
Record temperature for the Mediterranean with an average daily climb of 30…

On 15 August a record average temperature for the Mediterranean Sea of 28.9°C was recorded, higher…