Climate Change
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Drought in Europe is sinking Amsterdam: fungi corrode the foundations
The withdrawal of groundwater exposed the foundation poles to the attack of fungi that "eat" wood undermining the stability of…
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The seabed tells how the Thwaites glacier, giant of Antarctica, will melt
In the last two centuries, the retreat of the glacier in the areas where it is "anchored" to the seabed…
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Drought in Italy, no truce at least until November
The forecasts of the EU Joint Research Centre suggest a slight improvement in the hydrological situation in Italy. TThe country…
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Seas taller than 27 cm, is now “inevitable” for the melting of the Greenland glaciers
A study published in Nature climate change brings new estimates of the Danish island’s contribution to the rise of global…
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Floods in Pakistan, “is a climatic dystopia”
8 weeks of torrential rains caused by an abnormal monsoon season bring the Asian country to its knees. The government…
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If the heat record will become the norm for the Earth 2100
New research from the University of Washington and Harvard University provides a range of global temperature impacts depending on future…
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New York completes the first part of the East Side’s maxi climate resilience project
The project aims to improve the climate resilience of the island of Manhattan, transforming the waterfront into a system of…
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The EU observatory raises the alarm: the drought in Europe continues to worsen
Few spots of rain, very hot: for most of the European regions the drought continues while elsewhere the damage of…
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Environmental and climate disasters have already caused 4,300 deaths this year
Published the Munich RE report on losses associated with climatic and natural disasters for the first part of the year:…
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Heat wave in UK: Britain launches “amber” alert
UK weather experts have launched a new heat wave alarm in the UK expected in the coming days. The problem…
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