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Saturday 11 May, the Mauna Loa observatory, in Hawaii, recorded a new record level for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, that is 415.26 ppm (parts per million). This level, explain the experts at the observatory run by the…
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Thousands (3,500 according to the police; 10,000 according to organizers) of mostly young people turned out today in Rome for the “Fridays for Future” protest against climate change. The guest of honor was Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish activist who…
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Global emissions of CO2 linked to power production have increased in 2018, reaching a new record. According to data published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), in fact, emissions of CO2 have risen by 1.7% over 2017, reaching a new…
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23 March is the World Meteorology Day. This, in fact, an important day for meteorology, since on 23 March 1950 the Convention that established the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) came into force. The WMO is an intergovernmental organisation comprising 189…
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Smog alert in Italy: in 2018 the air quality in urban environments is once again one of the major critical issues. The year 2018 was a “code red” year for many major cities in the Italian peninsula, due to high…
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After a stalemate lasting several days, making it necessary to extend the summit by 24 hours, an agreement to counter the climate change was reached at Cop24 in Katowice, Poland. The 196 countries taking part in the conference on climate…
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The Conference of the Parties promoted by the United Nations on climate change, COP 24, has begun in the Polish city of Katowice. The Climate Summit's inaugural message was clear: the threat to the climate has never been so urgent.…
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Just a few days from the inauguration of Cop 24 – the United Nations World Conference on Climate due to be held in Katowice, Poland, from 3 to 14 December – a new alarm has arrived from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO),…
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The year 2018, according to data processed by ISPRA (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) was the hottest year of the past two centuries in Italy. In the first week of November, ISPRA is taking stock of the climate…