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If we were to go back 142 years we would not find a July as hot as this year's. In fact, since we began regularly monitoring the temperature of our Planet, there have never been temperatures as high in July…
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The draft of the next report by the IPCC – the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – is clear: a rise in global warming to above the limit set by the Paris Agreement on climate would have "irreversible impacts…
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The Earth's climate is based on a delicate balance between the incoming energy, arriving from the Sun mainly in the form of light, and the outgoing energy, radiated from the Earth into space in the form of heat (infra-red thermal…
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Plants can be valuable allies and provide possible solutions to air pollution, at least in indoors. Plants have an extraordinary ability to remove pollutants from the environment. They can, for example, depollute soil and water and are able to purify…
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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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Air pollution emergency in Italy: despite the pandemic, air quality in urban environments was one of the most critical issues in 2020. Of 96 provincial capitals analysed in 2020, 35 exceeded the limits set by law for the daily concentration…
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A video game app: Change Game, the new science-based collaborative and interactive video game created by the CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change) and developed by Melazeta srl with the support of EIT Climate-KIC. Change Game is also an…
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Air pollution emergency in Italy: 2019 was also a "code red" year for many large cities in Italy, due to the high concentrations of fine particulate matter and ozone. The "Mal'aria di città 2020" report, the annual dossier on air…
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Help! a storm! Man has always been afraid of lightning, in fact in the past lightning was considered a sign of the anger of the gods, but in reality, even though lightning may seem an exemplary punishment, the possibility of…