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While the tourist season is in full swing, it is now impossible to swim on the coast of Orbetello due to the presence of thousands of dead fish on the surface of the water.I am already over one hundred quintals of carcasses collected, while the dense, brown water flows out of the lagoon and into the Tyrrhenian Sea, making the beaches inhospitable, where there are such high levels of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci that they have pushed the authorities to prevent bathing.The mayor of the Tuscan town he called for a state of calamity and aid from the government.According to experts, two factors caused the disaster:fertilizers and the extremely warm temperature of the waters. From the first light of dawn on Saturday 27 July, operators have been busy monitoring, controlling and collecting fish carcasses in Tuscan waters, also with the aid of small boats.Orbetello is a lagoon with poor water circulation:for this reason, the fertilizers used in the fields that flow into the sea e...

Not only in Sardinia, the great works of the so-called "green energy" have arrived throughout Italy, starting from the south and reaching the center.This is the case of Tuscany, where for a year now citizens, committees and environmental groups have been fighting to preserve the the Mugello area is already at risk.The project for the Tuscany Region is always the same:planting towers 170 meters high, «as high as two Giotto bell towers one on top of the other», in natural areas close to the mountain, close to protected reserves, with reinforced concrete bases the size of half a football field. Land consumption, serious impact on the environment, hydrogeological instability, these are some of the risks faced by Mugello, reported by a group of groups in one open letter against wind speculation.Among these, the Committee for the protection of the Mugello ridges, one of the associations active in defense of the territory, which explained to The Independent the situation...

Ikea returns to the center of the storm, after a final investigation by Greenpeace following which the environmental organization launched an unprecedented petition:“Ikea says that the home is the place where everything begins”, but we must prevent “old forests from ending up in our homes”.This is the slogan that revolves around the new collection of signatures of the environmentalist organization, founded on a latter investigation which notes how seven Romanian companies that work and produce furniture for the Swedish multinational appear to obtain their wood from some of the last old-growth forests in Europe, located in the country's Carpathians.These, specifically, are forests that should be particularly protected because not affected by human beings since ancient times, and therefore equipped with characteristics similar to ancient primary forests.Although they are in theory protected by EU legislation, the Romanian forests and their probable exploitati...

The explanations and advice of Sante Laviola, researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences

A report from Il Meteo analyzed how annual temperatures have changed from 1985 to today in various Italian cities