environment

Increasingly serious drought situation:the only good news is that the aquifers have been little affected, but investments are needed.

On the morning of July 25, Ultima Generazione activists entered Frankfurt airport, which was blocked for a few hours.

While overall in the world the surface area of ​​forests continues to progressively reduce, in Italy it has been growing without interruption since the end of the Second World War.It did so by even recording an expansion of 28% in the thirty years between 1985 and 2015, in which it went from 8.7 to 11.1 million hectares.Italy is thus the second European country - preceded only by Spain - in terms of forest cover.Furthermore, the hectares of sustainably managed forests in Italy rose to 980 thousand in 2023, with an increase of +5.9% compared to the previous year. As demonstrated by the statistics of FAO-UNEP, currently the surface area of ​​forests in the world amounts to a total of 41 billion hectares, representing 31% of the emerged lands and counting around 60 thousand species of trees.54.1% of it is located in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Russia and China.However, over the last 35 years, forest cover has increased across the globe a drop of more than 4%...

Thursday 4 April The Institut Paris Région (IPR), one of the largest regional urban planning and environmental agencies on the European continent, has published a regional survey on the mobility of the French, from which it emerged that the majority of citizens now prefer to travel by bike rather than by car.In fact, although the car remains the first motor vehicle used in the Region, with a strong preponderance in the outskirts of the city, the majority of residents in Paris now uses two wheels or public transport.The study confirms the efforts of the French capital in its work to discourage the use of the machine and individual motorized means of transport, which the city has been carrying out for years through targeted and more structural operations. The survey was conducted on a sample of 3,337 French citizens between the ages of 16 and 80 who agreed to equip themselves with GPS for seven consecutive days.According to the IPR, the investigation confirms "the great const...

Worldwide, only 57 companies belonging to the energy and cement sectors are responsible for 80% of climate-changing gas emissions.Among these, there is also the Italian Eni.This was demonstrated, with data in hand, by research based on the "Carbon Majors" platform - a database created in 2013 by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute in the USA -, carried out by the London-based non-profit think tank InfluenceMap.The statistics cover a very broad time period, ranging from 1854 to 2022, but the report places a particular focus on the period between 2016, when governments around the world signed the Paris climate agreements, until 2022.In fact, in this phase alone, 251 billion tons of CO2 were released into the atmosphere. Historically, investor-owned companies account for 31% of all emissions tracked by the database, with America's Chevron and ExxonMobil and Britain's BP taking center stage.State-owned companies are linked to 33% of the total database:here Saudi...