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Local authorities are trying to repair the damage caused by the death of fish in the Orbetello lagoon, in Tuscany, at the height of the tourist season.

The municipality of Linhares, which was hit by disaster following the collapse of the Fundão dam, has decided to legally protect the waves of its coast.

With the diversion of Russian trade flows from Europe to China, Moscow needs to upgrade the railway lines near Lake Baikal.Thus, it gives the green light to deforestation.The threat of mass tourism also looms over the large lake.

On Tuesday 6 August the Meloni Government appointed Enrico Caterino, former prefect of Rovigo and Ravenna, as extraordinary commissioner to deal with the emergency linked to the proliferation of the blue crab in Italian waters.This decision responds to growing concerns regarding the serious economic and ecological impact caused by the spread of this invasive species, particularly in the Adriatic Sea.According to the Minister of the Environment, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, the blue crab is threatening not only various economic activities, but also the entire marine ecosystem. The invasion of the blue crab (so called because of the color of its carapace), known scientifically as Callinectes sapidus, has started to cause alarm since 2020, despite the fact that specimens have been spotted in our waters since the mid-1990s.Native to the western coasts of the American continent, the blue crab arrived in the Mediterranean Sea via the “ballasts” of transatlantic ships, which capture...

Tropical Storm Debby was moving so slowly, Olympians could have outrun it as it moved across the Southeast in early August 2024. That gave its rainfall time to deluge cities and farms over large parts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. More than a foot of rain had fallen in some areas by early Aug. 7, 2024, with more days of rain forecast there and into the Northeast. Mathew Barlow, a climate scientist at UMass Lowell, explains how storms like Debby pick up so much moisture, what can cause them to slow or stall, and what climate change has to do with it. What causes hurricanes to stall? Hurricanes are steered by the weather systems they interact with, including other storms moving across the U.S. and the Bermuda High over the Atlantic Ocean. A hurricane may be moving slowly because there are no weather systems close enough to pull the hurricane along, or there might be a high-pressure system to the north of the hurricane that blocks its forward movement. In this case,...