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Over the last 50 years, oil spills from tankers at sea have decreased by more than 90%.From the peaks of the 1970s, a period in which cases of large oil spills at sea occurred up to once every almost three days, problems relating to oil disasters have in fact decreased drastically, so much so that in 2023 there were just a case of a large spill.Furthermore, the 2023 data is not a mere isolated case, but is part of a general trend of containment of the phenomenon which has been going on for decades and which since the end of the early 2000s has never seen the number of averages and large spills reach double figures.This result was made possible by international policies and scientific progress, which led to the implementation of oil plants and cargo ships which made transport and storage systems more efficient, making them also safer. Data relating to oil spills on board oil vessels are provided by International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF), which publishes a report on the...

With the approval of Supreme Decree 5235, the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, declared on Monday a state of national disaster due to the forest fires which are devastating the eastern part of the country in particular.The governorate of Santa Cruz - the area most affected by the fires - has in fact reported that, until last week, the flames consumed over 7.2 million hectares of forests and grasslands:this is the largest environmental disaster suffered in this region, where 27% of the national population resides and which it represents the economic engine and the main agricultural and livestock center of the country.Bolivia is not the only Latin American country having to face a scenario that seems increasingly uncontrollable:in fact, in the global silence, in Brazil almost 370 thousand square kilometers of forest have gone up in smoke in recent months. The Supreme Decree signed by the president of Bolivia has the aim of «protecting the environment, the health and lives of people...