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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It seemed like a quiet night near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine.Then suddenly a roar and the sound of flowing water.“We are now used to loud bangs and so I didn't think it was anything serious,” he said an inhabitant of the southern shore town of Nova Kakhovka.Within minutes water began flowing through a breach.And soon the passage crossing the Dnipro River was washed away.The dam built by the USSR in 1956, an important source of water for the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, for the region's agriculture and for cooling the reactors of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, no longer existed while a massive wave of water began to flow downstream, causing a social, economic and ecological catastrophe. A torrent of water burst through a gaping hole in a dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine, fl...

Of Andrea Braschayko A few weeks ago I went to my grandmother, who lives alone – the rest of the family is in Ukraine – in a town near Caserta.Like many women from her country, she arrived in Italy representing, with pride and dignity, the poverty of the post-Soviet "wild nineties" which forced a generation of women into a life of caregiving and remittances.Although she never fully learned the language, my grandmother blended comfortably among Italian provincialism;here the nineties were, on the contrary, roaring.A stereotypical example was the husband from Caserta, who had gently aged on bread and Berlusconism. By force of circumstances, having got used to the television preferences of her now deceased partner, about twenty years later my grandmother and I found ourselves following the debates on the war in Ukraine on one of the most watched networks in that house, and for her the main source of information since February 24. I was obviously aware of what I was getting into.Apart from...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. December 5th has entered into force the $60 per barrel cap on Russian oil transported by sea imposed by the G7 countries, the European Union (with the exception of Bulgaria, which was given a longer period to comply) and Australia.The measure allows Russian crude to be shipped to third countries using tankers, insurance companies and G7 and EU lenders, only if the cargo is purchased at or below the price cap.Given that major shipping and insurance companies are based in G7 countries, the imposed limit could make it difficult for Moscow to sell its oil at a higher price.The level of the cap will be reviewed by the EU and the G7 every two months.The first review is scheduled for mid-January and “will need to take into account the effectiveness of the measure, its implementation, international take-up and alignment, market developments and the potential impact on member countries...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Nord Stream, according to the Swedish prosecutor's office, a group linked to a state was behind the sabotage of the gas pipeline Update April 7, 2023: The Swedish prosecutor who is investigating the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline he stated that the "main scenario" prefigures that a "state actor" may be behind the attack, thus casting doubt on recent theories that hypothesized the responsibility of an independent group. The type of explosive used in the attacks excludes a "large part of possible perpetrators", prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told the Reuters. According to a United Nations report, the three underwater explosions that severed the gas connection between Russia and Germany northeast and southeast of the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm on September 26, 2022 were equivalent to the power of several hundreds of kilograms of explosives.Swedish...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. More and more often, after news of fires, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, storms, droughts, we hear that we need to start getting used to what could soon be "the new normal".If we do nothing, what seems like an exception today will become the norm.Yet talking about a "new normality" suggests that what we are witnessing is an irreversible, slow, linear and, in some ways, natural and foreign to us process.But that's not the case. “This is not the new 'normal' and the climate is not just changing, it is destabilizing,” writes Greta Thunberg in her latest book “The Climate Book” (out November 1st) and of which the Guardian he published some extracts.“Until now, Earth's natural systems have acted as a shock absorber, dampening the dramatic transformations underway.But the planetary resilience that has been so vital to us will not las...