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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There is a phrase that is uttered in all parts of the globe to regardless of any argument relating to the improvement of cycling mobility in the city: “Oh but [*insert city as desired*] it's not Amsterdam". There is in fact this widespread belief that in the Dutch capital the people were born with a greater propensity to use the bicycle.The natural belief that the city was founded in that way:built around mobility on two wheels, always.Sort of Urban DNA:if you don't have that gene, there's no point wasting time. Well, let's try once and for all to dispel this myth.And we do it by telling the story of as Amsterdam has become the world capital of cycling mobility (because you are not born there, but you become one) and how other cities, often many years later, have followed its example.As?Making a resolute and profound urban transformation driven by the desire to take space away from cars and g...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In the language of today's politics there is an expression that is indicative of a certain sloppiness, and it is the "vocation of the territories".It is a captivating formula that is repeated by representatives of all political colors and latitudes.Easy to grasp (and wear), the vocation of the territories is to be understood in the religious sense, as something immutable and to be adhered to uncritically.But which in reality becomes the pass to try to impose one's own vision of the world.Except that the territories, the ways in which we imagine them and the ways in which we transform them, they are the result of certain choices, daughters in turn of mediations and conflicts - even abandonment is a choice, as demonstrated for example by the case of Abruzzo and inland areas.In this sense, the Italy that we are trying to outline in this eternal post-pandemic and post-conflict present is a paradi...

A study published in the scientific journal Nature this January 3 and promoted by Global Fishing Watch, a company launched by Google in partnership with Oceana and SkyTruth to monitor fishing activities by providing a global vision, has detected the impact of the activities of industrial ships and energy infrastructures in coastal waters since 2017 to 2021.The analysis was carried out through a combined use of GPS data from ships, satellite images and models deep learning, and aims to propose a broader vision of theindustrial and commercial activity in the oceans, outlining, albeit partially, a first mapping of theanthropogenic activity on the maritime environment.The reason why such a study was conducted is well explained in the very first lines of the article:“The world's population increasingly relies on the ocean for food and energy products and for trade, yet human activity in the sea it is not properly quantified”, unlike the terrestrial one.Having an initial overview...

When heavy rainfall arrives after long periods of drought, water infiltration problems are created due to the rigidity of the soil

The "historic vote", as the president of the EP, Roberta Metsola, defined it, is the result of agreements reached with EU countries at the end of 2022