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With Minister Lollobrigida, as we know, the last gaffe is always the penultimate.In the sense that the owner of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, as well as brother-in-law of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, produces continuously.But that of May 10th, pronounced to the question time session of the Senate, according to which "fortunately the drought this year has affected some areas of the South and Sicily in particular", deserves particular attention.First of all why, how remember The paper, the lack of water has repercussions on agriculture in general and specifically on viticulture, perhaps the sector that is closest to Lollobrigida's heart, as well as on forage and therefore on farms, as underlined by Coldiretti, the association more listened to by the minister. But above all because the drought follows the "palm line".The expression was invented by Leonardo Sciascia in the book The day of the owl to theorize, already in the 1960s, the advanceme...

Namibia will kill at least 700 hippos, elephants, buffaloes, zebras and other wild animals to combat the severe drought that is bringing the country to its knees.The State has started culling wild animals for feed populations starving due to lack of rain, which is causing crop failures in what has been described as the most severe drought in the African country's recent history.So far they have already been more than 260 animals killed to provide meat to thousands of people and reduce pressure on grazing and water resources, already seriously compromised by drought.Altogether, professional hunters were commissioned to cull 30 hippos, 83 elephants, 60 buffaloes, 100 wildebeests and as many antelopes, 300 zebras and 50 impalas. The slaughter of animals was announced by the Ministry of the Environment in Windhoek on Thursday 26 August, and is part of the so-called Drought relief program, intended to provide food support to the country's population.The animals to be killed, a total of 723,...

On the island the winter did not bring the rains seen in the rest of the country, prolonging water suffering due to which a state of natural disaster was declared

On Thursday 1 February, Catalonia launched thedrought emergency, after experiencing the second month of the hottest year ever recorded in the area with thresholds above 0.8 degrees centigrade compared to the average temperature recorded from 1991 to 2020.The decision came from the administration after having noted a reduction in the reserves of the water basins outside below the 16% threshold indicated in the Drought Plan, and has led to the application of numerous measures to deal with the water crisis that is affecting the region, and involving approximately 6 million people.The measures taken include limiting water consumption for agriculture, industry and private use with a view to "growing pressure to accelerate adaptation efforts".The Copernicus study center is monitoring the situation, and has presented a study to analyze how Catalonia is adapting to the emergency situation. The study conducted by Copernicus and published in collaboration with the newspaper Euronews an...

Last year the temperatures recorded in our country were 1.23°C higher than the 1991-2020 average