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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. For the first time in the Atlantic Ocean a category 5 hurricane formed at the beginning of the summer and this is not a good sign for the rest of the year and our immediate future.This is the case of Beryl, the first major hurricane of a season that will arrive until late November, which went from tropical depression to storm and then to hurricane in the space of 48 hours.The speed with which Beryl transformed into a Category 5 hurricane is a bad sign for the Atlantic hurricane season which, fueled by increasingly rising ocean temperatures, is becoming more dangerous and unpredictable.So much so that, how underlines Simone Fant on Renewable Matter, some scientists are proposing to add an additional category – category 6 – to measure the intensity of hurricanes. “This early-season storm activity is breaking records set in 1933 and 2005, two of the most in...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The columns of tractors that have blocked the roads of France and Germany in recent weeks are nothing new.They are just the latest wave of a growing protest by European farmers against some decisions by national and European governments to protect nature from pollution generated by agricultural production and livestock farming.For some of them, already in difficulty due to the energy crisis and the consequences of the pandemic, paying higher taxes for the pollution produced is unsustainable.Others say they feel overwhelmed by bureaucracy and that they are unheard and misunderstood by city dwellers who eat the food they grow without knowing where it comes from.In agricultural giants such as the Netherlands and France, farmers have expressed frustration at pressure from governments to produce less, after years of encouragement to produce more. “In recent years we have exp...

Venezuela's Humboldt Glacier, also known as "the Crown", has melted much faster than expected.Scientists have reclassified it as ice field, or snowfield, probably making Venezuela the first country in the world to have lost all its glaciers in modern times.Until 2011, the country was home to six in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range:five melted that year, leaving only the Humboldt glacier alive, located near the second highest mountain in the country, Pico Humboldt.Now, this too is gone forever. According to forecasts the glacier – which is past to have 337 hectares of ice in 1910 to 4 hectares in 2022 – was supposed to last at least another decade, but melted away much faster than expected, shrinking to an area of ​​less than 2 hectares.It is currently only losing surface area, without any longer recording any accumulation zones or expansion dynamics.For this reason it was reclassified as a snowfield.The proposal made a few months ago b...

Claudio Tei, Cnr meteorologist:«All the Alpine glaciers, at all altitudes, are above freezing and the situation is quite critical»

The sub-tropical anticyclone coming from Africa is already affecting the regions of Central-Northern Italy.The CNR alarm for temperatures at the summit