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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Death and devastation.Heavy rains in southern Brazil they provoked massive floods and landslides in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil.More than half of the state's 497 cities were affected by the storms, with roads and bridges destroyed in several areas.The storms also caused landslides and the collapse of a hydroelectric dam near the town of Bento Gonçalves, killing 30 people.Authorities said a second dam in the area was also at risk of collapsing due to rising water levels. “It is the fourth environmental disaster of this type in a year, after the floods of July, September and November 2023.Flooding across the state has surpassed that recorded during the historic deluge of 1941,” remember AP.The Guaiba River, which runs through the city of 1.4 million inhabitants, he reached the record level of 5.3 meters. “Residents of several...

Contrary to what is predicted by the projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - which predict the global sequestration capacity of between 1 and 30 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year - the technologies currently in use, the availability of storage sites and the commitments made by governments to combat the phenomenon could remove a maximum of 16 gigatons of CO2 per year, even if «realistically» the limit will be 5 or 6 gigatons.This was established by a new study conducted by Imperial College, subjected to peer review and published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, who through new analyzes shows that various estimates on the topic "have been highly speculative".Samuel Krevor, co-author and researcher in Imperial's Department of Earth Science and Engineering, said: «Our study is the first to apply growth models from established sectors to CO2 storage.Our new model offers a more realistic and practical approach to predic...

The energy multinationals ENI and SNAM have announced that they have started the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emitted by the Casalboretti power plant, in the municipality of Ravenna.The project plans to capture at least 90% of the CO2 produced by the plant - estimated at around 25,000 tonnes per year – and transport it to the offshore platform Porto Corsini Mare Ovest, and then deposit it in an exhausted gas field at 3,000 meters deep.In a press release, ENI declared that this commitment is "consistent" with its desire to position itself as an "operator that facilitates a fair and balanced energy transition", adding that it is "a fundamental contribution to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050".However, no explanation can be found regarding the most recent scientific evidence, which suggest that the actual impact of this strategy on the climate may be more limited than expected and, therefore, still under discussion. According to the press re...

The Nardò Porsche track is back in the news, but this time it attracts the attention of German territories, moving onto an increasingly international stage.On the afternoon of Tuesday 5 March in Stuttgart several environmental associations organized a sit-in protest against the German production company, highlighting how the expansion of the test track through the so-called "projectNardò Technical Center” (NTC) could lead to a real environmental disaster.To lend support to environmental associations, which among other things also have harvest beyond 80,000 signatures Even the municipal administration of the city home to the important car brand appears to have come out against the construction of the work, requesting a meeting with representatives of Porsche.Meanwhile in Italy the silence of the large movements to protect the environment is strident, but their absence is filled by smaller signatures and local movements, which have presented a exposed to the TAR...

According to the director of Domino, the UN conference underway in Dubai is just an occasion in which "the powers say they are committed to saving humanity"