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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...

According to estimates by the European Environment Agency, from 1990 to today climate change has caused 22 thousand deaths and 92 billion euros lost in our country

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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. According to preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the first week of July was the world's hottest ever recorded since global temperatures have been recorded with "potentially devastating impacts on ecosystems and the environment".At least three series of data indicate this, explains the WMO:those managed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), those collected by the University of Maine and those by the European Union climate monitoring service, Copernicus.With a global average temperature of 17.24°C on July 7th has been overcome the previous record, reached on 16 August 2016, was 0.3°C.Then, as today, the El Niño climate phenomenon influenced global temperatures. The month of June had already been the hottest month on record and this week Italy could touch levels never reached in Europe, writes the Guardian. &ldqu...

Based on preliminary data provided by three meteorological agencies (Japan, United States, European Union), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established that the first week of July was the hottest ever recorded since temperatures have been recorded .And 2023 is increasingly becoming the year with the highest temperatures ever. The impacts of record heat have been felt around the world.After heat waves in China and the United States and drought in Spain, above-average temperatures were recorded in India, Iran and Canada, while extreme heat in Mexico caused more than 100 deaths.Last week in Adrar, Algeria, there was the hottest night ever in Africa, with temperatures not dropping below 39.6°C.Meanwhile, Nigeria is preparing to face another series of dangerous floods. In recent days we have seen images from northern Spain of people desperately clinging to their cars submerged by flash floods caused by heavy rain.In Japan, one person died and hundreds of thousands were as...