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In the last six years, 800 million trees have been cut down to satisfy the world's hunger for meat

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The fire emergency repeats itself every year, in July there is the peak of attention, but then in winter there is not enough work on prevention.In Italy, after almost 160 thousand hectares of land were burned in 2021, an improvement was recorded in 2022 with "only" 68,510 hectares affected by fires, and the summer of 2023 also begins with a low risk level thanks to the abundant rains in recent months.Like every year, the race started in mid-June Aib campaign (forest firefighting) on ​​tasks, responsibilities and initiatives that the various bodies and administrations must undertake in the event of an emergency.But before the emergency, what was done in winter to prevent fires?According to many observers, not enough.“In Italy there is still a lot of focus on active fire fighting and not so much on prevention,” explains a Blue suitcase L...

“An unprecedented situation.”Thus a Quebec minister he described the hundreds of fires that fire crews have been trying to put out across Canada for weeks.A formula that we are hearing repeated a little too often lately to comment on the extreme events that are affecting the entire globe.According to Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, more than half of the 414 fires across the country are out of control, and the hottest and driest months of the year are yet to come. In Canada we are increasingly seeing two moments in which there are peaks in fires:in late summer and spring.“When the snow melts in the early spring and the warm, dry weather arrives very early, you have this window of vulnerability,” explained Paul Kovacs, executive director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western University.“Spring fires are much more frequent than they were 20 or 30 years ago.And if in the next few weeks we can have some peace of mind wi...

With the approval of Supreme Decree 5235, the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, declared on Monday a state of national disaster due to the forest fires which are devastating the eastern part of the country in particular.The governorate of Santa Cruz - the area most affected by the fires - has in fact reported that, until last week, the flames consumed over 7.2 million hectares of forests and grasslands:this is the largest environmental disaster suffered in this region, where 27% of the national population resides and which it represents the economic engine and the main agricultural and livestock center of the country.Bolivia is not the only Latin American country having to face a scenario that seems increasingly uncontrollable:in fact, in the global silence, in Brazil almost 370 thousand square kilometers of forest have gone up in smoke in recent months. The Supreme Decree signed by the president of Bolivia has the aim of «protecting the environment, the health and lives of people...