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Extreme summer heat as the ‘new normal’?

Never such a hot day. Never such a hot week. Never such a hot month. Chances are that 2023 will be the warmest year on record.
Forest fires, tourist evacuations, crop failures and floods are the “new normal” you will hear people say. We show you why it’s not.

What time is it? It’s summer heatwaves time

Summer heatwaves turn out to be a predictable phenomenon for Italy. It is in recent weeks that the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security published the new National Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Will this be a definite turning point for our Country? In the meantime, heat persists, and even small provincial towns far from urban centers are affected by global climate dynamics.

Extreme events happen. What can we do about it?

In the Anthropocene, natural and human-induced extreme events are hitting the world more frequently than in the past. How can we handle them?”

Green Rooftops: old-school solutions for today’s problems

Green rooftops cannot replace real forests and parks but they can create small biodiversity oases in highly urbanized areas and contribute to the fight against the climate crisis.