Italy’s president says we must stop pillaging nature to find peace
On the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi, President Sergio Mattarella said the world will not find true peace until humanity stops ransacking the natural world.
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Category: Environment
Global climate strike on Friday
Fridays for Future announced today that marches will take place in 70 Italian cities for the international movement’s global climate strike this Friday. This also happens to be the last day of campaigning for Sunday’s general election in Italy.
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Eleven dead following floods in Marche, Italy
The number of dead has risen to eleven following floods in Marche. The search continued all night for three missing people.
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Italian scientists say year-round summer-time will cut energy costs
Scientists from the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (Sima)are calling on the government to extend daylight saving time (summer-time) to the whole year. This would cut energy bills, reduce pollution and improve people’s health, they said.
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Intense weather phenomena predicted in Italy
The civil protection department has predicted intense weather with violent thunderstorms across central and southern Italy tomorrow.
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Bee SOS: Italian honey harvest halved due to extreme weather in 2022
2022’s climate has seen many extreme events – from drought to storms – which have impacted the Italian honey harvest. Halved from the calculated production potential, the bees are struggling.
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Activists glue themselves to Vatican statue
Activists glue themselves to one of the Vatican Museum’s most famous statues. Italy’s Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) climate crisis action group want to highlight the lack of political will to addess climate issues.
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Legambiente report highlights extreme weather events
Legambiente said in its latest Climate City Observatory report that from 2010 up to July 2022 there had been 1,318 extreme weather events in Italy. Of these 132 (10%) have been in the last six months.
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Scientists urge politicians to prioritise climate in elections
Italy’s leading climate scientists signed an open letter published in Wednesday’s edition of La Repubblica. In it they called on the nation’s political leaders and parties to prioritise action to address the climate emergency.
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Po Drought: Piedmont water reserves run dry
A Piedmont official stated on Tuesday the region has run out of water reserves due to Italy’s severe drought. A Marshall Plan is in preparation by the regional authority to deal with the Piedmont drought.
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