For more than an hour yesterday fountains of lava and ash over Catania. No danger for people, houses, or villages, as the flows remain within the Bove Valley.
Denialists have always been there, ever since we started talking about global warming. Yet the reality is now before everyone's eyes, amid increasingly extreme natural events, crop losses, endangered animals and the many other effects of climate change. However, influential people…
How is climate change affecting rainfall today? Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have tried to answer this question. To do so, they have developed an innovative approach, based on precipitation weather data from the last century…
The earthworm is certainly not an animal that many people pay attention to. Yet it is one of the most important living things on the planet. Without earthworms, in fact, the soil would not have characteristics suitable for plant growth.…
He was a German naturalist, explorer, geographer and botanist. But above all, he was the pioneering scientist who for the first time observed, documented and analysed climate change over two hundred years ago. We are talking about Alexander von Humboldt.…
By 2100, 90% of the world's population will see food production decline due to climate change. There will therefore be a shortage of food for 9 out of 10 people. How is this possible, and what can we do to…
If you are feeling sad or depressed while you watch the planet change, you may be suffering from solastalgia. This is a psychological discomfort closely related to climate change. What Is Solastalgia? The first person to use the expression "solastalgia"…
We are in the remote tundra of northern Mongolia, in the Saiyan mountains, whose peaks reach 11,500 feet. Here there is a eternal snow bank that the locals call 'munkh mus', but which now risk no longer being eternal. Unfortunately, global…
Among the consequences of global warming is not only the melting of glaciers, or the extinction of many animal species. There is also a substantial and concrete impoverishment of our table. Climate change, in fact, may also have disastrous effects…
A third of our planet's land is at risk of desertification. If no action is taken to stop soil deterioration, those areas may soon no longer be suitable for cultivation. The alarm was launched by the 14th Conference on Desertification,…
We may have underestimated the consequences of sea level rising. At least, that is what a new study published in Nature Communications has shown. According to the two researchers at Princeton who conducted it, this phenomenon could lead to the disappearance…
The survival of millions of people around the world - especially in developing countries - already depends today and will depend increasingly in the near future on the ability to adapt and withstand the impact of climate change. Climate change…
Marshall McLuhan, in his attempt at describing the effects of technology on modern culture, defined modern technologies as an extension of the human body. So, for example, the auto is an extension of our foot. And he did not stop…
There are still people who do not believe that climate change is real. They argue that human activity has no influence on our planet and, when evidence of the actuality of global warming are put in front of them, they…
There has been much talk in the past years about climate change. However, still many people have not realized how the consequences of this phenomenon are influencing our lives. More specifically, climate change has a great impact on many parts…