Desertification in alarming increase
It is estimated from the data of a new study that one billion and two hundred thousand people and an area of about one and a half billion hectares larger as the size of Antarctica is affected by desertification with unreassuring forecasts for the future. To cope with desertification, almost two hundred countries recently attended a COP16 conference in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, but with little results about the discussions held by the United Nations to combat desertification (UNCCD) and this after a whole series of conferences for example on biodiversity in Colombia, on reducing the use of plastic in South Korea, on the financing of countries affected by climate change in Azerbaijan with in practice little light and many shadows. Needless to say that without interventions the fertile soil it will become progressively less and less productive and this will have significant consequences on the displacement of populations and the cost of food.
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Date: Dec 21, 2024
n°: 5831
Prohibition for e-cigarettes sale in Vietnam
Satisfaction in Vietnam of many parents of children who smoke e-cigarettes about the ban on the sale from next year in the country of these e-cigarettes that were spreading very quickly especially in a young audience that often smokes outside schools exposing those nearby to secondhand smoke, then seem to smoke even in hospitals where it is forbidden. The e-cigarette stores in Vietnam were multiplying and with the ban on sales there are fears that it could be circumvented by the black market, so a well-planned strategy should be adopted on the different aspects by combining the stringent measures to the sales restrictions with targeted reinforcement measures so that they can really be effective for this complex sector and that represents a real challenge.
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Date: Dec 20, 2024
n°: 5830
Emergency in California for H5N1 avian flu
After the severe case of avian influenza, Louisiana (linkable with partial genetic examination to wild birds and farmed poultry) California declared a state of health emergency for avian influenza H5N1 for the spread of cases in farms, but health authorities would have stated that the risk for humans remains low and cases of person-to-person infections have not been documented. To prevent cases of H5 avian influenza, it is necessary to reduce exposure to saliva, mucus and feces of animals as much as possible. To report by changing the subject but remaining on healthy issues that the health authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared that the mysterious disease (one hundred and forty-three victims in November) circulating in the south-west of the province of Kwango is actually a severe form of malaria, but some say that further investigations should be carried out on cases.
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Date: Dec 19, 2024
n°: 5829
Strong earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands
A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook the islands of the Pacific Vanuato causing several victims, collapsing buildings, bridges, covering of rubble and debris the roads affected by the earthquake followed by a replica of magnitude 5.5 and then aftershocks and prolonged seismic swarm; then there is talk of significant damage in the capital Port Vila including the nearby areas. A bus has been overwhelmed by a landslide and most likely there will be victims, the cellular telephone network is out of service and we try to organize the rescue and bring help with international support. To report by changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues that the cyclone "Chido" that after lashing the Mayotte archipelago has caused significant damage also in Mozambique, it is a very poor area and the fragile houses have sometimes collapsed or are seriously damaged, then lacks food and water.
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Date: Dec 18, 2024
n°: 5828
Artificial Intelligence for the school advertised
Despite the unfavorable opinion of experts who have serious doubts about the use of artificial intelligence in the school activities of applications supported by artificial intelligence it seems that they are increasingly advertised also in order to make them use more and more by the various administrations in the world with typical marketing campaigns. This sector (Ed tech) had a considerable boost during the Covid-19 pandemic with millions of children forced to stay at home using video learning systems, then with the reopening of schools companies seem to have tried to continue to promote their applications adding the artificial intelligence. Some say that in addition to increasing inequality are more the new problems that can be linked to the use of these technologies than the real benefits for students, then they probably won't solve the many challenges the future will present.
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Date: Dec 17, 2024
n°: 5827
A cyclone lashes the Mayotte in the Indian Ocean
The authorities of the French territory of the Mayotte in the Indian Ocean east of Africa (five hundred kilometers west of Mozambique) fear that there are hundreds of victims due to the cyclone "Chido"; two for now the confirmed victims, but many buildings are very damaged or destroyed so the hypotheses speak of a very heavy death toll, perhaps even thousands, there is talk of uprooted trees, lack of electricity and water. The three hundred and twenty thousand residents of the poor territory had been warned to close themselves in the house to avoid the gusts of wind at over two hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. To report changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues an ecological disaster in the Strait of Kerch near the Black Sea where an oil tanker sank for a storm and another is damaged, the authorities investigates the incident and tries to face the situation.
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Date: Dec 16, 2024
n°: 5826
A line of credit for Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
To be able to recover from devastating climate disasters with storms, cloudbursts and floods, the small islands of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago would need a credit line to finance reconstruction, but the rules of finance put them in an unfavorable position (this, as for all countries, must be achieved over the years by keeping the accounts in order) which makes them even more vulnerable. A global trading system should be proposed that takes into account climate change adaptation; then only thirteen out of thirty-nine small islands have a financial quotation, most of them low, and countries such as Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines do not have it at all. Sustainable growth requires financial balancing if we do not want to penalise countries affected by climate change, often without causing it.
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Date: Dec 14, 2024
n°: 5825
Series of natural disasters in areas east of Java
The Indonesian authorities are reportedly planning the measures to be taken to deal with a series of natural disasters (floods, landslides, high waves on the coasts and even a weak earthquake) that have affected areas in East Java in the last two weeks, there is talk of hundreds of people evacuated, four victims, dozens of schools damaged or even collapsed in eleven districts in the regency of Cianjur; the Cibeber district was particularly affected with significant damage. Also for Indonesia it should be noted that a study carried out in California would have highlighted the importance of mangroves in protecting the coasts from the increasingly marked erosion caused by rising sea levels and storms; in fact, a large amount of money saved by planting mangroves has been calculated with economic and environmental benefits even greater than those obtained with man-made defenses.
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Date: Dec 13, 2024
n°: 5824
Worrying transformation of the Arctic tundra
The surface temperatures of the air monitored in one year in the Arctic tundra would have reached a record that places them in second place since 1900 in this not very positive ranking of warming, so much so that there is talk of a dramatic transformation with frequent fires with the release of large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere and while for millennia the frozen soil has retained these powerful climate-changing gases, now it tends to release them; so this could worsen the situation from the point of view of climate change. Obviously what happens in the Arctic tundra does not remain confined to that scenario, but has global consequences even if there could also be a secondary effect given by the absorption of carbon linked to the growth of vegetation which then overheats the air with a subsequent further increase in temperatures.
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Date: Dec 12, 2024
n°: 5823
Fire with evacuations in Malibu, California
Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in Malibu, California due to a fire that is difficult to control by firefighters that has already burned several houses and is advancing rapidly, affected by the fires even sumptuous villas that dot the well-known United States resort. There is talk of warnings given house to house to urgently hurry to evacuate because the fire front is imposing fed by rather dry vegetation due to climate change, then in over a thousand hectares the fire would be out of control also due to the not very uniform hilly conformation of the territory. There has been little attention to fire prevention for decades so much so that flammable material would have accumulated, so fires tend to advance faster with high flames, temperatures are higher and they are more destructive.
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Date: Dec 11, 2024
n°: 5822
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