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Sardinia declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to a persistent drought crippling the island and creating a lack of drinking water. The tourism hub has not seen rain for weeks as temperatures in the region continue to rise. The island is expected to see heat of 40 degrees Celsius in the coming days. The announcement was made by the regional council following a session called by President of the autonomous region Alessandra Todde. The provision will remain in force until December 31st. Todde said that “there is an urgent need to resort to first and immediate risk mitigation measures aimed...
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Water reserves are running dry in parts of Italy, leading some politicians to demand urgent action on the climate emergency. “The climate crisis is not ideological, it is a dramatic reality in Sicily,” Angelo Bonelli, spokesperson for the Europa Verde (Green Europe) political party, said while rallying outside government headquarters in Rome on Thursday. “Farmers are uprooting vineyards, citrus groves, they are slaughtering animals because there is no water. This is a disastrous situation.” Condemning the silence of PM Giorgia Meloni on the issue, he said the government is “leaving an entire r...
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California’s biggest wildfire so far this year has killed at least two people and forced thousands to have to evacuate their homes. Vast areas of land have burned with the flames rapidly spreading. The wildfire has tripled in size since it started according to California’s fire service, exploding overnight from 567 hectares on Wednesday to more than 60,000 hectares on Friday morning. Known as the Park Fire, it is believed to have been started by a man accused of pushing a burning car into a ditch. It slid down into the gully and then burst entirely into flames which is thought to have started ...
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Villagers in at least six Romanian counties, Constanța, Alba, Dolj, Iași, Prahova, and Gorj are receiving water rations. Specialists report that water consumption triples during the hot period, overwhelming the capacity of the tanks. Cotnari village in Iasi is struggling with a severe water crisis, leaving thousands of residents with rationed water supply due to prolonged drought and low rainfall. Gheorghe Savin, a local resident, highlighted the dire situation: "We don't have water. It was promised that it would be restricted between 6 am and 9 am. It doesn't flow, not a single drop of water....
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A state of emergency has been declared in Messara, on the Greek island of Crete, as the region grapples with a severe water shortage. The Faneromeni dam, the lifeline of the area for water and irrigation, has seen its levels fall to alarming lows. This crisis was caused by illegal water pumping which resulted in a loss of 3 million cubic meters of water, as well as low rainfall and intense heat. Farmers in Messara are in a desperate situation, facing peak irrigation needs in the middle of the water crisis. One resident said, “There’s a big problem. The heat is relentless and we don’t know if w...
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“Climate is impacting the life of Sicily very strongly,” says Gerardo Diana, a Sicilian farmer, as he gazes at his fields of wheat and beans, which have been completely decimated by a two-year drought. His pride harvest, blood oranges, is also in serious jeopardy, despite Gerardo’s efforts to pump water from underground or from nearby lakes. “This is just survival! Unfortunately, with this long summer, we are also scared of the possibility of the plants to die,” he says. Enduring droughtThis persistent drought is just one of the signs of Sicily’s struggle against the climate crisis, that Euron...
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A cup of coffee could soon become much more expensive due to new coffee production and deforestation rules, according to the chairman of Lavazza, Giuseppe Lavazza. The EU's recently implemented deforestation rules could mean that thousands of farmers' coffee bean exports to the EU could soon be rejected, due to them having been produced on land that was recently deforested. Although the EU's deforestation rules are seen to have good intentions, aimed at preserving forest quality and reducing the impact of deforestation on local communities, several industry leaders fear that they may have been...
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Just weeks after Greece was hit with its earliest ever heatwave in June, parts of the country are facing a new crisis: severe water shortages. A state of emergency has been declared in Sifnos in the Cyclades, Leros in the Dodecanese Islands, Sami in Kefalonia and in parts of Crete. Islanders are demanding urgent intervention as water supplies dry up. Water levels are also low in the peninsula of Attica, which encompasses Athens. On the island of Naxos in the South Aegean, the largest reservoir has dried up due to low rainfall and hot weather, news agency Reuters reports. What’s behind the wate...
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“My community is my inspiration,” says 17-year-old Beyza, an Earth Prize runner-up. “In Türkiye, we are living the effects of climate change. This region was Mesopotamia, where agriculture and civilisation was born, but now people are struggling with climate change and drought.” While many young people march to demand climate action, Beyza has leveraged her scientific mind by developing a “drought-defying plasma-powered crop solution”. “It’s not good to watch when the big governments can solve these issues - but we are trying to do that and not them,” says 18-year-old Diyar, who is working on ...
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Firefighters battled wildfires that broke out on the eastern Aegean islands of Chios and Kos on Monday. The blazes injured five people and Greece's prime minister has warned of a dangerous summer ahead saying the public's help was essential in limiting the impact of wildfires. Emergency services issued evacuation orders for those in the Metohi area of western Chios on Monday morning, urging them to head to a nearby beach. By the evening, more than 140 firefighters, along with eight teams of firefighters specialising in wildfires, seven water-dropping planes and three helicopters were fighting ...
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