Italy helped a retailer open chocolate and gelato stores across Asia. The United States offered a loan for a coastal hotel expansion in Haiti. Belgium backed the film “La Tierra Roja,” a love story set in the Argentine rainforest. And Japan is financing a new coal plant in Bangladesh and...
ROME, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Extreme weather has dealt a devastating blow to Italy's olive oil sector, slashing production by 57 percent. Some expert said it is most likely turning Italy -- usually the world's second leading producer of olive oil -- into a net importer. The latest olive ...
DIMITRI: I come from Greece. HANS: What's the climate like in your country? DIMITRI: It's very pleasant. Hans: What's the weather like in spring? DIMITRI: It's often windy in March. It's always warm in April and May, but it rains sometimes. HANS: What's it like in summer? DI...
China, since mid-2010 the world's second biggest economy and tipped to become the biggest in a few decades, has tremendous climatic and ecological diversity. The likely impact of China's economic expansion on the global climate has been extensively studi
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13 March 2020 Introduction The ability of forests to mitigate climate change depends on how well they cope and adapt to the rapid forecasted changes in atmospheric conditions, including pollutant emissions from anthropogenic activities , namely CO2, sulphur (S) and reactive nitrogen (N). While sulph...
At the end of the last glaciations, European oaks were restricted to three major refugia (southern Iberian peninsula, central Italy, and southern Balkan peninsula). As glacial periods lasted up to 100000 years, species were most likely genetically differentiated among these refugial zones, as ...
ROME, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The dangers of climate change are no longer just a matter of opinion, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told an environmentalist conference in Rome on Saturday. The day-long event titled "Pact for Climate -- Together for Italy" was organized by Insieme (Toget...
et al. Increased heat risk in wet climate induced by urban humid heat. Nature 617, 738–742 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05911-1 Download citation Received24 August 2022 Accepted01 March 2023 Published26 April 2023 Issue Date25 May 2023 DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-...
(Abruzzo, Italy) to predict communities’ dynamics under future climate change scenarios. The Majella Massif is a unique site to test the effects of climate on cryptogam and plant communities since it is the southernmost Mediterranean mountain with an alpine and subalpine belt in Italy, hosting ...