Wildfires were burning in at least nine countries across the Mediterranean on Tuesday as blazes spread in Croatia, Italy and Portugal, with thousands of firefighters…
View More ‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countriesTag: Italy
European heatwave: red alerts issued for 16 cities in Italy
Sixteen cities across Italy have been issued with red alerts as southern Europe continues to experience fierce heat and faces the possibility of record-breaking temperatures.…
View More European heatwave: red alerts issued for 16 cities in ItalyHealth alerts issued as blistering heat scorches southern Europe
A ferocious heatwave inflamed by carbon pollution is baking southern Europe, posing severe health risks to older people and those with underlying health conditions. Scorching…
View More Health alerts issued as blistering heat scorches southern EuropeItaly’s disasters suggest the climate crisis is at the gates of Europe
This week, parts of northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region received half their average annual rainfall in just 36 hours. Rivers burst their banks and thousands of…
View More Italy’s disasters suggest the climate crisis is at the gates of EuropeThree sections of Roman wall in City of London given protected status
Three sections of a huge but little-known Roman wall, discovered under the City of London, have been given protected status as scheduled national monuments. The…
View More Three sections of Roman wall in City of London given protected statusMany Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle, shows poll
Many Europeans are alarmed by the climate crisis and would willingly take personal steps and back government policies to help combat it, a survey suggests…
View More Many Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle, shows poll‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens
The scenes are rare enough in mid-summer; in early March, they are unprecedented. Lac de Montbel in south-west France is more than 80% empty, the…
View More ‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsensFragments of ‘Valentine’s fireball’ meteorite fall in southern Italy
Residents of southern Italy’s picturesque and ancient “city of stone” have been gripped by another rocky phenomenon after a meteorite crash-landed on the balcony of…
View More Fragments of ‘Valentine’s fireball’ meteorite fall in southern Italy‘It’s as if we found oil’: Tuscan town savours discovery of spa trove
Since she was a child, Martina Canuti has been venturing down the steep hill flanking the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni, known by…
View More ‘It’s as if we found oil’: Tuscan town savours discovery of spa trove‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world
An iceberg threatens a village in Greenland, July 2018, Magnus Kristensen For a week in July 2018, a giant 100m-tall iceberg loomed over a tiny…
View More ‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world