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Without the “contribution” of human beings, the heatwave in Europe would have occurred anyway, but the temperature would have been at least 3.5 degrees lower.

This is demonstrated by research from World Weather Attribution, which analyzed climate data from 854 cities in 30 European countries.

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Without even realizing it, Italy has made one of the largest reforestation efforts ever and has officially become a “forest nation.”

For the first time since the Middle Ages, there are more forests than agricultural fields in the area, says the National Union of Municipalities, Communities, and Mountain Entities.
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The remedy against overtourism is the dear, old vacationing

After years of "extractive tourism," a new trend is emerging among travelers: a return to vacationing, to nearby destinations, to holidays where time actually slows down. And one truly rests.
by Micol De Pas
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What is affecting Europe is an extreme weather event called omega block

It is a high-pressure front trapped between two low-pressure systems. Essentially, it is a "dome" of warm air pressed down over the continent.
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In London, they had to cancel an event on extreme heat due to the extreme heat.

An event where the theme was finding a way to survive extreme heat without disrupting daily life.
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In Tasmania, they are installing an artificial monolith that will be the “black box” of the end of the world and the extinction of humanity.

It will work exactly like an airplane's black box, recording the apocalypse day after day.
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According to climatologists, the blame for the heatwave in Europe is not at all on Super El Niño but entirely on human beings.

We are paying the price for years of climate crisis; a single climatic event is not enough to explain the incredible heat of these weeks.
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After laying off nearly 10,000 employees, Zuckerberg has ordered the surviving Meta employees to “start having fun again.”

One might wonder: if an employee refuses and shows up to work in a bad mood, will he be fired too?
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Remote working reduces social interaction and harms mental health, according to one of the largest studies ever on working from home.

Almost 600 thousand workers participated in the research and the results have been quite undeniable.
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Pride cannot and must not be just a party

This edition of Roma Pride was one of the least combative in recent history. Political slogans were almost completely overshadowed by pop songs, perhaps because in recent years we have become accustomed to protest.
by Marco Grieco
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In Japan, everyone is outraged by the “ice cream cartel” scandal, which involves a group of companies that agreed to continuously raise the price of ice cream.

Increases of 6 cents at a time but very frequent and unrelated to the rise in raw material prices. Until the Antitrust authority noticed.
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Every morning in Italy a professor wakes up and knows he will have to think faster than ChatGPT

The proliferation of AI has already changed the way students experience school learning. "The little help" is now widespread and normalized. Teachers have only one option left: to prove that machines are not infallible.
by Gianluca Nativo
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Due to the climate crisis, the world’s most famous tree, the old oak of Sherwood Forest, has died.

The oak tree, which had been growing for at least a thousand years, this year did not produce any leaves due to the increasingly frequent heatwaves and excessive human interventions.
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FIFA wants to cover all brand logos with which it has no commercial agreements in the World Cup stadiums, but there are too many of these logos and it is not succeeding.

And where it succeeded, it achieved a decent comic effect, as in the case of the white cloth placed to cover the Levi's logo at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
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In China, more than 12,000 degree courses have been canceled because AI has made them obsolete.

The cuts have mainly focused (as always in these cases) on the arts and humanities, but there have also been quite a few in foreign languages and business management.
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A study has shown that cycling is so beneficial for body and mind that it should be included in public health policies.

The research includes 87 studies from 19 countries and confirms that the bicycle is one of the most effective tools for improving the quality of life in cities.