Italy’s president and his counterparts in five European countries have demanded urgent moves to tackle the climate crisis after scorching heatwaves, wildfires and flooding.
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Only 13 countries of the world had healthy air quality in 2022
Only 13 of the world’s countries and territories had healthy air quality last year as air pollution surged to alarming levels in 2022. The report by IQAir, a company that tracks air quality worldwide, found that average annual air pollution in roughly 90% of the countries and territories analyzed exceeded the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines, which are designed to help governments craft regulations to protect public health.
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Fifth body found in Sicily yacht wreck
A fifth body has been found in the search for those missing from the Bayesian superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily earlier in the week. It had been located on the yacht but has not yet been recovered or identified. The news comes after four bodies were found by divers earlier Wednesday.
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July hit a crucial warming threshold
The world got its first preview last month of what summer will be like at 1.5 degrees of global warming, a threshold that scientists warn the planet should stay under, yet one that it has flown increasingly close to in recent years. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported Tuesday that the average global temperature in July, the hottest month on record by far, was around 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era that ended in the mid-to-late 1800s.
