THE’CNR Institute for Bioeconomy (CNR-IBE) has certified that thesummer 2026 is the hottest in Italy since 1950 until todayousting the historic record of 2003 from the podium. In the collective imagination of Italians, the summer of 2003 has represented for over twenty years the absolute yardstick for defining extreme heat, …
UN abandons Mercator map: the true dimensions of Africa and the world according to Equal Earth
In the background, the map proposed by Equal Earth. In yellow, the Mercator projection. Looking at a world map hanging on a classroom wall, Greenland seems huge, about the size of all of Africa, but that’s an illusion. In fact, there are fourteen “Greenlands” in Africa. This is not the …
Google uses AI to make weather forecasts more accurate: what the new WeatherNext3 model does
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. Check the weather forecast on the smartphone it is now an almost automatic gesture: just open an app to find out if in the next few hours it will rain, it will be hot or you will need to bring an umbrella …
