Paola Bonfante è una delle più importanti studiose di simbiosi fra le piante, le loro radici, i funghi e la miriade di microrganismi che popolano il terreno. Con lei abbiamo parlato del suo libro "Una pianta non è un’isola" e abbiamo scoperto che sotto i nostri piedi le piante si "parlano", si scambiano messaggi chimici e nutrienti in una fitta rete che qualcuno ha voluto chiamare "Wood Wide Web", l’internet del mondo vegetale.
Disputes and legal actions concerning climate change are on the rise, as are those aimed at obtaining compensation for damages caused by specific atmospheric events from parties believed to be responsible. This is a result of the findings of attribution science, a discipline aimed at clarifying the causal relationship between the occurrence of extreme weather events and climate change.
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In an article from ten years ago, addressing the issue of climate litigations, the legal disputes concerning climate change, the author noted that most of them were brought against governments to introduce limits or controls on greenhouse gas emitting activities or against companies involved in their production (especially oil multinationals) to comply with existing regulations.
