January
ISPRA's Hydro-Meteo-Sea Forecasting System: operational implementations in the environmental field, research applications and development lines
Jan 27, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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The Hydro-Meteo-Sea Forecasting System (SIMM), which became operational at the beginning of 2000, was designed with the aim of providing meteorological and meteo-marine forecasts in an area, that of the Mediterranean, characterized by the interaction of various phenomena on a range of scales ranging from km to the synoptic scale.
World Wetlands day
Feb 02, 2022
On February 2, World Wetlands Day to increase awareness on the important role that these areas have for the people and the Plante. The wetland, such as lagoons, are between the environment most productive, with an high level of biological diversity. Also this year the LIFE Lagoon Refresh project continues its restoration actions in an area of the northern lagoon of Venice to re-establish the saline gradient and improve the quality and conservation status of the lagoon habitats and the species that live there. The project Life Lagoon Refresh - Coastal lagoon habitat (1150*) and species recovery by restoring the salt gradient increasing fresh water input started in September 2017 and will end in 5 years. To date, the project is moving towards an end, the concrete actions are completed, while the reed bed transplantation and monitoring activities are still in progress. The monitoring results show a change in the project area: the saline gradient, the key objective of the project, has been restored; flora and fauna are responding to the change in salinity. ISPRA and the University of Venice continue to collect data to verify if the objectives of the project have been achieved.
Will the abandonment of single-use plastic serve to free the Sicilian seabed from waste?
From 14 January 2022 the sale of single-use plastic products is prohibited, will this serve to improve the situation of the seabed in Sicily? How does the waste finish into the sea? How has the Italian situation changed from 2019 to today? An ISPRA researcher, guest of MedicalExcellence TV, talked about all this topic.
ISPRA experts participated at the Glaswgow conference
ISPRA participated in the work of COP26 in the Italian technical delegation. The overall evaluation of the results is essentially positive, but it is necessary not to lower the ambition of the targets and to rapidly implement them. The role of technicians in supporting decision makers is fundamental.
Map of the Nature
Map of the Nature is a national project for land management and environmental protection. These are cartographic products and on Italian ecosystems and terrestrial habitats, inserted in a Territorial Information System of public utility,
15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15): a new Strategic Plan to combat the loss of Biodiversity
Two years late, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be held this year in Kunming-China, the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol of Cartagena on Biosafety (COP-MOP10) and the 4th meeting of the Conference of the Parties which serves as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya-ABS Protocol (COP-MOP4).