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From green to grey. Every second 2.3 square meters of Italy lose color. 20 hectares per day are fading. In all of 2023, 72.5 square kilometers went from looking natural to the drab shade of concrete. The march of roads, roofs, car parks, construction sites and warehouses has proceeded inexorably since, in 2006, Ispra began regular monitoring of land consumption in Italy. Two square meters disappeared per second, Italy devoured by concrete https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/03/news/ispra_consumo_suolo_popolazione-423805716/?rss

Major Asian chip stocks outside of China rose Tuesday, shrugging off a new round of U.S. semiconductor export curbs on Beijing aimed at impairing the country’s capability to produce certain high-end chips.  

In Northern Ireland we are making our own strides toward net zero, with industry professionals leading change to create a more sustainable future for generations to come. But with the built environment contributing to over a third of the world’s carbon emissions, there is much to be done. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) recently published its 2024 global sustainability report, and whilst surveyors indicated that occupier and investor demand for sustainable buildings increased over the past year, there are many barriers in adopting sustainable construction practices. Looking at factors deemed to be holding back the industry, high initial…

Harvey Weinstein was hospitalised Monday following an “alarming blood test,” his lawyer said, less than a week after the disgraced movie mogul filed a legal claim alleging substandard medical care at New York City’s notorious jail complex Rikers Island. Weinstein, 72, was sent to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for an “emergent treatment due to an alarming blood test result that requires immediate medical attention,” his lawyer Imran Ansari said in a statement. “It is expected that he will remain there until his condition stabilises.” Mr Ansari added: “His deprivation of care is not only medical malpractice, but a violation of…

US President-elect Donald Trump will attend the weekend reopening of the restored Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, which was ravaged by a 2019 fire, he said Monday, December 2.

  The world was quiet from this height. The air was crisp. Cumulonimbus clouds, drifting away toward Montmartre, revealed the blue of the sky. A gull cried, flying upstream along the Seine. Following the brisk steps of Philippe Jost, the man heading the public agency Rebâtir Notre-Dame (“Rebuilding Notre-Dame”), we passed through the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral, crossed the attic, walked along the magnificent fully reconstructed wooden frame and finally climbed the narrow spiral staircase leading to the very heart of the spire. From this solitary vantage point, the scale of the work achieved unfolded before us. Beneath our feet,…

The public bathrooms, actually private, at the Atocha station and so many other stations make me very angry. They relax, there is soft music and warm light, curved and shiny finishes. You could die in them. Above all, they are very clean, as station bathrooms usually are, as squalid as trenches. You pay a euro to cool off or do those secret things that we all do. A euro that not everyone can or wants to pay. A big piss for pissing. Neoliberal capitalism manages to make everything profitable, even the excretory system: cash from piss. This privatization of bathrooms,…

EC threatened his own boss with the sexual assault complaint that he then directed against another colleague, and which has already been filed Read The ‘Tecnocasa raped woman’ is condemned for threatening her boss, who had just fired her, with accusing him of a false sexual assault as revenge

The Jaguar brand wants to reinvent itself and has caused irritation with a campaign that does not contain any cars. A spectacular show car has now been unveiled in Miami, which is intended to provide a preview of future models. The strikingly long front hood is a clear reminiscence of the E-Type, the legendary sports car that celebrated its premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in 1961 and even counted Enzo Ferrari among its admirers. Otherwise, it takes a bit of imagination to recognize the show car, which was unveiled on Monday evening against a pink backdrop in Miami’s design…

More and more women are withdrawing from local politics, and the reason is also bad hostility: Ricarda Lang and Dorothee Bär complain about this on ARD – and explain how they themselves deal with insults. “Tough but fair”: Ricarda Lang and Dorothee Bär warn of the dangers of online hate comments