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• Hurricane Helene: over 200 victims estimated in six states. The probable causes.
• Goodbye to remote working? Amazon returns to the office
• The perfect dog: choosing the ideal dog breed for your lifestyle
• How Ferragosto began: Italians’ best-loved summer holiday, between history and faith
• Bologna Città 30: the first figures arrive from the council
• Super tuskers at risk: lifting the hunting ban threatens long-tusked elephants
• Italy is a country full of PFAS. A petition to the government to finally ban their use
• A world without butterflies? After the bees, a prospect that disturbs and alarms
• Children can no longer concentrate? Air pollution is partly to blame
• Xylella: where do we stand?
• Penguins in danger: their natural food is ‘plundered’ by industrial fishing

  Extinction of South African penguins – the only species found across the whole continent – is a serious risk. Their numbers have fallen by more than 99% over the last 120 years. At the current rate of decline (7.9% a year), the species – the only African penguin – is estimated to become extinct in the wild by 2035.

• The world’s most sustainable nation has no green party