Roberta Fabbrocino

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I’m an environmental journalist and copywriter. When I’m not writing about climate change, sustainability, and circular economy, you can find me sipping tea and spending time with my cat. I’m always reading or talking about history.

Favourite quote

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all” (Emily Dickinson)

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Midlatitude winter anomalies could become less predictable, study shows

The Arctic-midlatitude teleconnection will become a less reliable predictor of midlatitude winter anomalies in a warmer future.

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Rosebank would breach UK’s climate targets, new analysis reveales

Rosebank and other fields would push the UK’s oil and gas industry almost 40 percent past its carbon budget

UN Secretary-General warns of the “era of global boiling”

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Oil and gas production in the GOM has a heavier impact that previously believed

The climate impact of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico’s oil and gas production could be higher than government inventories indicate.

The UN General Assembly adopts climate justice resolution

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution seeking the ICJ for an advisory opinion on the duties of States concerning climate change.

The Arctic sea might be seasonally ice-free earlier than we thought

The Arctic sea ice’s near future might look different than we thought. A new study focused on the near future of the ice in the Arctic region.

This Canada’s wildfire season is record-breaking and set to continue

Canada’s wildfire season this year is impacting air quality way beyond the borders of the North American state, reaching as far as Europe.

Over 120 lawyers vow not to prosecute climate activists

A group of more than 120 leading lawyers have pledged not to work for new fossil fuel projects or prosecute the members of environmental organizations.

What is the EU’s Directive on Green Claims?

On 22 March 2023, the European Commission advanced a Proposal for a Directive on Green Claims to address misleading sustainability claims and greenwashing.

New report reveals the dangers of deep-sea mining

Deep-sea mining (DSM) could lead to irreversible damage to marine biodiversity and exacerbate the climate crisis, a new report has revealed.

Global bottled water sales exceed 1 million per minute

A new UNU-INWEH report on the global bottled water industry reveals the massive scale of this market and the lack of strict quality controls.