Rome is the municipality with the most hectares of greenery in Europe, with villas, nature reserves and farms within the urban perimeter.
Climate change is incontrovertibly evident by observing public green spaces.
Drought and scorching heat force trees to drop their leaves in summer. And the lack of water contributes to increasing the risk of fires, which are increasingly frequent.
The fall of the leaves in the summer period requires a great compensatory effort by the plants, which will be forced to recreate a whole new vegetation in time for the autumn months which, however, will lose again when the cold arrives. This unexpected effort impacts on the longevity of plants, including very ancient monumental trees.
On the other hand, more and more often in recent years there have been such intense rainfall concentrated in a very short period of time, as to cause flooding and uprooting. The so-called cloudburst.
These images show the effects of fires and floods in Rome's parks.
Climate change is incontrovertibly evident by observing public green spaces.
Drought and scorching heat force trees to drop their leaves in summer. And the lack of water contributes to increasing the risk of fires, which are increasingly frequent.
The fall of the leaves in the summer period requires a great compensatory effort by the plants, which will be forced to recreate a whole new vegetation in time for the autumn months which, however, will lose again when the cold arrives. This unexpected effort impacts on the longevity of plants, including very ancient monumental trees.
On the other hand, more and more often in recent years there have been such intense rainfall concentrated in a very short period of time, as to cause flooding and uprooting. The so-called cloudburst.
These images show the effects of fires and floods in Rome's parks.