Rainfall is down 40% since 2003 and experts predict a third of Sicily will be desert by 2030
“The desert is encroaching across Sicily, the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean, where a European temperature high of 48.8C was recorded in 2021. Rainfall is down by more than 40% since 2003. In the last six months of 2023, just 150mm of rain fell.”
Fonte: The Guardian
Autore: Lorenzo Tondo
Link: ‘We can’t let the animals die’: drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future
