This week the 5 good news also concerns us up close: Italy, in fact, is confirmed between European countries with the highest expectation of life in good health. Even in the rest of the world, some things are improving: in the United States the murderer rate collapsed by 14% in one year, while in Barcelona a bus fed with Biomethane produced from wastewater came into operation. In the meantime, in the largest lake of Kashmir, lotus flowers have spontaneously growing again after more than 30 years that did not happen.
Therefore, our appointment with 5 good news from Italy and the world is back, so as to regain some hope.
- 1 Italy among the first EU countries for health life expectancy
- 2ness uses murderer rate dropped by 15% in 2024
- 3In Kashmir regricts lotus flowers after more than 30 years
- 4A Barcelona A bus use Biomethane produced by wastewater
- 5ne Senna increase the pike specimens after the remediation of the river
Italy among the first EU countries for health life expectancy
On average, Italians live in good health up to 69 years of age: this is what emerges from the last report published by the Eurostat, in which our country is confirmed as among the first in the EU for health life expectancy. The data, referring to 2023, indicate a good health expectation (understood as the period in which a person does not suffer from particular health problems related to age of age) equal to 69.6 years for the female population and 68.5 years for the male counterpart.
Better than us only Malta (who has just over 500,000 inhabitants), with a expectation of 71.1 for women and 71.7 for men. At European level, however, the expectation of good health stops at just 63 years for women and 62 for men.
Clearly, these data are closely linked to the increase in life expectancy, which in 2024 in Italy reached 83.4 years (85.5 years for women and 81.4 years for men), according to the latest Istat data.
The planned number of years of life in health is higher for women in 17 of the EU countries: it must be said, however, that according to Eurostat’s surveys, the years more experienced by women tend to be characterized by a greater limitation of physical activities.
In the USA Murder Tasso dropped by 15% in 2024
According to a report on national security just published by the FBI, the homicide rate in the United States dropped by 14.9% in 2024, with a general drop in violent crimes of 4.5% compared to the previous year. The damage to private property (-8%) and the robberies (-9%) also dropped, now close to the lowest rate of the last 20 years. The FBI then recorded a general improvement of public safety, after the peak of the Momicides recorded the Pandemia of Covid-19.
However, it must be emphasized that in the United States this index remains particularly high, especially if compared to other countries of the world: in 2024, in fact, about 5 murders were recorded per 100,000 inhabitants in 2024, a value clearly higher than that of nearby Canada, where the rate is approximately 1.98 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, but compared to Italy, where last year there were 0.54 victims of murder per 100,000 inhabitants. The data recorded in the US in 2024, however, is the lowest of the last 9 years.
In Kashmir they recreate lotus flowers after more than 30 years
In Lake Wlar, one of the largest in all of Asia, lotus flowers have returned to grow spontaneously after more than 30 years. The lake is located in the Kashmir valley, about 30 km from the city of Srinagar, at the foot of the Himalaya. Originally, this area was known precisely due to the presence of high quality lotus flowers, whose stems were used by the population as ingredients of traditional dishes.
Then, in 1992, the region was hit by several floods, which suffocated the lake bed with the silt, sweeping away the lotus plants and taking their disappearance for more than three decades. In 2020, the Wular Conservation and Management Authority (Wucma) started a restoration and remediation program of the lake, removing the waste transported by the Jhelum river and its tributaries.
Five years of hard work have given their fruits and lotus flowers have returned to grow spontaneously, partially restoring the local economy: not being able to market the lotus plants, in fact, the population had tried to convert to fishing, with poor results.
In Barcelona a bus uses Biomethane produced by wastewater
In Barcelona it took five years of work before being able to bring into operation a new bus powered with the biomethane, produced starting from the wastewater (the waters of the city sewer network, where about 1.5 million inhabitants live): the means of transport has been integrated into the fleet of the V3 line and is able to travel about 14,000 km per year with the biomethane, reducing 80% of carbon dioxide emissions (equal to 28 Tons of CO2 less) compared to other similar models powered with natural gas.
The initiative is part of the Life Nimbus project, co -financed by the European Life program (which finishes several projects in the EU born to produce Biomethane starting from the waste water) and managed by Veolia, the company responsible for the distribution of water in the Catalan city, together with the TMB transport company and the autonomous university of Barcelona.
In the Seine, the pike specimens increase after the remediation of the river
After the reclamation operations that made the Seine again bathing again, the Parisian river is repopulating some fish species that had abandoned it, including the pike. In the annual census of the fish present in the Seine, in fact, some specimens were found for the first time since the 70s, when the nitrogen concentrations and phosphorus in the Seine increased drastically due to waste water discharges.
The pike, among other things, is also considered a “umbrella species”: being a predator at the height of the food chain, in fact, its return and the greater protection of this species will imply the conservation of all the species below.
