Ecology

Stop renewing identity cards for the over 70s: all the news on documents and passports from 2026

Stop renewing identity cards for the over 70s: all the news on documents and passports from 2026

THE citizens over the age of 70 they will no longer have to renew there identity card: this is what was announced by the Minister of Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillowhich anticipated the content of the new “Simplification Decree”, which will be discussed in Parliament in the next few days. In short, starting from 2026 there will be some important news ...

Partial collapse of the newly inaugurated Hongqi Bridge: the technical sequence of events

Partial collapse of the newly inaugurated Hongqi Bridge: the technical sequence of events

Frame of the moment of the collapse of the Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan in south-eastern China. Credit: @capitanbitcoin, via In the last few days, the images of partial collapse of the Hongqi Bridgelocated in the province of Sichuan (south-eastern China) and 758 meters long, are making the rounds on the web. The videos show with impressive clarity the triggering of ...

New IT-Alert test in Veneto on November 13th: what time and where does the alarm message sound

New IT-Alert test in Veneto on November 13th: what time and where does the alarm message sound

New IT–Alert tests in Veneto for the risk of a “significant industrial accident” in the Pometon factory in Martellago. Credit: IT–Alert Today 13 November, in Veneto, there will be a new round of tests IT-Alert after the tests in Emilia-Romagna and Trentino-Alto Adige last month: the simulation of the public warning system will affect the Pometon spa plant in Martellagoin ...

The "Lucifer" bee with horns discovered in Australia: why the new species is important

The “Lucifer” bee with horns discovered in Australia: why the new species is important

The Megachile bee discovered in Australia. Credit: Prendergast KS, Campbell JW (2025) Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), a new megachilid with demon–like horns that visits the Critically Endangered Marianthus aquilonaris (Pittosporaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. A new species of hymenopteracalled “Lucifer bee” (Megachile Lucifer) for its convex horns on the front of the head (called clypeus), was discovered in Australia ...

Weekend sniping tourists in Sarajevo, investigation into Italians in Milan: what the death safari in Bosnia was

Weekend sniping tourists in Sarajevo, investigation into Italians in Milan: what the death safari in Bosnia was

There Milan Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into a chilling case that brings to mind the infamous “Sniper Avenue” in Sarajevo, the city besieged from 1992 to 1996 by the Bosnian Serb militias after the Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia. It was a long avenue that ran through the center of the capital, connecting the airport and the western ...

Everything we know about the crash of the Turkish military plane: why there is talk of sabotage

Everything we know about the crash of the Turkish military plane: why there is talk of sabotage

A Turkish military cargo plane Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed on the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan while on its way to Turkey with 20 people on board: the dynamics of the accident, which occurred yesterday 11 November, have not yet been clarified by the Turkish authorities, who have started an investigation into the disaster and this morning confirmed the death ...

The "green mummy" of Bologna: the origin of the unusual color discovered after almost 40 years

The “green mummy” of Bologna: the origin of the unusual color discovered after almost 40 years

Generated with AI Forty years ago, in 1987inside the underground of a villa of Bolognaone was discovered copper funerary cistcontaining gods partially mummified human remains, green in color. The particular color of the body is due to the copper that contained it: copper ionsproduced by metal corrosion, they interacted with bones and tissuesand the humid, oxygen-poor environment favored saponification and ...

The Northern Lights return to the skies of Italy due to a "severe" geomagnetic storm G4

The Northern Lights return to the skies of Italy due to a “severe” geomagnetic storm G4

Northern Lights spotted by the webcam of Plan de Corones, in Trentino–Alto Adige, in the early hours of November 12, 2025. The show of Northern Lights it returned to illuminate the Italian skies on the night of November 12, 2025 with numerous sightings between 4 and 5 am especially along the Alpine arcfrom Piedmont to Trentino-Alto Adige. Webcams and enthusiasts ...