Ecology

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What are expropriations and how they work

The expropriation is a legal procedure used by the Italian State, or by other public bodies, for the realization of public works or, more generally, cope with needs of public utility. Represents the way in which the state becomes the owner of something not his and can concern any indiscriminately Well immobile present in the area and is regulated by ...

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The boulder of Newall of Stonehenge was modeled by man, not transported by glaciers

Stonehenge. Credit: Garethwiscombe, via Wikimedia Commons Many things are still not clear of the story of stonehengethe famous English archaeological site dating back to the Neolithic and composed of a circle of erect stones. But a mystery seems clarified: the origin of the “blue stones”. Recent analyzes have shown that the little one “boulder of Newall“, Long considered a glacial ...

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As the bridge in China collapsed, the technical analysis of the accident: interview with the open

The bridge collapsed in China Credit: NFSC Red Leaf Canada, via X. In the north-western province of Qinghaiin China, an arc bridge has collapsed during the construction phase: the accident caused the death of 12 workerswhile 4 are still missing. The infrastructure should have been completed by the end of August, becoming the largest double -track continuous railway bridge in ...

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Because on the highway there are so many oleanders: from road safety to biodiversity

Graphic representation generated with IA. The reasons why trees of oleander They are manifold. The main ones have to do with the road safety: being poisonous, the oleanders they keep animals at a distancewho instinctively do not approach and, therefore, do not cross the roadway. In addition, oleanders can act as natural barrier in the event of an accident. Other ...

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When the Sahara was an ocean: the incredible Wadi al Hitan whale valley

View on Wadi al Hitan. In the foreground the fossilized spine of a basilosauride. Credit: Guy DeBonnet, CC By -SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Few know that in Egyptamong the dunes of the desertthere is one of the sites paleontological most important in the world, or “Wadi al Hitan“(In Arabic the”Valle delle Balene“), where the fossilized bones of ancient marine ...

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Study ethology, the science that studies animal comprehening

You are looking at Science dialogues Don’t miss other content of Geopop When we think about working in contact with the animal worldprobably the first thing that comes to mind is to study veterinary, or rather veterinary medicine. Not everyone instead knows the world of ethologythat is, that science that studies the animal behaviorof the relationship between different individuals of ...

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Communicating and writing with the threads: the incredible language of the quipu in pre -Columbian peru

A quipup kept at the Cleveland Museum in the United States. Credit: Clevelandart.org In the For pre -Columbian There was a very effective way to take into account important numerical information such as accounting, the passage of time, taxes and censuses: i Quiup(or KIPU), term that in the native language of the Peruvian plateaus, the quechualiterally means “node“. The Inca ...