Ecology

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What is and how a haboob is formed, the storm of dust and sand that hit Arizona

An image of the Habooob that hit Arizona. Credit: Aaron Rigsby, via X. In Arizonain the United States, about 39,000 people remained without current due to a storm of dust and sand that hit the city of Phoenix. The National Weather Service (the US government agency that deals with weather forecasts) specified that it was a “haboob”, That is one ...

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Strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 off Kamchatka, there is no damage

Less than a month after the violent earthquake of magnitude 8.8 in Kamchatkathe peninsula at the eastern end of Russia was hit today by another violent earthquake of magnitude 6.0 (UGSG data) at hours 15:49 (Local time, in Italy 3:49) with a little epicenter off the coast. The shock recorded a hypocenter about 53.4 km of depth and, at the ...

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Because the grass of the football fields has the strips of different shades of green

The Santiago Bernabeu stadium of Madrid. Credit: لchi روسagon, cc by -sa 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons If you have ever watched a game of soccer On TV, you will have seen that the lawn never appears to be a uniform green. The field, in fact, is divided into great bands rectangular, more clear and more dark. How do you explain ...

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The US nuclear test considered a failure, what happened during the crossroads operation

The crossroads operation of 1946 was carried out by the US government to test the effect of nuclear weapons on an open sea fleet. The plan was to carry out three tests (Able, Baker and Charlie) but the disastrous result of the first two pushed the military leaders to close the operations before expected, simultaneously marking the end of the ...

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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 ...