Ecology

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Can strong earthquakes cause volcanic eruptions? Let’s clarify

A few minutes after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that took place on 29 July in Kamchatka, Russia, the eruption of the Vulcano Klyuchevskoylocated about 450 km north from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamcatsky. In addition, another eruption of the volcano also occurred on 4 August Krasheninnikovwhich shows new signs of activity after several centuries of quiescence. In the face of this ...

rivolte città

Why have the most young countries have more internal riots?

Companies in which the population is composed largely of youngUnlike Italy, which is in 5th place in the oldest countries in the world, they often tend to live protests, insurrections And contestation movements: It happens for example in areas such as sub -Sasaharan Africa, the Middle East and some regions of Latin America. Several social studies suggest that the young ...

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The largest uranium extraction project under the ordos basin: China produces the first barrel

Credit: CNNC China has reached a new goal in the sector mining And energywith the production of first barrel of uranium from the sedimentary deposits of the Ordos basinin the Mongolia internal, as communicated by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). These are the first results of the demonstration project “National No. 1 uraiium“, which aims to expand the production of ...

Peso poli equatore

Why do we weigh more to the poles than to the equator?

You can really weigh more or less Based on the place where you are? Yeseven if little. Let’s assume that we make a truly unusual journey: we take a plane to the equator and cross the northern hemisphere to reach the North Pole. But first we have to weigh us And then once landed, always with the same scale (since ...

la redistribuzione dei redditi in italia

The redistribution of income in Italy: what it means and how to reduce inequalities

The distribution of income in Italy presents strong inequalities: the state, through tax and welfare policies, aims to reduce these economic differences through one redistribution of income. But how much do these regulatory interventions really impact? The most recent Istat data allow us to objectively measure their effect on income inequalities through the Gini index. How the differences in income ...