Ecology

The heating will be turned on from tomorrow 15 October: the calendar with zones, regions and times

The heating will be turned on from tomorrow 15 October: the calendar with zones, regions and times

From tomorrow 15 October heating will be turned on in much of Northern Italy. Heaters on in much of the Northern Italy from tomorrow, October 15, 2026: like every year, the switch-on date of the heating systems changes depending on the climate of each region and the average seasonal temperatures. We start exactly on October 15thwhen centralized domestic heating will ...

Why pears have sealing wax on the stem: the aesthetic and practical functions for ripening

Why pears have sealing wax on the stem: the aesthetic and practical functions for ripening

Often at the greengrocer you will see carefully arranged boxes of pears, each with a small drop of sealing wax on the stem. Today the red seal is essentially a decoration and one marketing strategy of the product, but the practice has ancient origins and very precise technical reasons. In the past, when there were no industrial fruit preservation systems, ...

Sentinel-3C sends the first images of Italy and the Earth from space: how the satellite works

Sentinel-3C sends the first images of Italy and the Earth from space: how the satellite works

Italy seen from the Sentinel–3C OLCI instrument on 30 September 2026. Credits: © ESA — contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA. The European satellite Sentinel-3C he sent his first images of the Earthpublished byEuropean Space Agency (ESA), last October 8: Italy is also among the areas filmed. But it’s not just about beautiful images of the planet, ...

90 million years ago Antarctica was hit by fires: they are the southernmost fires ever documented

90 million years ago Antarctica was hit by fires: they are the southernmost fires ever documented

Representation of the temperate rainforest environment of Antarctica in the Cretaceous. Credit: J. McKay, CC–BY 4.0 On the ocean floor along the coast ofWest Antarctica traces of have been found fires dating back to 90 million years agoin the Cretaceous, when the continent was ice-free. It’s about the more southern fires that have ever been documented on the planet. Their ...

The oldest tree in Italy is S'Ozzastru in Sardinia: the 14 m thousand-year-old olive tree is 4000 years old

The oldest tree in Italy is S’Ozzastru in Sardinia: the 14 m thousand-year-old olive tree is 4000 years old

Credits: Valerio Atzori, Sardinia Forestry Corps Is called S’Ozzastru (in the Sardinian language “the wild olive”) and is estimated to be between 3000 and 4000 years old. The Patriarch (this is his nickname) is located in Gallura, a sub-region of Sardinia located in the North-East, in particular in the hilly area of ​​Santu Baltolu di Carana, in the municipality of ...

New IT-Alert test today in Trentino and Lombardy due to dam collapse: where and when the alarm will sound

New IT-Alert test today in Trentino and Lombardy due to dam collapse: where and when the alarm will sound

IT–Alert test today 13 October at 11:00 for 32 Italian municipalities. Credit: Trentino Region Two new ones are arriving for the month of October IT-Alert test for the risk of collapse of two large dams: today, October 13, the experiment will simulate the possible collapse of the Malga Bissina damlocated in the province of Trento, involving both Trentino-Alto Adige and ...

NASA is targeting nuclear reactor on the Moon for future bases and exploration by 2030

NASA is targeting nuclear reactor on the Moon for future bases and exploration by 2030

Concept art of a possible surface nuclear fission reactor powering a base at the lunar south pole (left) and the nuclear interplanetary spacecraft arriving at Mars (right). Credits: NASA There NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) of the United States signed an agreement on development and the use ofnuclear energy for the next one space exploration which will serve ...

Bornean orangutans in danger from forest fires in Indonesia: the role of El Niño

Bornean orangutans in danger from forest fires in Indonesia: the role of El Niño

A baby orangutan rescued from the fires. Credits: YIARI / IAR Indonesia Eight orangutans, including three females with their daughters and two males, were recently released into the forests of Borneo after being rescued from forest fires. But while some specimens manage to return to their habitat, the situation for the species remains critical. In Indonesia, in fact, fires are ...