The trait of the Morandi Bridge collapsed on August 14, 2018 and was demolished on June 28, 2019 at 9:37 am before reconstruction completed in 2020. new road connection via the new Genoa San Giorgio Bridge. From 2018 to 2020, there were also various design and implementation activities of the demolition phases of the remaining part of the viaduct still ...
The news should be taken with great caution (the Western intelligence source is secret), but the Financial Times would have had access to classified russian documents in which a sample of would be listed 32 potential military targetsestablished between 2008 and 2014 (before the conflict with Ukraine), which the Russian Navy would have been trained through simulations to hit in ...
At 8 am (Moscow time) on August 6, 2024 the Ukrainian Armed Forces they crossed the border with the Russia in the area of theoblast (“province”) of Kursk (not far from the city of Belgorod), launching a real military offensivewhich to date has led to taking the check of a vast area of Russia, the size of which varies depending ...
Fires in Greece as seen from satellite on 12 August 2024. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel–2 imagery A large series of forest fires began to spread uncontrollably on Sunday 11 August 2024 in Greece, in the region of Eastern Attica, currently covering an area of almost 8600 hectares (86 square kilometers) reaching almost to the north-eastern outskirts of Athens. This ...
Northern Lights of August 12, 2024 from Monte Baldo, on Lake Garda. Credit: Andrea Vanoni Last night August 12, 2024 the spectacle of the Northern Lights and of the auroral arcs (SAR) unexpectedly returned to the skies of Northern Italyespecially along the Alpine arc in Veneto and Lombardy, right at the same time as the peak of the Perseid meteor ...
An earthquake shock of magnitude 4.4 hit the city of Los Angelesin Californiaat 12:20 local (9.20pm Italian time). The earthquake had a depth of approximately 11 km and an epicenter near the neighborhood of Newton Park. Since it is a densely populated area, the shock was felt not only throughout the city but also in San Diego – about 200 ...
In the’archaeological area of Pompeii they came to light the skeletons of two new victims of theeruption of 79 ADall during the jobs started in 2023 to re-establish the boundaries of the excavation areas. The human remains were found inside one of the rooms of a building recently investigated by archaeologists (called room 33), and would belong to a woman ...
The vacation and the holidays They are mainly made in August due to a very ancient traditionlinked to the agricultural work cycle. In fact, summer is the period in which no crops are grown cerealswhich are harvested in June and sown again in autumn. The practice of taking holidays in summer, coinciding with the break from work in the fieldshas ...
In recent years there has been a notable increase in interest in a particular clean energy source present in rocks: thewhite hydrogenhydrogen gas found underground, of natural origin and produced by geological processes. It’s about free hydrogenthat is, not bound to other elements (on Earth, most hydrogen is found in the form of compounds, such as water and methane). White ...
Study area with cross-sections along east–west and north–south axes showing salinity variation with depth (increasing from blue to orange). Credit: INGV Among the solutions proposed to combat the water crisis in Sicily, the option of drawing on a huge deposit of 17 billion cubic meters of underground water, almost certainly drinkable, discovered in 2023 by the INGV and located between ...