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 ...
The click farm (in Italian “click factories”) are organizations capable of generating hundreds of interactions on social media in a very short time, between views and comments or even reviews and clicks on advertising banners, using bot or through the work of real people who carry out these interactions by operating hundreds of cell phones essentially “selling” clicks and interactions. ...
Archive image. In recent weeks, many bathers and tourists have noticed the large amount of sea mucilage present on the coasts of the central and northern Adriatic, particularly in the Gulf of Trieste but also in the Marche and Emilia-Romagna. This “explosion” of mucilage is due to the proliferation of microalgae (in particular Gonyaulax fragilis) that produce polysaccharides and proteins ...
Today, at 3.31 pm, an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 hit the Ionian coast of Calabria, 3 km from the municipality of Carfizzi (in the province of Crotone). The earthquake has recorded a depth of 25 km and it was also clearly felt in other areas of Crotone, such as Crucoli, Umbriatico and Cirò Marina. Fortunately, no particular damage has been ...