Image generated with AI. The land grabbing, in Italian “land grabbing”, is the phenomenon whereby governments, multinationals or private investors purchase or appropriate large portions of land in the poorest countries, often to the detriment of local populations. The tendency of the most powerful to grab other people’s lands is nothing new, it is as old as the Human Being ...
At Campi Flegrei 24 earthquakes were recorded in the week from 19 to 25 January 2026. In the Campi Flegrei seismicity is decreasing: the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory (relating to the week from 19 to 25 January) reported 24 earthquake shocks Of magnitude maximum 1.7 (down from 44 earthquakes the previous week) and a ground uplift ...
It might seem really curious, but the snowballs — the dioramas enclosed in a glass bowl that we overturn to make it snow on the painted landscape — are born from a hospital experiment: their inventor, Erwin Perzy Iin reality, he was trying to improve the electric light bulb. These objects (also known as “snow globes” and “snow globes”), which ...
Landslide in Niscemi (CL). Credit: Salvo Cocina There landslide occurred yesterday in Niscemiin the province of Caltanissetta in Sicily, is still underway. Second Except Cocinadirector of the Sicilian Civil Protection, it is a landslide “unprecedented” for Sicily. The situation worsened starting from late yesterday afternoon, with others sagging which caused a widening of the landslide front and an increase in ...
It is one of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world and now represents a real threat to the ecosystem of the Venice lagoon. Let’s talk about the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyibetter known as sea nuta transparent gelatinous organism with a lobed body of about 10 cm. The problem is raised by a new study conducted byUniversity of Padua ...
Value of fingers in counting in Chisanbop. The Chisanbop is a Korean method of counting with hands that allows you to arrive up to 99 and easily perform mental calculations. It was invented around 1940 and is structured as follows: there right hand represents the units: the thumb it’s worth it 5While the other fingers they are worth each one ...
There Yellowstone volcano caldera, in Wyoming (United States) it rose 2 cm in its northern edge. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported this anomaly, thanks to radar and GPS surveys. The lift was recorded between July and September 2025 and, although it is not remarkable, it must be monitored carefully since Yellowstone (journalistically defined as a “supervolcano”) is one ...
A recent study published in Genome Biology and Evolution by Guðjónsdóttir and colleagues describes the recovery and analysis of the DNA of a woolly rhinoceros from a fragment of tissue found in a completely unexpected context: the stomach of a frozen wolf cub in the ground for more 14,000 years and discovered in 2011 in northeastern Siberia. From that small ...
When we iron our clothes wrinkled and we see the creases disappear into thin air, we are observing a set of chemical-physical phenomena due to the combination of two factors, one linked to temperature and one related towaterfall. The presence of heat and steam together together ensures that they can act on the structure of textile fibresmaking them temporarily softer ...
From a geological point of view, the landslide that hit Niscemi in the province of Caltanissetta in Sicily yesterday after the heavy rains of storm Harry caused 1000 evacuees, damage and closed schools. it’s one sliding landslide: an underground rupture in the slope at the edge of the town separated two layers of rocks, the upper one sliding on the ...