Everyday plastic products produce microplastics fragments. They are tiny, nearly indestructible, as we learn more about microplastics, the news keeps getting worse. Since few decades we know that microplastics are in our oceans and soil. …
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Soil consumption: the alarming Italian case
In 2023, in Italy every second 2,4 m2 of soil are lost. This means that in only one year 77 km2, approximately little less than the half the surface of the city of Milan, were …
The troubles of the Christmas Tree
While many of us are decorating the Christmas Tree, scientists have just discovered additional trees’ troubles in facing the climate change, especially in drought conditions. A new study published in the journal Science by researchers …
The dolphins superpowers
Dolphins have always fascinated humans: they’re sociable, they’re intelligent, they’re very agile and they love playing in the water, doing acrobatics. There’s something more, some news from the world of bottlenose dolphins… Bottlenose dolphins squeak, …
Summer 2023: the hot season of the records
NASA announced the summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880. The scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York show the trend of the months of …
New discovery about the coronal heating
A new international research published on The Astrophysical Journal Letters, with the Solar Orbiter/Metis and the Parker Solar Probe instruments, unveils the secrets of the Sun’s atmosphere. The first observational estimate of the heating rate …