During the summer, the ice on the Antarctic Peninsula accelerates its seaward movement by 22% due to warmer ocean waters and melting snow. This is indicated by research by the British University of Leeds and published in the journal Nature Geoscience and based on data from the Sentinel-1 satellites, the European Copernicus programme, the European […]
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Switzerland: glaciers melt, bones and wreck emerge
(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 10 – The melting of the Swiss glaciers has led to the discovery of human remains and a plane that has been missing for 50 years. The Guardian reports it. In recent days, two French climbers found human bones while climbing the Chessjen glacier in the southern canton of Valais, the […]
EU: Gentiloni, we will not end up in recession
“There are conditions to avoid a recession, there are conditions to prevent the European economy from again going into a crisis similar to that of ten years ago. The steps are tight and one is to ensure a transition to renewable energies that allow us to diversify supplies and not have too heavy economic consequences […]
More than a thousand protest in Tunisia against President Saied
(ANSA) – TUNIS, APRIL 10 – Over a thousand people today accepted the appeal of the Islamic party Ennhadha and the collective “Citizens against the coup” to celebrate in front of the Municipal Theater of Tunis, on the central Avenue Bourguiba, the Martyrs Day but above all to protest against the measures decided by President […]
Tunisia: President Saied dissolves Parliament
(ANSA) – TUNIS, MARCH 30 – Tunisian President Kais Saied announced in the evening, during a meeting of the Security Council, the dissolution of Parliament. He announced the Facebook page of the Carthage presidency by publishing a video in which Saied called the virtual meeting of the (suspended) deputies an attempted coup. A few hours […]
Tunisia: members of the provisional CSM swear
(ANSA) – TUNIS, 07 MAR – The members of the Provisional Superior Council of the Judiciary were sworn in today before the Tunisian President Kais Saied. This was announced by the presidency of the Tunisian Republic on its Facebook page. On February 5, Saied announced the dissolution of the CSM, and then published, on February […]
Maxi-icebergs poured 1.5 tons of water into the sea a day
(ANSA) – ROME, JANUARY 20 – During the peak of its melting process, the former largest iceberg in the world, known as the A68 and became a social media star, poured over 1.5 billion tons of water into the ocean ‘water per day, approximately 150 times the amount of water used daily by all UK […]
Climate, the ice in Antarctica more vulnerable than expected
Ice in Antarctica may be more vulnerable than expected in the face of global warming: this is demonstrated by the dynamics of the ice caps in the past, reconstructed thanks to the analysis of sediments dating back to the Lower and Middle Miocene (about 18-16 million years ago), a period in which both warmer and […]
Discovered the mechanism to fight obesity
Researchers from the University of Padua and the Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine discover a fundamental mechanism that opens up new avenues to combat obesity. The obesity epidemic in the Western world represents one of the challenges of modern medicine. In the United States almost 43% of the population is obese, in the WHO European […]