Landslides
When studying landslide phenomena, it is opportune to distinguish between the risk that is tied to the probability that an event may occur, and the danger of the event, which instead is tied to material damages that the phenomenon can provoke, and the toll of human lives.
The hydrogeological risk
On the sides of watercourses are plains known as flood plains, that get flooded only occasionally after large amounts of rainfall or the sudden melting of consistent amounts of snow masses...
Man and the mountain
The antique populations that used to live at the bottom of the mountains didn’t face them for a personal or a sport challenge as we do now, but only when it was necessary to survive, pushed for instance to procure food and what not.
appointments and news Earth
17/02/2012
New underground record
The longest cave in Italy can be found on the Piano di Tivano (or rather, under it!) in the province of Como...
Earth / Experiments
The stalactite
The stalactite
Earth / Experiments
Shiny silver
Shiny silver
