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“Clear, sweet fresh water,” wrote Petrarch, by many considered a precursor of Italian literature. Before him, St. Francis dedicated two of the first lines of his world-famous Canticle of the Creatures to water: “Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister…
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According to a study conducted by a French and Swiss research team recently published in the leading journal Nature, continental glaciers, i.e. those found on mountains or in colder lands, are disappearing. The researchers have mapped more than 200,000 continental…
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From the soles of shoes to contact lenses, from the smartphones we carry around in our pockets to the toothpaste we use every day to clean our teeth, there is no doubt: we live in the plastic era. Everywhere around…
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Moving in Antarctica How is it possible to live and work in Antarctica? Which sagacities must be used for a research? After understanding the motivations scientists research in this continent, we will look for the answers of these questions. Antarctica…
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A fascinated continent Antarctica is a continent with a very particular charm. It was the last to be discovered and explored (the South Pole was reached in 1911) and many difficulties were encountered when exploring Antarctica due to its particularly…
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Drinking a glass of water is the most simplest act in the world. Or rather, in this world. Very special and very rare conditions must occur in order for water to be liquid: our planet is a marvellous exception. Water…
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Water is a precious, vital and extremely important commodity. In short, it is a resource that should be preserved and protected every day. Yet on the contrary, what we see increasingly more frequently is unsustainable management of this essential resource,…
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“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.” Inuit proverb When passing this proverb down from generation to generation, the Inuit probably did not realise that, one day, it would be the ice of the…
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What is road runoff? Rain, in falling to the ground, can be contaminated in two ways: as a result of the dissolution of compounds present in the atmosphere due to anthropogenic and/or natural events (mainly metals, chlorides and sodium), or…