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Plants can be valuable allies and provide possible solutions to air pollution, at least in indoors. Plants have an extraordinary ability to remove pollutants from the environment. They can, for example, depollute soil and water and are able to purify…
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Help! a storm! Man has always been afraid of lightning, in fact in the past lightning was considered a sign of the anger of the gods, but in reality, even though lightning may seem an exemplary punishment, the possibility of…
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A sixteen-year-old Swedish girl is braving the wind, cold and rain to take her protest against the changing climate onto the streets. She does so with large placards on which she writes harsh words with a felt-tipped pen denouncing the…
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When we talk about tornadoes, our thoughts immediately go to the immense American plains and the area known as “tornado alley”, a vast corridor extending over several states in the central region of the USA, where tornadoes very frequently form.…
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One person every second. This is the rate at which – on average from 2008 to 2014 all over the world – natural disasters like hurricanes, flooding and earthquakes have forced an increasingly large number of people to flee their…
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Climate change is a fact. And the role of man in determining such change is scientifically established. Normally depicted by images of advancing desertification, hurricanes destroying the coats or melting glaciers, climate change is nowadays mostly dealt with in terms…
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Fig. 1 – Graphic representation of the algorithm It underlies many of our everyday actions, dictates what happens on the web, affects our "web reputation" on social media and chooses the ads that we run into on the Internet.…
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Who has never studied the water cycle, from the sea to the clouds and from the clouds to the sea? And who has never looked up to the sky in an attempt to make weather forecasts? We have probably all…
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The glossary of the 21st Conference of the Parties The 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opened its doors on 30 November in Paris, Parc des Expositions le Bourget. During these…