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Global warming and heating cities: a challenge for Europe

di Lori Berti
Pubblicato il 13/06/2014
Research and development
Environment
Town planning

Climate change today is a reality. It involves lot of problems, the toughest ones being the loss of biodiversity, the rise of sea levels and the increase of temperatures. But there are also other less known phenomena connected with the global warming. One of them is the urban heat island, which is induced by materials composing the urban environment and involves numerous cities across Europe. Cement retains heat, sewer systems carry water away quickly, impeding the cooling, and heat is trapped between surfaces because of the so-called canyon effect. Thus,

NASA, Gavin Schmidt named director of GISS

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 11 June, 2014 - 23:51

Gavin Schmidt is the new formerly deputy director of the NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
Schmidt has been so far the deputy director of the Earth Climate research laboratory and takes over James Hansen, retired last year after a long time leading position in the Institute, to open a separate climate science and advocacy center at the Earth Institute.

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Winners of 2014 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize announced

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 11 June, 2014 - 11:13

The Gruber Foundation has announced yesterday the recipients of the 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize, wich honuors every year the highlight and leading discoveries by cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosofer who carried on and improved our knowledge and understaning of the Universe.

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Prizes
Astronomy
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Climate change: what to say and how to say it

di Antonio Pilello
Pubblicato il 10/06/2014
Environment
Communication
Climatology

According to the Special Eurobaromer 409, around one out of six Europeans think that climate change is the single most serious problem that the world is facing. The survey provides some measures on the perception of climate change in relation to other world problems and collected the opinions on who within the EU is responsible for tackling climate change. We had the great pleasure to speak about the usefulness of this important tool with Luca

Are we ready to benefit from new technologies?

di Valentina Daelli
Pubblicato il 06/06/2014
Technology and applied sciences

Filling the gap in digital infrastructures might not be enough to put Italy in line with countries that are more mature in taking advantage from new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The real restraint for the country’s ability to develop and exploit its digital ecosystem is the political and regulatory environment, unable to keep up with the opportunities offered by new technologies.