Animal compasses: the Sun and the Moon

That animals knew how to use the sun to guide their large or small movements was the first important acquisition in the field of orientation towards a defined destination (migration and homing).Felix Santschi, a doctor who moved from Switzerland, operated in Kairouan, Tunisia in the early 1900s. With simple field […]

Let’s redesign the world

Many wonder if individual efforts can really be significant in stopping or at least mitigating climate warming and allowing the planet to replenish its resources. This question can be easily answered: the serious problems that afflict us for having disturbed so many balances are nothing more than the sum of […]

Asteroids and other catastrophes

In the imagination of peoples and cultures, since the dawn of time, the end of the world has been evoked and predicted, perhaps to exorcise the fear of this catastrophe. And so in the millennia from the Mayan prophecy which set the end of the world in 2012, to the […]

The rhythms of the sea: the tides

Third and final appointment with the movements of salt waters, which occupy a large part of the planet that hosts us with so much patience.In the first article we explored the “functioning” of the waves (https://www.earthgardeners.it/2023/07/27/i-ritmi-del-mare-le-onde/); in the second we were interested in currents (https://www.earthgardeners.it/2023/07/27/i-ritmi-del-mare-le-onde/); in this we will deal […]