LIPU Venice: avoid pruning trees (even) in summer
“Let us immediately dispel a myth that tradition has accustomed us to believe,” they begin from LIPU Venice. Trees are not good for pruning; on the contrary. Cutting branches just to do it finds no valid scientific argument, a plant should be pruned only when and if it is needed and possibly by experienced and competent hands. In fact, this procedure means exposing greenery to external pathogens, opening a “corridor” that risks weakening, if not condemning, the plant, so it should be reduced to the essentials and only as much as necessary. The habit of trimming trees with the change of season annually is the ideal way to risk irreversibly compromising the tree stock, which is increasingly valuable in light of climate change “.
“Faced with the great summer heat, whose waves are getting more and more fiery from year to year,” they add. the worst thing you can do is just to cut down trees, both because you compromise the habitat of many animals, from birds to the bats that hide in the hollows, and because you limit the trees’ ability to naturally lower the temperature by mitigating the climate a bit, as well as going to weaken them in a season that is not suitable for cutting them down, since they are in the midst of plant activity. If birds and bats can bother us, let us remember their role in nature, the former in limiting the proliferation of certain species and the latter particularly gluttonous of mosquitoes, one of the insects that most annoys during hot summer evenings “.
Venice: Italy’s first hydrogen-powered public car share
The date is June 19, the place of the presentation is Forte Marghera, and the appointment is one of the historic ones: in fact, the first hydrogen-powered public car sharing in Italy is born in Venice. Presented to the national and local press and in front of all the companies involved in the project, the initiative involves the Municipality of Venice and KINTO Share, a Toyota Group company, which with a fleet to which three Mirai, electric cars propelled by hydrogen-powered fuel cells, have been added, will be available within the municipal territory.
“The partnership between the municipality and Toyota Group begins in 2018 with an initial car sharing service,” said Mauro Caruccio, CEO of KINTO Italy and Toyota Financial Services Italy. we met through a common vision on sustainable mobility innovation. Indeed, the KINTO Share service since its appearance in the lagoon has been distinguished by a low-pollution electrified fleet; in fact, the 50 cars have very low CO2 and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. In addition, the service was created to be digitally accessible in a simple and intuitive way, combining sustainability with technology “.
“Dotor, go a batarea…”: discovering palpitations.
The heart beats, on average, 70 times per minute, but a frequency between 60 and 100 beats per minute (bpm) is still considered “normal.” In some trained athletes or in individuals who are treated with some particular medications, the rate may drop as low as 50 bpm or below, without causing any discomfort to the individual.
In reality, each “beat” consists of a “systole “-the phase when the heart contracts to expel blood and send it to all organs-and a “diastole,” when the heart relaxes to receive venous blood from the organs and lungs. This continuous alternation between the two phases is not perceived by the individual except under special conditions.
