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Venice Lagoon: Ecosystem services provided by salt marshes

30.01.2023

Salt marshes have the ability to sequester carbon at an astonishingly high rate that is up to 50 times that of forests. Their contribution in terms of mitigating the effects of climate change is therefore fundamental but it can be put at risk by the degradation processes of these environments and the loss of surfaces.

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Hyperion: An update on the project in the pilot sites video

26.01.2023

Hyperion’s second video from the test sites of Rhodes, Venice, Granada & Tonsberg has been officially released. Let’s find out how is the work going.

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Claudia Fabiola Benvegnù awarded the CONI bronze medal for athletic value

13.12.2022

Claudia is a student of the Department of Geosciences and a successful canoeist. She was awarded during the cerimony for the sporting merits achieved in 2020

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Claudia Fabiola Benvegnù awarded the CONI bronze medal for athletic value

13.12.2022

Claudia is a student of the Department of Geosciences and a successful canoeist. She was awarded during the cerimony for the sporting merits achieved in 2020

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Venice Lagoon. The salt marshes and what they need to survive

21.11.2022

In the second episode of the mini-series on the Venice Lagoon we begin to discover the salt marshes, one of the most characteristic morphological structures of this humid environment. We will be discovering which depositional dynamics guarantee their survival in the face of rising sea levels.We will

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