17.04.2025
In the northern Venetian lagoon, at Lio Piccolo, archaeologists have uncovered a Roman ostriarium dating to the 1st century CE—the first ever found in Italy. The structure is a rectangular basin built with bricks and wooden planks, buried in the lagoon sediment, and used to keep oysters alive before
11.04.2025
On Friday 11 April at 6 p.m., the Auditorium of the Museum of Nature and Humankind, located in Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 39, Padua, will host the presentation of Auyán-tepui, Caves at the Origins of Time (Edizioni La Venta), curated by Francesco Sauro, researcher at the Department of Geosciences of
The researcher talks about his expeditions among the tepui and his new book Auyán-tepui
30.03.2025
On Sunday, March 30, Francesco Sauro, researcher at the Department of Geosciences, was a guest on the TV program Kilimangiaro, airing on Rai 3 from 5:15 to 7:00 PM. During the interview, he talked about his explorations of the Amazonian mountains — a remote and largely unknown landscape where
30.01.2025
The objective is to characterize frozen soils in Andean environments, with a particular focus on permafrost in arid cryosphere regions. This activity is part of the COLD SPOT project, within the 2023-2027 Excellence Project"Geosciences for Sustainable Development"
