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Nature today | March 19 is the first Dutch shell count day

Nature today |  March 19 is the first Dutch shell count day

In Belgium, the Flanders Marine Institute has been organizing a shell counting day for five years. This year the Netherlands is participating for the first time. Dutch organizations working on biodiversity and knowledge on our beaches will help families, beach visitors and citizen scientists map seashells on eight beaches. Participating makes all your trips to the beach more fun, and …

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Omroep Flevoland – News – More space to live in Hanzekwartier

Omroep Flevoland - News - More space to live in Hanzekwartier

There are too few buyers or tenants for the newly planned commercial spaces on the ground floor in part of the Hanzekwartier in Dronten. This is why the municipality now wants to make it possible to live on the ground floor near the Havenkade. The possibility of commercial spaces remains. A mix of housing and shops can thus be created …

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Nijmegen environmental service reported faulty

Nijmegen environmental service reported faulty

The Environment Agency for the Region of Nijmegen (ODRN) did not report to what extent the permits were up to date and whether the ODRN inspected the companies most harmful to the environment (establishment type C) in less than once a year. This emerges from the Nijmegen Joint Research Collaboration – ODRN type C institutions of the Berenschot firm. never …

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Solar storm warning with massive volcanic eruption from the sun bringing ‘thunderbolt’ to Earth within hours | Science

Solar storm warning with massive volcanic eruption from the sun bringing 'thunderbolt' to Earth within hours |  Science

One of the most powerful forms of solar storms, coronal mass emission (CME), occurs when the sun spews out a cloud of charged particles and electromagnetic fluctuations.The CME passing close to Earth today was launched into space three days ago by ‘wires’ of interlocking magnetic fields on the surface of the Sun. Early forecasts indicated that the next solar storm …

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Henk Peter Kip (Mitros) on the housing shortage

Henk Peter Kip (Mitros) on the housing shortage

The housing shortage is getting worse and yet the housing associations are building far too little. How did it happen? Henk Peter Kip, chairman of the board of the housing company Mitros, is a guest at BNR Business. Kees de Kort Every day, just after noon, presenter Thomas van Zijl discusses the economic situation with macroeconomist and commentator Kees de …

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The crater under the Greenland ice sheet is much older than expected: 58 million years

The crater under the Greenland ice sheet is much older than expected: 58 million years

A devastating meteorite impact on Greenland discovered in 2018 has not happened in the past 2.6 million years, as previously thought. No, it happened 58 million years ago. Scientists conclude this after dating rock grains near the impact crater. Their the results were released on Wednesday in Scientists progress† The discovery of the impact crater, in northern Greenland, was described …

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