Biotope: Gravel Pit
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Biotope: Gravel Pit
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The forest has been cleared, the bridge is already in place, too. Only the road surface is missing. In Germany, every day an area the size of 125 soccer fields disappears under concrete and asphalt. In the process, 250 million tons of sand and gravel are used per year. But where do the many small stones come from? Where, only a short time ago, corn, trees or grass used to grow, today excavator shovels dig into the soil. Like a wound in the landscape it is lying there – the gravel pit. But gravel pits are more than holes in the earth.
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Youth Movement
Dancing until your feet hurt: Here, at the meeting on the Hoher Meissner near Kassel, 3,500 participants from Boy Scout associations, youth and Wandervogel groups from all over the German-speaking region have gathered. They want to celebrate, simply get to know each other and commemorate a historic anniversary.
Blogging
The weblog or blog, for short, as a medium is not much older than this century. Blogs came into being in the World Wide Web as ’messages from below’, as web pages from web creators who wanted to share their view of the world with the world. They are short notes, long texts, pictures, videos, which are posted loosely and at random intervals to the world for an undefined public.
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Being able to fly has been a dream of humanity from time immemorial. But it does not even date back a century that people actually started being able to travel through the air. Since the 1960s, the number of flight passengers has been constantly increasing. Thus, the airspace is no longer dominated by birds but by man-made flying objects.