When we think about melting glaciers, our foremost concerns are the declining animal populations and rising global sea levels. However, virologists have known about the other effects of melting glacial ice for a long time, including the release of micro-organisms and viruses that were frozen in the glaciers thousands of years ago. Read more [...]
Not every locally made product is considered sustainable. Taking time to understand the environmental benefits of Local Sourcing can help. Read more [...]
In a pandemic world, Sukarma Thareja proposes a poem to remind us the importance of happiness while keeping the sanitary distance measures. Read more [...]
Our environment and health are intertwined and we must equip future generations with adaptive capacities to achieve sustainable human wellbeing. Read more [...]
Sukarma Rani Thareja writes a poem during the world environment day, in a pandemic context, reflecting on the relation between humans and the environment. Read more [...]
An ecological civilization should care for the natural and built environments, the cultural heritage, the collective bonds, education, health, ethics, aesthetics, equity and justice. But this involves many actors, in a planet united only by the media and 'globalization' and divided by confrontation and competition. Read more [...]
As people use water in various industrial processes, they tend to pollute it. To protect the environment and ensure people have clean drinking water, people need to treat wastewater. Read more [...]
The Norse settlement extinction from Greenland can teach us some lessons about our current resource-extraction and production recklessness, economy-environment incompatibility and the importance of collective responsibility and globally-coordinated planning. Read more [...]
This episode is inspired by recent research, which suggests that fracking may be responsible for the increase in atmospheric methane that has been observed over the past decade. Read more [...]
Between 2002 and 2017, 1,558 people across 50 countries were killed for defending their environments and lands, this is more than double the number of United Kingdom and Australian armed service people killed on active duty in war zones over the same period. Read more [...]
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