Save Environment With Pride and Grace
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 [...]
Tag Archives: Environment
Thinking and Acting in a Disrupted World: Governance, Environment, People, Inequality and Disease
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 [...]
Five Innovative Technologies Improving Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
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 [...]
What 14th-century Greenland can teach Asian Islands
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 [...]
The Poetry of Science – Episode 11: The Cost of Shale
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 [...]
The Poetry of Science – Episode 10: Environmental Death
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 [...]
THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS BEHIND THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON MASS-FIRES
In order to understand the science behind the recent mass-burning of the Brazilian Amazon, we must put this man-made catastrophe in the context of Brazilian politics. Read more [...]
The Poetry of Science – Episode 3: Plastic Paradise
This episode uncovers research which has has found an estimated 414 million pieces of human-made rubbish on Australia’s remote Cocos Islands. Read more [...]
Earth’s biota entering a sixth mass extinction, UN report claims
Five big extinctions have challenged life on earth in the past 500 million years. It turns out we are now in the middle of the 6th extinction, according to a recent UN report. Read more [...]
MOTHER OF US ALL
IPBES recently released a preliminary report about the alarming rate of extinction for nearly one million species heading for the "sixth extinction". Read more [...]
Ecology of the Gulf of Finland and the Neva Bay: plastic pollution of the marine environment
Petersburg scientists are sounding the alarm over the pollution of the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga with plastic bottles and household chemicals. In accordance with the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea region, cooperation between Russia and the EU Read more [...]
Paper biosensors: towards eco-friendly diagnosis
Many of our daily products are made from pollutant materials, which have proven to be extremely difficult to recycle. Recently, there have been a number of high profile campaigns to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Specifically to raise awareness of single-use plastics (microbeads, packaging, bags, disposable products etc.), which make up approximately 40% of the now more than 448 million tons of plastic produced every year. In an effort to do their bit to help, some biotechnological companies within the healthcare sector have focused their efforts on the search for alternative materials to fabricate diagnostics products. Paper has emerged as a possibility, but is it actually a real option for the market? Read more [...]
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