‘Impossible to adapt’: Surprisingly fast ice-melts in past raise fears about sea level rise
Geological studies suggest sea levels have the potential to rise more quickly than models currently predict. Read more [...]
Tag Archives: Environment
Water in a loop: how to combat water scarcity on remote islands
This article presents EU funded projects working on how to combat water scarcity in remote islands in mediterranean regions. Read more [...]
Understanding the Environmental Impact of Local Sourcing
Not every locally made product is considered sustainable. Taking time to understand the environmental benefits of Local Sourcing can help. Read more [...]
HAPPINESS TREE-HORMONE-PANDEMIC
In a pandemic world, Sukarma Thareja proposes a poem to remind us the importance of happiness while keeping the sanitary distance measures. Read more [...]
Changing environment, changing health
Our environment and health are intertwined and we must equip future generations with adaptive capacities to achieve sustainable human wellbeing. Read more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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