2019 Second Warmest Year
According to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern record-keeping began in 1880....
View ArticleMegafires and Climate Change
Megafires, typically defined as covering more than 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares or 400 square kilometres), are accelerated by high temperatures and drought. By the close of 2019, Brazil, the...
View ArticleA Plastic Wave
A surf photographer, business owner and father of two is seeing more and more plastic wash ashore his beloved home beach. In a bid to discover the root of this problem he embarks on a journey of...
View ArticleIs the future Vegan?
By 2050 the world’s population could approach 10 billion – and around 60% more food could be needed to feed everyone. The environmental impacts of the food system are daunting its responsible for about...
View ArticleMelting permafrost
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 30 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide (CO2). Both gases are produced in thawing permafrost as dead animal and plant remains...
View ArticleAre you eating plastic?
Each year we produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic and by 2050 there will be more of it than fish in our oceans.
View ArticleBurger King on “Net Neutrality”
In January, a Burger King ad tried to teach customers about net neutrality, using Whoppers to criticize the recent repeal of regulations that proponents said ensured equal access to the Internet. In...
View ArticlePlastics in tap water
It has been confirmed that microscopic plastic fibers are present in our tap water. So what controls are in place to deal with this problem? Apparently, none in the US. The US doesn’t have a safety...
View ArticleWhere will you stand?
On which side of history are you going to choose to stand? Will you be part of this social revolution or will you stubbornly cling to the myth sold to us as children that animals are merely “things” to...
View ArticleIndia bans single-use plastic
According to the Times of India, India is among the top four polluting countries which are responsible for an astonishing 60 per cent of the plastic that is dumped in the world’s oceans every year....
View ArticlePopulation growth and climate change
Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling
View ArticleBill Nye on Climate Change
Climate Change is a real and serious issue. In this video Bill Nye, the Science Guy, explains what causes climate change, how it affects our planet, why we need to act promptly to mitigate its effects,...
View ArticleWhy the Amazon Matters!
The Amazon basin spans South America and contains 40 percent of the world’s remaining tropical forest. But every year more and more is being cut down – last year about twenty-five-and-a-half-thousand...
View ArticleSyntropic Agriculture
Ernst Götsch is a farmer and researcher who migrated to Brazil in the early 1980s and settled on a farm in the cocoa zone of southern Bahia. Since then, he’s developed soil recovery techniques through...
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