Why is Venezuela interested in electric cars after having the cheapest gasoline in the world? A few years ago, while the rest of the world awakened to the idea of electric cars, in Venezuela it was...
Elephants and humans in Africa are embroiled in a tug-of-war over arable land due to the effects of climate change. Arid land is now the norm in many parts of sub-saharan Africa and this has prompted...
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is scheduled to take place in Glasgow, Scotland between the 31st of October and the 12th of November 2021 and much of the focus will be on...
The contamination of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo is visible from space. This was revealed by scientists from NASA's The Earth Observatory, an institution that makes public its data, images and...
A couple of weeks ago, the slaughter of 1,428 dolphins in the Faroe Islands alarmed the world. A few days ago, the Colombian government seized 3,493 shark fins destined for Hong Kong. The first case...
In Paraguay, garbage is transformed into music, giving hope to vulnerable sectors of the capital. These children and young people had no prospects in life but now, they dream of becoming musicians,...
Tim Jackson, University of Surrey Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t seem...
Lynda Dunlop, University of York; Lucy Atkinson, University of York, and Maria Turkenburg-van Diepen, University of York In just three years, calls for climate action have seen the Fridays For Future...
Climate is one of the most important expenses the world's leading economies face, costing hundreds of trillions of dollars. The Paris Protocol prescribes reducing carbon emissions by at least a...
The documentary Home (2009) consists of three parts. Filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand deals with various concepts with a poetic approach and captures spectacular and sometimes ugly images of nature and...