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...
Looking around, we see plastic everywhere. Over the past century, the use of plastic has become so pervasive that we cannot imagine it not existing. It is used to make millions of products such as...
Latin America traditionally has had a very close relationship with the earth, but the progress of the big cities and modernity has taken most of the population away from its origins. Products from...
At the end of September, half a year into the pandemic, Smithfield Foods fulfilled a pledge to donate 10 million pounds of animal protein — the equivalent of 40 million servings — to food banks...