Bioethics as a tool for social and environmental challenges

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We are witnessing the appearance of a new vision, a product of the damage that human beings are capable of causing in our common home.

The climate crisis is unfair

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We, as society, must fight back climate change and it has to be a priority.

Forests are key in tackling climate crisis

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'Without the forest cover we have now, the planet would be hotter and the weather more extreme'

Junk Food and the Brain: How Modern Diets Lacking in Micronutrients May Contribute to Irritability and Anger

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Hidden brain hunger is one modifiable factor contributing to emotional outbursts, aggression and even the loss of civility in public discourse.

World Wildlife Day 2022

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The Iberian lynx was a critical predator in Mediterranean ecosystems. 20 years ago, there were only 94 Iberian lynx left. A recovery programme allowed numbers of Iberian lynx to climb to over 1,100, showing the power of conservation.

To block pandemics, keep ecosystems healthy

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According to a new scientific study, current official plans to prevent future pandemics like Covid-19 are unlikely to be successful.

'Financing our own extinction': $1.8tr in subsidies funding nature destruction every year, global study finds

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Major report calls for rapid action to be taken by government and business to deliver subsidy reform

Corals doomed even if global climate goals met: study

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Coral reefs that anchor a quarter of marine wildlife and the livelihoods of more than half-a-billion people will most likely be wiped out even if global warming is capped within Paris climate goals, researchers said Tuesday.

How Climate Change Will Affect Plants

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We human beings need plants for our survival. Everything we eat consists of plants or animals that depend on plants somewhere along the food chain.

Microplastics and Toxic Chemicals Increasingly Prevalent in World’s Oceans

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We do not fully understand the risks to human health of ingesting plastic...

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution reveals

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The findings add to the growing scientific evidence about the importance of afforestation in urban areas and point to the need to create ecological corridors to connect separate landscapes.

Postpone the SDGs?

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It is clear that the global goals that we as a society have set for ourselves are not being achieved in time. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic; we have not stopped our mission, however the statistics reflect a very discouraging situation.

Cryptocurrency mining has a huge carbon footprint. Here’s what experts think we should do about it.

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As currencies like bitcoin and dogecoin make digital currency as valid a form of payment as the U.S. dollar and euro, experts seek new environmentally-friendly solutions to the massive amounts of energy cryptocurrency consumes.

It is time for the local to determine the Global

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Researcher Johan Rockström established in 2009 the planetary boundaries for humanity to continue to develop and prosper in following generations.

Time to end the mass killing

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Many times larger than climate change and more deadly than Covid or war, humanity’s chemical emissions are the crisis nobody wants to acknowledge.

Plan E: A climate-centred security strategy?

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The underpinning strategic logic behind PLAN E is for nations to undertake a pivot in their threat posture, at the level of grand strategy. Coherent grand strategy means that all arms of Government and the nation are aligned in their objectives, and the objectives are worthwhile.

The Earth Strikes Back

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Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth took a fever. Somehow, 12,000 billion tonnes of carbon escaped into the atmosphere – and global temperatures soared by 5-8 degrees Celsius over the next few thousand years.

Empathy and the environment

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An evolution to a cleaner, greener world requires not only the activism of youth, but also the wisdom of age and the leadership of a Lincoln or Roosevelt to address the concerns of those adversely affected by change, so that all can see a path to a brighter future, for themselves, their children and their world.

How to really reduce the co2 emissions of the atmosphere?

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We still have an opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. This is not as difficult as it sounds. Here are some reflections, questions and answers that will help us solve the problem, covering only 70% of global emissions we can achieve important global results:

Hydrogen for a stronger economy and cleaner environment

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Frank Wolak, President and CEO of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association – argues that when it comes to a stronger economy and a cleaner environment – hydrogen brings it all together