Clothing & Pollution
Have you ever thought about what your clothes are made of? About who makes your clothes, or what happens after you throw them away? The truth about the fashion industry is actually pretty ugly.The...
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The meteoric rise of "fast fashion", the business of quickly turning around new collections, often at lower prices to encourage consumption, in particular is proving to be toxic for the environment....
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The pesticide manufacturer lobby is one of the strongest in the world. Even our minister of Agriculture, Carola Schouten, has been secretly voting pro pesticide manufacturers, when our House of...
View ArticleAgriculture & Soil Degradation
Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years. They filter our water. They are one of our...
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Chemicals, in agriculture, are used in all steps of the plant growth, from the seed to the final product. A chemical, in the agricultural sector, is a product that is manufactured using industrial...
View ArticleAgriculture & Impact on the Planet
When we speak about agriculture and its impacts on the planet, we need refer to the intensive agriculture happening today, which is a real threat to our environment. Appeared in the 50s, in USA,...
View ArticleAgriculture & GMOs
Just what are genetically engineered foods, and who is eating them? What do we know about their benefits—and their risks? What effect might engineered plants have on the environment and on agricultural...
View ArticleAgriculture & Energy Resources
Agricultural production more than tripled between 1960 and 2015, owing in part to productivity-enhancing Green Revolution technologies and a significant expansion in the use of land, water and other...
View ArticleEnergy & Global Overview
Energy is an important ingredient in all phases of society. We live in a very interdependent world, and access to adequate and reliable energy resources is crucial for economic growth and for...
View ArticleEnergy & Renewable Energies
At this moment the world still relies heavily on non-renewable energy sources, such as natural gas, oil and coal. The burning of these fossil fuels generates energy but also produces carbon dioxide...
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Today, natural gas is a vital component of the world's supply of energy. Natural gas currently supplies more than one-half of the energy consumed by residential and commercial customers, and about 41...
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Electricity starts our mornings and charges our devices. It powers industries and lights our nights. It is even set to increasingly run our cars. It is self-evident, yet the system has been changing at...
View ArticleEnergy, Electromagnetic Fields and 5G
The electromagnetic fields—whatever their frequency bands—are increasingly being used in wireless communications that nowadays are used in almost every aspect of our daily life. Over the past 30 years,...
View ArticleEnergy & Oil
Since its discovery, petroleum has played a prominent role in the growth of the world economy and in the quality of life of societies around the world. It will continue to do so in the future. The...
View ArticleExtinction & Global Overview
Scientists are warning we’re in the middle of the sixth mass extinction. While these phases aren’t new for the planet, they’re usually caused by catastrophic geological events like volcanic eruptions,...
View ArticleExtinction & Trophy Hunting
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wild animals around the world are killed in trophy hunts, where the primary motivation is to obtain animal parts (that is, their heads, hides or claws and even the...
View ArticleExtinction & Ocean
“We may be sitting on the precipice of a major extinction event”While Earth has been through 5 mass extinctions in the past, none quite compare to the one that's happening right now. The current 6th...
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Extinction & Animals
According to the new Report, entitled Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), more than one million species of plants and animals are at risk of...
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Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant extinctions, according to scientists who have completed the first global analysis of the issue.They found 571 species...
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Earth’s ecosystems have evolved for millions of years, resulting in diverse and complex biological communities living in balance with their environment. Since the 16th century, human activity has...
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