Ecology and Environment

November 25, 2021 – In a new Public Service Announcement (PSA), Waste Burning Exposed, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Asia Pacific, revealed truths regarding waste-to-energy (WtE) incinerators. Featuring distinguished professor and environmental scientist, Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, the PSA…

Our broken and inhumane food system is a huge source of emissions, so why isn’t it a major part of the climate solution? By Reynard Loki The impact of agriculture on climate change is significant. According to the Environmental Protection…

We publish here the documentary directed and filmed by Chilean publicist José Miguel Sauvalle and photographer Francisca Santamaría, “Tunquén, a wounded sanctuary”, which with a critical look and interviews to several experts, shows how this beautiful place in the Central…

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

“Wildly here without control, Nature reigns and rules the whole…” Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns, wrote those lines in 1787. If only the delegates to COP26, the United Nations climate summit that wrapped up last Saturday in Glasgow, had…

The Glasgow Climate Pact kicks the climate can down the road By Reynard Loki After more than two weeks of negotiations during the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, diplomats from almost 200 nations finally agreed on two…

This November 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) released a new publication on the Escazú Accord, produced in collaboration with the University of Rosario (Argentina). The book is entitled “The Escazú Agreement on Environmental Democracy and…

In the framework of the Open Encounter of New Humanism, called “The human being as a central value”, we reflect on the global environmental situation and its effects on health. By Doris Balvín What is the state of the global…

After graduating from high school, Melissa started an undergraduate programme in Biology at the University of Antioquia, but after five semesters she decided to take a break in order to commit herself to community work in rural areas. This decision…

by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.   “Climate change” describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. Earth’s climate is always changing over long periods of time and has been hotter and…