Rap guide to climate chaos: a rap musical explains the risks of climate change
A true mix between hip hop and science: this is the “Rap guide to climate chaos”. A musical explaining the risks of climate change also performed at Cop 21.
Energy in Brazil. The country with the most renewable energy in the world
The history of energy in Brazil: “the oil is ours” Brazil drilled its first oil well in 1897 in Bofete City and in 1953 the oil and gas giant Petrobras was founded under the slogan “o petróleo é nosso” (the oil is ours). Over the years, Brazil diversified its energy matrix. Starting from the 1940s
Energy in the United States: a revolution is taking place, slowly
A history Significant changes in the history of energy in the United States have mainly been dictated by the development of new resources. From the use of wood up to the late 1800s to early industrial growth powered by water mills, coal became the first source of primary energy in the late 19th century. In
Scientists crowdfund to save the Joshua tree by sequencing its genome
The scientists and organisations involved in the Joshua Tree Genome Project are doing something unique: developing genetic tools that could save the Joshua tree from extinction. This unusual looking tree is found only in the hottest and driest place in North America, the Mojave Desert, in the southwestern United States. Important to the local Native
The Rockefellers divest from fossil fuels. Exxonmobil? “Morally reprehensible”
The Rockefeller family fund confirms it will give up fossil fuels. “It makes little sense—financially or ethically—to continue holding investments in these companies”.
Vegetarian diet could save millions of lives
If the whole world decides from now on to cut out meat and dairy products from its diet, more than 8 million lives would be saved by 2050, according to a study carried out by the University of Oxford. Moreover, it shows that the massive adoption of vegetarian or vegan diets – on a global level –
Flights from Europe to the US will be slowed down by climate change
By 2100, flights from London to New York, as well as any other transatlantic flight from Europe to the United States, will be more expensive, longer and more polluting than today. This is due to climate change. In particular, due to the consequences the rise in global temperatures will cause on the jet stream, according
The man who makes music out of ice in the coldest recording studio of the world
To underline the effects of climate change, Terje Isungset recorded his album Meditations in the arctic regions using ice instruments.
Hunger will kill 500,000 people by 2050, due to climate change
Uno studio dell’università di Oxford stima per la prima volta il numero di decessi che il clima provocherà facendo mancare sufficienti quantità di cibo.
8 women who are changing the world without you even realising
Nina Gualinga She has become the face of the indigenous Kichwa movement to protect the Ecuadorian Amazon from corporate interests. Her village, Sarayaku, sued the Quito Government in 2012, resulting in the protection of its land from oil exploration. Gualinga was present at COP21: she sailed down the River Seine in Paris in a canoe from