This June 5th marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, with the theme “Beat plastic pollution” and promoting the search for solutions to this problem. The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1972 established the date, directed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), being celebrated from June 5 since 1973. This year [...]
Two headlines published this year, which speak for themselves: “2023-2027 will probably be the hottest five-year period on record”. “Exxon posts record $56bn profit for 2022 in historic high for western oil industry”. The first refers, as published on its website France24 (05.17.2023), to “It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period [...]
Since 1963, every July 7 we celebrate the International Soil Conservation Day, in memory of the American researcher Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennet who dedicated himself to the study of production and care of the soil, to maintain the balance of the environment. What is the soil? Soil is one of the most important resources to [...]
Updated June 2022 From today's headline (22-6-2022), World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2022. “Drought in Chile: the effects of climate change and the overexploitation of reserves. Since 2007, Chile has suffered an extreme drought. In many regions, the flow of streams and rivers has been reduced by between 50 and more than 90 [...]
On June 8 we celebrate World Oceans Day 2022, this year framed in the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences and within which the Conference of the Oceans is held, between June 27 and July 1, 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal and which will be organized jointly with the government of Kenya. The theme of 2022 Revitalization: [...]
Like every year, every April 22 we celebrate International Mother Earth Day. The theme for the year 2022 is “Invest in our planet”. We find ourselves with oceans and seas increasingly suffocated by plastic pollution. The followed rise in temperatures to extreme levels. Forest fires, floods, cyclones, tornadoes and other climatic events affect millions of [...]
“Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain”. I have borrowed the first lines of the poem “Romance Sonámbulo” by the famous Spanish poet Federico García Lorca to write this article, in tribute to our planet on the occasion of International [...]
Groundwater, making the invisible visible Every March 22 we celebrate World Water Day, and in 2022 the theme chosen by the United Nations is “Groundwater, making the invisible visible”. It seeks to focus attention on the importance that the main source of water for human consumption is groundwater, so it must be protected by giving [...]
Forests and sustainable production and consumption The theme of the International Day of Forests 2022 “Forests and sustainable production and consumption”, has been chosen to draw attention to this problem and to consciously promote the use of sustainable wood for people and the planet. Forests are one of the main means of absorbing CO2, fundamental [...]
On March 21 and 22, the “International Day of Forests” and the “World Water Day” are celebrated. Let the opportunity be propitious to remember that deforestation of forests, drought and water scarcity are closely related to each other, with serious environmental and social consequences. In almost the entire planet, water scarcity has become an increasingly [...]
