World Oceans Day. Plastics, answers and other maritime data
World Oceans Day was proposed during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 1992, although it was only implemented in 2008. Since then, World Oceans Day is celebrated on June 8 of each year, by resolution of the General Assembly of the UN. Its objective is to raise awareness [...]
World Environment Day, environmental facts and curiosities
Beat Air Polution World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5, dedicated this year to the fight against air pollution with the moto “Beat Air pollution”. Established by the UN in 1972, during the Stockholm Conference, whose central theme was the normalization of human relations with the environment. China [...]
How we reach the Climate Emergency
On May 1, 2019 England declared the "Climate Emergency". It was the first country to do so. The threat that looms over life on our planet and the pressure of environmental groups made it take this big step. With the Climate Emergency Great Britain set name and last name [...]
Biodiversity in fast fall
Today is International Day for Biological Diversity. Biodiversity is everything. Any issue that we touch, such as global warming, climate change, sustainable economy is a function of it, since it is, for better or for worse, the recipient of our mistakes, successes or omissions. Be good the occasion to [...]
Bees have nothing to celebrate
Today is World Bee Day. Why do we say that these champions of pollination and laborious honey producers have nothing to celebrate The answer is: they are in danger of extinction, basically due to our activities. And this is not a little thing, because the small Antophilas, which is [...]
The asymmetric war against animals
"Protect our species", is the motto chosen by the UN for the celebration of Earth Day 2019, on April 22, in the framework of biodiversity in our privileged blue planet. Talking about biodiversity and species protection, without considering their recent demographic history, at least some of them, would be [...]
Games of Thrones or Climate Games?
About the premiere of the first episode of the last season of "Game of Thrones". I am 72 years old and I confess that I have never seen a delivery of the successful series. The reason: I need to attend to 24 different topics for having proposed to leave [...]
The largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet and the threat of drought
The Amazon River and its thousand tributaries make up the largest and most powerful watershed on the planet. Thanks to this enormous expanse of waters, wetlands and marshes, the Amazon rainforest, called the lung of the world, was developed over millions of years. This wonderful system is rich in [...]
Ask in the Forest Day: Who owns the Amazon rainforest?
Source: Amazonia Gallery A few months after we published this article, in March 2019, the fires in the Amazon rain forest happened. A tragedy whose consequences have not yet been quantified. The circumstances that motivated our writing a year ago are more valid today than [...]
The Nature Philosophy and the Antiplanet
I have been thinking for some time that we must return to the nature philosophy, the first philosophy, in order to give a metaphysical explanation to the destruction of the Earth by the "antiplanets", those Homo sapiens who, for different reasons and actions, they dedicate themselves to compromising, consciously [...]
Timeline of ozone layer holes
What is the ozone layer? When were your holes discovered? What are your causes? How are they closing? What is the Montreal Protocol? What is the Kigali Amendment? We present a brief chronology on these topics. Who discovered the ozone layer, when the alarms were lit on their holes, [...]
The COP25, Chile and its golden opportunity to make history
The COP25 will take place in Chile, between December 2 and 13 , 2019 Chile will host the COP25 in 2019, with the happy coincidence that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It was created with the premise of [...]
Summary and conclusions of the COP24, Katowice 2018
The lights turned off on the stage of the COP24. Without detracting from the selfless and continuous work of Mrs. Patricia Espinoza, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the great efforts that the UN has been developing in climate and environmental matters since [...]
Donald Trump’s opinion on climate change: “I don’t believe it”
At a time when deniers or skeptics of climate change are diminishing and losing their influence in the world, President Donald Trump emerges on the horizon as the number one denial of global warming, climate change and other disturbances in the Earth System, attributed to humans for science. This [...]
Everybody loves timber
An addiction hard to left The black widow is made love by the male, who in his last pleasant moments ignores his immediate future. Finished the loving rite the female sticks his poisonous sting and the unfortunate lover falls to the ground instantly. There is no scientific explanation for [...]