It is estimated that every 2.6 seconds, a new chemical substance is isolated or synthesized, adding to nearly 200 million identified chemical substances in the world. While many of these are essential for society and not harmful to the environment, one effect of this proliferation of chemicals in our everyday lives has been the increase of polluted environments with multiple contaminants.
If you venture into the woods in Southern Finland, around the Hanko area, you’ll find groups of mounds with hundreds of ants dwelling on top that will spit acid at you when provoked.
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) To read part I, click here The Great food transformation: Turning the problem into a solution? So, is the planetary health diet the… Read More »World Changing Diet –Part II
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) The Planetary Boundaries: Have we pushed our planet to the limit? “It is a planetary emergency,” says world-renowned Professor Johan Rockström in his… Read More »World Changing Diet – Part I
Illustration by Ushanandini Mohanraj What is creativity? The ability for creative thinking is often attributed to people we consider great thinkers. Also artists like dancers, musicians, and painters are often… Read More »On the Relation between Climate and Creativity – a time line
intervieweeAndreas Nyholm has a background in geophysics and for almost 10 years he has worked as a weatherman—the kind you see on television every evening. He was headhunted on live… Read More »A Cool Career in a Hot Field: Andreas Predicts the Weather and Conveys it with Augmented Reality
There is a organization called the ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’ doing assessment of climate change.
A trillion-tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km and one of the biggest on record, calved away from the Larsen C Ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula between July 10 and 12, 2017.
October is our Climate Change theme month. This month we would like to give you a little taste of Climate and Earth System Science and prepare you for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2017