Tag: clima

• Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

  July 1, 2022

  Near a sharp bend on the Itaquaí River, perched on a steep muddy bank, a lone wooden structure marks the last outpost of a fragile resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/amazon-brazil-drugs-fish-logging-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira more ›

• Imagining Climate Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson

  May 8, 2022

  Kim Stanley Robinson, the legendary science-fiction novelist, has a private utopian hope: “to dodge a mass extinction event.” He joins Azeem Azhar to explore his recent novel, The Ministry For the Future, and… more ›

• Indigenous peoples guard ‘the lungs of the planet’ for all of us

  April 3, 2021

  The Amazon is vital for the survival of the global biosphere. It produces oxygen and sequesters huge amounts of carbon (2.2 billion tons annually). Moreover, according to the “biotic pump“ theory,… more ›

• Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

  October 5, 2020

  The findings, published in the journal Physical Review E, are proof of a theory the physicists developed at the U of A three years ago that freestanding graphene—a single layer… more ›