Article: Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world

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Article: Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world

Microplastic is one of the most underestimated risks of present-day life and the near future. It is found even in the remotest corners of the world, and is known to

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Essay: Hiking

I want to live in the woods with predators. I don’t want to be the most dangerous animal in the woods when I go into them. I like knowing that

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Article: How to Decolonize the Permaculture Movement

Some good and important (and one misleading) point about permaculture as a movement. The author criticizes that permaculture is sometimes misused as a business (for those $2,000 permaculture courses) and

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Article: Megafaunal extinctions driven by too much moisture

In contrast to popular opinion, prehistoric hunters didn’t mindlessly hunt megafauna into extinction. Archeologists now found out that many bigger animals went extinct due to a rapid change in climate

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Article: Climate change is altering global air currents – increasing droughts, heatwaves and floods

Climate change has impacted yet another planetary system, causing even more droughts, heatwaves and floods in its course of spindling downwards the path of the sixth mass extinction event –

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Article: Rare deadly heatwaves could strike every year even if global warming targets are met

Extreme droughts and heat waves like the one that killed 3,400 people in India and Pakistan in 2015 (with the temperature being above 60C) will be far more common in

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Essay: What Does the World Dream?

Today’s long read: Ramon Elani gives us a great introduction to poet Robinson Jeffers’ works, who draws the correct conclusions as to what our place in this universe is and

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Article: Combined effect of brighter sun and CO₂ emissions leads to further warming

It seems like every week scientists find a new aspect about climate change that was either underestimated, overlooked, not included, forgotten, or ignored. It is safe to say that even

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Article: Humans could be among the victims of sixth ‘mass extinction’

It is of utmost importance that every human on this planet understands how serious our impact on the global ecosystem really is. We will all experience massive disruptive changes in

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Article: Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world

One of the most important articles I’ve read in a long time. The author, David R. Montgomery (Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington) will soon publish his

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