News from the Earth

Over the past few years honeybee and other insect pollinator populations have fallen. According to the FAO, 71 out of 100 of the most important crops reproduce thanks to pollination. Over 80% of the crops that feed the human population depend on the free labor honeybees offer us. But we can help!

A new study has taken into account the temperatures recorded every day in the Northern Hemisphere between 1952 and 2011. The result is that the duration of summer has already passed from 78 days of 1952 to 95 of 2011.

World Wildlife Day will be celebrated this 3rd March 2021 under the theme "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet", as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent areas. 

By helping protect the polar bear, we’re helping to make sure the Arctic food chain stays healthy, for the benefit of wildlife and people in and beyond the Arctic. The Arctic provides fish for millions of people.

Plastic pollution is the ocean's new cancer, but the good news is that we can all help clean up the planet!

A problem that not only concerns the health of the fauna, but also ours. Plastic, which ends up in the food chain, puts commercial fishing and aquaculture at risk. A significant risk for 1.4 billion people for which fish is one of the main sources of protein. 80% of the waste consists of plastic.

Since a century the anthropogenic mass doubles on average every 20 years. Since the '50s of the last century there has been a strong acceleration, which has become dizzying since the beginning of the third millennium. For each living human being, the mass of objects produced is more than its own body weight.

582,538 people signed up to try a month as vegans in January, far exceeding the target of 500 thousand and the record of last year of 400 thousand. This shows how Veganuary is able to involve different people, even those who would like to approach a vegetable diet and are looking for useful advice and information.

Urban development has compromised that primordial link that united the environment and people. How is it possible to restore it? 

By a conscious and responsible lifestyle. Every daily gesture directly affects our well-being and our surroundings. 

The attempt to increase the number of whales could be seen as a benign form of geo-engineering. A large whale absorbs on average 33 tonnes of CO2, while a tree, for example, stores less than 50 kg annually.

In Europe alone, more than 4000 types of vegetables we eat depend on bees. If these precious insects disappear, the consequences for food production and the environment would be devastating. Who would pollinate crops?

The concept of yoga is holistic. It teaches that we can't live without others, we cannot live without animals, we cannot live without nature. We are part of nature way more than we pretend to be. Nature is where we came from.