— Environment and climate —

The Earth, a safe place to live?

The environment as a liveable habitat for humans is limited by what is described as the planetary boundaries. These are the conditions necessary to make and keep life possible and comfortable now and in the future. These include a certain concentration of atmospheric oxygen and non-acidic drinking water. Our metabolism and the food pyramid depend on these limits. If we consider ourselves important and if human civilization and all the wars already fought had any meaning or purpose, we would do well not to throw the natural equilibria too far out of balance. But these equilibria are now compromised, due to our too great impact on the environment. But knowledge is power, which can lead to action.

Read:

• Volcanoes, plastic and mafia in the Gulf of Naples: the three heads of Cerberus.
  
• Ecocide in drought-struck Spain: untouchable developers destroy wild nature near Madrid.
  
• Ocean Planet: Cousteau, whales with legs and aquatic humans.
• Ukraine's chernozems: when bombs hit the soil.
• The Dust Bowl comes to Spain: desertification and soil erosion.
• Pyrocene: life on a blazing planet.
• Drought, Doñana and the Queen of the Marshes.
• Plastic eruption in the Gulf of Naples.
• The tree-of-heaven dilemma: a successful species in a deforested world.
• Planetary boundaries: a safe place for humans?
• Anthropogenic vs. natural climate change: which is advancing faster?
• Soil salinization: food security at risk.
• The nitrogen cycle: a story of food, bacteria and war.
• Ukraine's black gold and the world's most fertile soils.
• The origin of oxygen: when did we start breathing?