Ecology and Environment

LIVE SHOW – Friday, August 20 at 10 AM On this show, we speak with Giorgio Cantarini, award-winning actor from Life is Beautiful and Gladiator, who is now involved on new production by Alveare Cinema in Rome, Italy. The film…

The Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Argentina has just released “En el nombre del litio”, a documentary produced by FARN and Calma Cine that deals with the situation in northern Argentina regarding the exploitation of this “wonder mineral”. Directed…

“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” By Domenico Barbato and Manlio Pertout  – The Human Exploring Society This is the…

Wildfires are incinerating forests in the American West, Turkey, Greece and Siberia, destroying millions of acres, burning entire towns to the ground, and blanketing vast regions under plumes of smoke stretching thousands of miles. The term “megadrought” is now used…

In its first major climate report since 2013, the IPCC offers its starkest warning yet: Serious impacts of global warming are now unavoidable. By Reynard Loki In a grim report released on August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…

Press Release by Geri Matthew Carretero A total of 57, 954 individuals signed a petition urging the 18th Congress of the Philippines to immediately regulate and ban problematic single-use plastic packaging and products in the country. “The petition mirrors that…

Crises, whether collective or personal, test our critical sense and our ability to analyze. Distracted by the exceptionality of the event that is hitting us, we often neglect important issues, delegating to other decisions that will affect our lives. Today,…

BOOK REVIEW     The world is on fire like never before: “Wildfires Have Erupted Across the Globe Scorching Places That Rarely Burned Before” (CNN headlines July 22, 2021) but not only is fire raging, Biblical floods are destroying entire…

4 August 2021, Quezon City.  While governments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have individually taken action to address incidents of illegal waste shipments from affluent and more developed countries, the 10-member bloc has yet to unify and…

“Until 1979 and even 1980, the pages of El Mercurio called for public auctions of huge plots of land, almost all of which were suitable for forestry. The generalised economic crisis of those years meant that only a handful of…