Tag: environmental Protection
The return of the moors – knowledge
If you sink into the world of the moors, you come across so many wonderful words that you could fill an entire lexicon. Oligotroph-sour, mesotroph-subneutral, mesotroph-calcareous and particularly beautiful: “rewetting”.…
Environmental disaster in the Mar Menor – Seahorses suffocating – Knowledge
The seahorses were once the silent stars in Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon, the Mar Menor in southern Spain. Many older Spaniards today tell of how they dived in the shallow…
How vegans and vegetarians contribute to global water scarcity – economy
A study shows: Those who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet can do more harm to the environment than a meat eater because many plants have to be watered. This…
Journalism and the environment: it doesn’t get greener – media
For a long time, the climate crisis was considered one problem among many in editorial offices. Newspapers are now setting up new sections, broadcasters are developing climate formats, and eco-guides…
“Persistent, arguable and convincing”: 50 years of Greenpeace | NDR.de – news
Status: 08/30/2021 9:17 p.m. The environmental organization Greenpeace celebrated its 50th anniversary in Stralsund. The spectacular actions of the environmentalists cause a stir again and again. Chancellor Merkel also came…
Biodiversity: melting peaks
In the Alps, temperatures rise twice as fast as the global average due to climate change. How does that change the animal and plant world? A mountain tour with two…
How the 1973 film “Soylent Green” anticipated our present – culture
from Jan Heidtmann Washing hands, with soap for at least 20 seconds, lathering and scrubbing, is clear in these times. It is surely just a coincidence that this act was…
Landscape architecture: old trees are allowed to live on – style
For 150 years, the Japanese Acer palmatum was allowed to hold its finely fanned, tapered leaves in the wind in front of the Zurich Congress House and stretch twelve meters…
Photographer, helicopter pilot, adventurer: a portrait of Florian Wagner – Munich
The helicopter’s engine stutters and they land in the middle of the South African bushland. At some point a shepherd appears. The man says the next settlement is an hour’s…
Climate Column: Mourning the Climate – Knowledge
The presenter Katrin Bauerfeind is only funny at first glance recently wrote on Twitter. Regarding the discussion about an own environmental program before the “Tagesschau”, she wrote: “If things continue…