Tag: environmental Protection
“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…
Ministry of Veto for more climate protection? – Knowledge
This week I was actually on the road outside of Berlin again, on business. Such trips have become rare since the pandemic, bad in a job that thrives so heavily…
SZ podcast “On the Point” – News from 08/09/2021 – Knowledge
“The alarm bells are sounding deafening,” says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in view of the IPCC’s new report. Accordingly, our earth is warming quickly and everywhere with increasing consequences.…
Climate crisis: we are failures
Heat waves, storms, forest fires – the consequences of the climate crisis have been known for years and yet far too little happens. Why the human species fails to respond…
Isar in Munich: resort, party zone and living space – Munich
Of Thomas approach Munich is a city of water. Streams run through Munich above or below ground, fountains gush in numerous places or water fountains shoot into the sky. In…