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Coronavirus and climate crisis, is there hope?

When the Coronavirus pandemic paralysed transport, global pollution levels declined drastically, unveiling a blue sky even in Beijing. And in Venice, clear water replaced the city’s notoriously murky canals, it reaffirmed the radical notion that nature’s resurrection was possible.  However, the economic impact of nature’s renewal has been significant. The Read more…

By Shamim Malekmian, 3 yearsMay 20, 2020 ago
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Focus on: The Irish Seedsavers Association

Conservation, Food Security & Coronavirus Before spring flourishes into life at Irish Seed Savers, we are usually finishing the cultivation of our gardens and orchards — turning over green manures, tending to overwintering crops in the polytunnels, pruning our apple trees and setting up irrigation systems to ensure a successful Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsMay 15, 2020 ago
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Hiding in plain sight: Covid-19 and air pollution

April 3rd, 2020 Coronavirus is hiding in plain sight. The idea of an illness-prompting, tiny particle, invisible to our eyes may sound novel and frightening to some. For scientists and ecological researchers, specialising in air pollution; however, this is nothing new. Air polluting particles have been undermining our health in Read more…

By Shamim Malekmian, 3 yearsApril 3, 2020 ago
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Our new Covid-19 reality ‘shattering the illusion of control’

March 26th, 2020 Right now, millions of people around the world are waking each day with a sensation of panic in the pit of their stomach, a feeling that likely gnaws at them constantly, and is sharpened with every news bulletin and headline. For anyone who has been closely following Read more…

By admin, 3 years ago
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Coronavirus puts degrowth on new, rapid trajectory

March 24th, 2020 SARS-Cov-2 has put the idea of degrowth in a new perspective and on a necessarily more rapid time scale. Up to this point, those writing about degrowth envisioned a contraction of economic activity over years or decades. But now the global pandemic is requiring action in days, Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsMarch 24, 2020 ago
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Coronavirus: zoonotic origins of our own making?

March 20th, 2020 Coronaviruses or Coronoviridae are a large family of viruses that can infect humans or animals. A small number of these cause very serious respiratory illnesses in humans but they also include a huge number of other viruses that are not harmful at all, or cause very mild symptoms.  Read more…

By Niall Sargent, 3 yearsMarch 20, 2020 ago
Climate Change

Short-term emissions drop nothing to celebrate

March 19th, 2020 For the past few days as the COVID-19 pandemic upends global routines, social media has been flooded with people sharing hopeful messages about the improved state of the climate. Posts speak of a healing climate as the coronavirus and protective measures impacting economic and transportation patterns give Read more…

By Shamim Malekmian, 3 yearsMarch 19, 2020 ago
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