Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This article was originally published by The Revelator On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of...
Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature
Integrated interpretations of rivers as vital and interconnected living and evolving entities have extensive practical application — from their revered preservation throughout Indigenous territories, to modern adaptations of holistic Indigenous worldviews, to advances...
Deforestation in Colombia: The Complex and Interconnected Drivers
Colombia is the world’s most biodiverse country by area, but its rich forested ecosystems are facing existential threats. By Daniel Henryk Rasolt This article was originally published by The Ecologist Deforestation is on the rise in megadiverse Colombia. Attempting to...
‘They Cannot Keep Us Silent’
In the paramos of the Colombian Andes, Indigenous leaders face persecution as they defend the rights of people and the environment. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This story was originally published by Earth Island Journal. Version en español Maria Pito has dedicated her life...
From a Vibrant Past to a Desolate Future: La Guajira and the Wayuu Tribe of Colombia
La Guajira is a dry and windy peninsular desert region between Northeast Colombia and Northwest Venezuela. The striking landscape has been harsh and borderline uninhabitable for many thousands of years. The southernmost parts of the peninsula border the...
The Social and Environmental Paradox of “Peace” in Colombia
Colombia is a megadiverse country, with Pacific and Atlantic coasts, distinct ranges of glaciated mountain peaks, cloud forests, paramos and two separate tropical forests. With only 0.7% of the Earth’s land surface, Colombia contains more than 10% of the known...
Magnesium: Connecting Human and Planetary Health to the Stars
Our Elemental Origins It is easy for us humans – with our self-proclaimed superior intelligence over other species, and ability to innovate and exploit the natural world to our whims – to forget or ignore that we are in fact part of nature. This is not solely an...
The True Cost: Negative Externalities of Energy and Food and Failures of the Free Market
Climate change is a reality, and the depletion of a whole range of fundamental ecosystems and resources of our planet is staring us right in the face. Along with rising global health problems related to pollution and diet, how is it that so many of the principal...