What the World Can Learn from Brazil’s Shifting Stance on Science
How the country fostered research and innovation through scientific investment – and what happened when it disinvested. This article was originally published by Undark In 2010 Brazil’s economy was booming, students were entering higher education institutions...
Self-Imposed Isolation of Indigenous Communities Due to COVID-19 Reinforces the Need for Clean Off-Grid Energy Sources
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt This story was originally published by Resilience. Strengthening the socio-ecological systems of Indigenous communities is of high priority for achieving global “sustainable development” and environmental goals. For Indigenous people to remain...
Scientists must learn how to interact with Indigenous people
Amazing opportunity for progress lies at the intersection of complex systems science and traditional worldviews. Can we find the humility to embrace it? Daniel Henryk Rasolt This story was originally published by Ensia. Last February, Jesus Rotieroke and I sat...
Critically Endangered Colombian Glaciers Face Extinction
Tropical mountain glaciers are rapidly melting around the world (up to 99% are in South America), but those that remain in Colombia could be entirely gone before 2050. Colombia has six remaining designated glaciers, in four distinct glacierized areas. The four areas...
The Temperature-Driven Disappearance of the World’s Tropical Glaciers
Glaciers have shaped the landscapes and mindscapes of much of the Earth and its inhabitants, ever since parts of the planet were cool and wet enough to start forming ice masses. But the Earth’s current Late Cenozoic collection of glaciers (which first started forming...
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...