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Protecting Children in a World of Social Media

April 9, 2023
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

August 18, 2021
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Multiple Actors in the Amazon Deforestation

January 31, 2023
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January 5, 2021

The Ones Who Challenge the Virus

The refusal to wear a mask and to form agglomerations seems to be a current affair in the distribution of Covid-19 nowadays. The ones who challenge the virus putting themselves at risk and infecting others should be held accountable. We read on any press platform news about people protesting lock-downs and against the use of masks. They were promoting rallies […]

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January 5, 2021

“Baked In” Global Warming Higher than Thought

“Baked In” Global Warming refers to the amount of warming that will occur due to the gasses (carbon dioxide, methane, etc.) already put into the atmosphere. This is also referred to by scientists as “committed warming”. In a recently published paper in Nature, scientists have determined that the amount of warming due to already released gasses will exceed the goal […]

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January 4, 2021

Is Covid-19 a reaction of a sick Planet?

Many of us question everyday the origin of a lethal virus which has taken thousands of lives and brought pain and despair to everybody all over the Globe. In every corner of the world there was an empty chair at the Christmas table and the joy of the season was taken away by a terrible pandemic. We listen to scientists, […]

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January 4, 2021

Rare Painted Bunting spotted in Maryland park

This weekend a rare Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) was spotted in a Washington area park. Perhaps this was a sign of a better year to come. Birders from all around showed up to see the unusual visitor, the Washington Post reported. Leader photo by By Doug Janson – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, courtesy of Wikipedia.

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January 4, 2021

In issuing new dietary guidelines, Trump once again spurns science

From the Washington Post, 3 January, 2021: “A GROUP of 20 doctors, nutritionists and public health experts from the country’s major academic centers was hired by the federal government to assist in the formulation of new dietary guidelines. This independent advisory committee, charged with offering science-based advice on what to eat and drink to meet nutritional needs and reduce the […]

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January 1, 2021

Rare Bush Dog Sighted in Brazil

A rare Bush Dog sighted in Brazil. The Bush Dog (Speothos venaticus) is also called the Vinegar Dog, and was recently caught on a camera trap in the privately-owned Reserva Natural Serra do Tombador in the municipality of Cavalcante in Goias state. The reserve, which is maintained by Fundação Grupo Boticário de Proteção à Natureza, has been surveying the local […]

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December 30, 2020

Pantanal Fires

An environmental tragedy in the Pantanal marked 2020. In the last Southern Hemisphere spring dantesque scenes of fire were shown on TV to terrified Brazilians. An area of approximately 24,000 square kilometers was lost as of September 2020, impacting the lives of endangered species, and ecosystems. The flames devastated about 10% of one of the most important biomes in the […]

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December 29, 2020

Climate and Disease – Part I

Dengue is a tropical, vector spread disease which has become endemic in all hemispheres of the world. The two primary vectors, Aedes aegypti, and Aedes albopictus are present in much of the US and are spreading due to climactic and human factors.

Climate 0 2 min read
December 29, 2020

What would happen if all the bees were gone?

In the last decades, the spreading disappearance of bees has caught the attention of many around the world. Gardens and backyards once packed with these wonderful natural pollinators dancing around flowers are being visited less and less every year. The bees definitely seem to be disappearing, what will happen when they are gone? The come and go of these insects, […]

Opinion 1 1 min read
December 23, 2020

A Look at the Amazon

Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Prophecy The Amazon forest is a major element of climate stability in most of South America. The rainforest also affects the rest of the planet. The forest regulates the rain cycle […]

Climate 1 2 min read

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A Journal's Origin

In the middle of a pandemic emotions and reflections seem to be more intense than in other times. We develop questions in our mind about ourselves like what we really are, what is the role of our existence, no matter where you live in any continent!

 

Staying isolated, watching the pain of the ones who lost their loved ones, feeling small and helpless we devoted our time analyzing what is going on around the Globe.

 

During a lockdown, we wake up to the fact that we all belong to a whole, to the same planet and we find that anybody in any continent can observe and voice opinions about the latest events such as the Virus, Climate Changing, Global Warming and so goes on!

 

We are surrounded by uncertainties, fears, and doubts. What is Global Warming, is it a reaction of the Planet against the pollution of the seas, against the devastation of forests, against the growing use of natural resources?

 

We are in dark mode, looking around us, becoming more curious, waiting for answers that may not come, but yet all of us live on the same planet.

 

We are part of the problem because we make part of this as a whole and have the obligation to be responsible and responsive to what is affecting the Globe and work with the possible means in our hands to make it better.

 

So, it was in the middle of that, which was maybe the most difficult time in our lives, the center of the biggest sanitary crisis that we decided to voice our thoughts through a journal. This journal is a loner, it has no political ties or ideology, no pretension to be something bigger than it is, it is just the expression of something that has been looked at, but never seen from what is happening on our planet these days!