(Or how we can cool the planet with forests.) All life on our planet depends on water, from tiny bacteria and sea urchins to huge elephants, whales and giant sequoias. Where you find water, you find life, even in extreme places like in boiling hot springs, in lakes below the…

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Forests, especially tropical rain forests, play a crucial role in cooling the Earth and countering global warming through at least seven mechanisms: 1. Evapotranspiration: Trees release water vapor through their leaves, which requires energy and cools the surrounding area, cooling the Earth’s surface. 2. Shade and Soil Moisture: Forest canopies provide shade…

THE METAMORPHOSIS IS EMERGING AND WE ARE IT. “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Laureate The planet, the biosphere, nature, the climate, our societies…

Great article with a big hole in it. Faster than expected is also caused because the second leg of what causes climate change is largely ignored in the IPCC models. Greenhouse gasses heat up the planet, but they are not the only driver of climate change. While carbon gets all…

Humans suffer from shifting baseline syndrome, which makes it difficult to realize how conditions on our beautiful living planet are deteriorating fast, just not fast enough for individual people to perceive it. As John Cabot sailed from England to North America in 1497, his ship encountered massive schools of codfish off…

Life is based on a complex network of interactions, which take place at microscopic scales in biological cells, and in tiny ecosystems. One tea spoon of healthy soil can hold up to a billion bacteria, several meters of fungal threads, several thousand protozoa, and hundreds of nematodes. The total surface…

Can we stabilize the climate and cool the planet within twenty years? “If you want to make major changes, you have to change the way you SEE things.” How the climate really works Greenhouse gases heat up the planet, but they are not the only driver of climate change. While…

WE KNOW HOW TO REGENERATE THE EARTH AND STABILIZE THE CLIMATE We know how to stabilize the climate. The key is to see the biodiversity crisis, the massive land use change and exploitation and pollution of land and oceans as the principal cause of climate destabilization. Do you agree? …