Video (srf.ch)
Every minute, about one truckload of plastic waste ends up in the ocean worldwide. Are we in Switzerland partly responsible for this problem?
CO2-Zertifikate: Nur ein Bruchteil fliesst in Klimaprojekte
Die Firma South Pole verkauft CO2-Zertifikate. Mit diesen können Firmen oder Konsumenten Klimaschäden ausgleichen. Doch von den freiwilligen Zahlungen kommt kaum etwas bei Klimaschutzprojekten an.More...
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Info about the Tree of live (onezoom.org)
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Sway presentation about The Zinal Glacier<=
Info about the Zinalgletscher (in German)
Located in the canton of Valais, it covers an area of 13.36 km2 and its length is 7.29 km (data from 2010). In 1973, the glacier covered an area of 15.70 km2. The relative area change amounts to -14.90 %.
The Glacier of Zinal was in 2013 just under seven kilometres long, so since 1973 it has receded (sich zurückgzogen/geschmolzen) by a little more than half a kilometre.
For more data and statistics:
Factsheet Glacier de Zinal (glamos.ch)
List of glaciers in Switzerland (wikipedia.org)
Life, for eternal us, is now
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It seems a miracle
The Namib, a coastal desert in Southern Africa. The cold Benguela current causes the cooled down sea air to carry almost no water inland. The endemic species of the Namib have adapted to this situation, e.g. the Welwitschia or "fog beetles".
Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55–80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert in the world.More...
A modern smartphone contains a large number of elements (highlighted in color). Titanium, for example, is used in the manufacture of the SIM card (light blue), and cobalt in the manufacture of the battery (orange). Hydrogen, which is contained in the housing (yellow), was already used in phones of earlier generations (1960 and 1990). Other elements, such as helium, molybdenum and cadmium, which were used in the past, are no longer present in modern smartphones. (translated by DeepL.com)
=>Full article in German (woz.ch, Le Monde diplomatique, Oct 21): The-eco-sins-of-the-digital-industry.pdf (879.02 kb)