THE PROBLEM OF OVERFISHING Overfishing is among the activities that threaten the existence of sea life and, consequently, contribute to climate change, endangering the condition of human life. It consists of “the removal of a species of fish from a body of water at a rate that the species cannot replenish, resulting in those species becoming underpopulated in that area”.…
What are food loss and food waste? Goal 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) is reducing food waste on a global scale. According to a survey by FAO, presented in 2011, although world hunger has been increasing, in fact, an estimated 1/3 of food is lost or goes to waste. Indeed, there is…
Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world because of the high possibility of natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, fires, epidemics. Situated in meridional Asia, it does not have access to the sea, and it contains the Himalayas and Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The climate is…
This field of science aims to influence geological factors. Geoengineering main projects are divided into two categories: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) SRM’s goal is to reflect space the sun rays and lower the global temperature. It goes from setting up millions of mirrors to spraying enormous quantities of sulfates in the…
Sea level rise is a phenomenon caused by the melting of the glaciers and partly attributable also to the warming of the surface oceans. Ocean and sea levels from all over the world are growing and this process is becoming faster and faster. Between 1991 and 2019 oceans have risen about 75 mm and the…
2020 has been estimated to be the worst year for the most dramatic natural disasters due to the worsening of climate change. Noteworthy are Cyclone Amphan, said to be the Bay of Bengal’s fiercest storm this century, which hit the coasts of eastern India and Bangladesh in May 2020 rendering an estimated 500,000 people homeless…
