The current biodiversity crisis is still underrepresented in the news. I recently started the “Hedgehogstreet” project in the city I live in.
The threat from climate change, if tackled now, offers the possibility for a real societal renaissance. Each of us can contribute as a enlightened customer and citizen/voter.
Every small step we take as individuals helps but a real transition will require collective action at all levels. Research can help.
I am Hendrik Wouters, researcher at Ghent University. I study the emergence of heat waves, drought and intense precipitation. I have participated in the latest climate report from (…)
What moves me the most is the definitive disappearance of species and the climate sceptic movements. I try to be an actor of change on a daily basis.
It’s not a matter of one ‘or’ the other. We all will have to unite in doing everything that can be done together.
Huge biodiversity losses are taking place, caused by global warming and accelerated by massive deforestation.
Societal change, not climate change, requires political will. And this, in the end, requires pressure from citizen, at all levels of society.
Everything has to change: behaviors, spiritual life, political engagement… From a systemic point of view too, we have to move towards a real ecological transition.
My main concerns are about the biodiversity crisis. Experts have recognised three main causes. The first main cause depends on habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation (…)
Scientific evidence shows that climate changes are ongoing. To mitigate those changes, we need to rapidly change our lifestyles, and not wait for a strong political action.
In our struggle to make this world a better place, our best weapon remains our determination to change ourselves. “Be the change you want to see in this world.” Mahatma Gandhi
Lucien Bettendorff / Research Director F.R.S.-FNRS
I do not think that there are environmental concerns specific to my field.They are in common with all fields in biological, chemical and biomedical sciences, but here is clearly (…)