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Biodiversity in Colombia: Ecosystems, Species and Threats
Colombia is one of the planet’s 17 megadiverse countries: it is home to more than 83,000 recorded species and is considered the world’s second most biodiverse country, concentrating close to 10% of the planet’s biodiversity on just 0.22% of the Earth’s surface. It also has 311 types of continental and coastal ecosystems. What are the…
Sustainable Products and Greenwashing: Marketing or Reality?
It is hard for consumers to tell whether a product is truly sustainable, because many companies exaggerate or lie about its environmental benefits. One example is Volkswagen, which promoted its diesel cars as greener while, as revealed in 2015, it had rigged the engine software of about 11 million vehicles to cheat emissions tests. Looking…
Environmental Problems and Solutions: The Sustainable Development Path
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. What does sustainable development propose in response to the ecological problem? Economic growth that conserves the environment and uses resources rationally. Between 1950 and 2015, humanity manufactured some 8,300 million tonnes of plastic;…
