Red Meat consumption – an international collaborative research
The year is 2030. The meat industry is thriving and occupying over 80% of the world’s agricultural fields. Global warming affects countries worldwide. Plagues spread, and former endangered species can be seen only in pictures. According to the United Nations, famine has become a threatening reality. Cardiovascular and cancer diseases have risen considerably. Does this sound like a gloomy forecast or a futuristic reality? Due to the probability of such scenarios, we have decided to conduct a comprehensive study on one of the factors that has undoubtedly affected both the environment and human health: the increase of red meat consumption.
Lucília Jorge
50 Shades of Sustainability: Game of Cars
Cars are one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide – electric cars are presented as a solution. There are many factors you should consider before making the decision of whether to opt for an electric vehicle (EV) or an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV). We’ll be going through the pros and cons, questioning whether EVs are, indeed, more sustainable than ICEVs, and if the population is willing to change to a greener option of vehicles.
One single seed will destroy your ecosystem
Two distant countries, yet there are so many similarities, like cultural or linguistic ones, between Portugal and Romania. Environmental issues, unfortunately, do not escape from these resemblances. The invasion of alien species (IAS) in both countries is something that we are used to seeing and the consequences are often the same, changing all the surrounding ecosystem and in the near future, possibly destroying it. All of this is being verified in the invasion and substitution of autochthonous species that, after their arrival, take advantage of the climate change in that country.
Diogo Martins
Pollinators, the queens of life
Everyone knows that if there is an essential living being to the human race, this being is the bee. Bees, like the bumblebee in the photography (Bombus), perform pollination, transporting the pollen between the plants. It is known that 2% of the bees in the world are responsible for pollinating 80% of the plantations on a global scale. For this reason, bees support life on Earth as we know it. Bee populations are declining. This is due to several reasons, such as: intensive agriculture, pesticide use, pollution, the introduction of invasive species, diseases and climate change.
Manuel João Ribeiro Nunes dos Santos Farias
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