Your birthday is a very special day of the year. Hopefully the weather will be fine so you can do special things: throw snowballs, have a garden-party in the sun, enjoy the colored leaves on a forest hike or fly…
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CO₂, climate crisis – everyone knows by now that we have a problem. To deal with it properly, we also need to understand the math behind it. The greenhouse gases that make our earth warmer stay in the atmosphere for…
“Just our children still read in paper books, my wife and I are always using e-book readers “. I recently heard this statement from a friend (bookworm!). E-book readers have been around for quite some time, but it’s only recently…
Our food supply is largely dependent on imports of agricultural products. The war in Ukraine, which is a major producer of wheat and oilseeds, and the resulting disruption of supply chains make us painfully aware of this. Now, some European…
Waste production is a global problem. Worldwide, people are looking for solutions for this. Waste is produced in various locations. How much do waste do we produce at home? The Eurpoean Union tries to reduce our waste production. For instance,…
Plastic bottles, made of polymers (polyethylene terephthalate, PET), are part of our daily lives, but, unfortunately, they often end up in our terrestrial environment. The plastic structures decay and over time transform into microplastic, which travels through and mixes with…
St. Peter is a rapidly growing district in the periphery of a capital city. Nowadays, more than 10,000 people live in the three largest housing settlements and yet the area is inadequately connected to public transport, thus the car density…
Now that it’s autumn time, it’s striking once again how much nature changes with the seasons – crazy, isn’t it? All of a sudden chestnuts or walnuts fall from the trees, which can be collected, the leaves change color, mushrooms…
When we think of sand, what first comes to mind? Sure, summer, sun, sunshine – and this of course, on the beach. Sand is perfect for digging in your feet or building sandcastles, but not only for that! Without sand,…
Spring is here, holidays are approaching and as an end-of-exams celebration, students and their families throw a lot of confetti over the celebrating ones. Confetti is difficult to clean up and often end up in the stormwater in shape of micro…
