The world wants more electric cars. Until we have figured out how organic batteries will look like, cobalt demand will continue to increse. With less… Most important: The black gold as it was called in the old world, remains under the seabed. – The politicians took to reason for once,… Russia is giving the iron in the East. Warmer climate and less ice in the Northeast passage means the Suez and Panama canals are feeling… The red algae Griffithsia is native to coral reefs around the Canary Island. This can potentially be used as medicine to treat Covid-19. Drug manufacturers…
Electric cars drive deep sea mining
Travel letter from Lofoten
Russia has a 2300 billion dollar Arctic plan
Covid-19 medicines offshore the Canary Islands?
Snow canons to save coral reefs
The coral reefs a few hundred meters from where this picture is taken are still safe. When I read about the Australians that plan to create whiter clouds, I remember one time in Beijing in October 2009. I was in China as an adviser to the Norwegian Red Cross Secretary General for a meeting with…
New deadly stroke for the Great Barrier Reef
For the third time in just five years the Great Barrier Reef is suffering coral bleaching. Even if bleaching can occur naturally and corals can recover, there are limits to how much even the greatest of them all can take. During the last two weeks of March professor Terry Hughes at the ARC Centre of…
The wildfires in Australia and coral death
We have all seen how the wildfires in Australia have led to death and destruction. 28 people have died. More than 3,000 homes are gone or damaged. 100,000 square kilometers of forests is turned to ashes. And one billion animals have lost their lives or are injured: Koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, birds and other species that…
The time machine in Italy and the invisible threat
A threat or a danger is usually something the human body ether see, hear or smell. Your nerve system tells you to protect yourself to survive and to avoid pain. Most people realize that excessive emissions of CO2 is the biggest threat to life on earth the coming decades. CO2 is not poisonous like mustard…
