https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/09/pristine-seas-enric-sala-we-must-stop-harming-nature-to-prevent-deadly-disease-coronavirus/

Well, at least the ozone hole is closing. Government regulation can work…

http://Global efforts on ozone help reverse southern jet stream damage https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/25/global-efforts-on-ozone-help-reverse-southern-jet-stream-damage?

CORONAVIRUS is having a huge impact on human society. Social distancing is occupying people’s thoughts, with all the ramifications it brings. How safe are our older relatives? What is happening with the exams? How will the economy cope? So, is our increasing population making it more likely to get pandemics in the future?

Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/halt-destruction-nature-worse-pandemics-top-scientists?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_In_die_Zwischenablage_kopieren

But there is a silver lining. Governments are taking different precautionary measures. Maybe we will learn from this crisis, some ways of dealing with Global Heating. Here are some articles where one can read further.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/coronavirus-holds-key-lessons-on-how-to-fight-climate-change

http://Covid-19 is nature’s wake-up call to complacent civilisation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/25/covid-19-is-natures-wake-up-call-to-complacent-civilisation?

http://’Tip of the iceberg’: is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe?

Sunflowers have much more potential for humanity than just delivering pretty flowers and sunflower oil as Dr. Erika Nehnevajova explained to the Planet strikes back AG of Schiller Gymnasium in October 2019. Based on her research in the university of Bern, sunflowers are capable of removing heavy metal contamination from soil more efficiently than the invasive soil washing procedure. As an added bonus the sunflowers concentrate the heavy metals in small amounts in their leaves and stems. The sunflowers can then be harvested and small amounts mixed with other organic material, which can then be used as biofuel.

This procedure has not yet been carried out on an industrial scale but as agricultural land becomes scarcer and the demand for renewable energy rises, maybe this concept will become more viable .