These pages provide theoretical and technical support for many of the key terms, systems and concepts that this site aims to explore. Here you’ll find vocabulary, definitions and explanations to help clarify doubts and go deeper into particular subjects.
CONSIDERATIONS: The greenhouse effect is a natural process that heats the Earth’s surface and helps maintain the temperatures suitable for life on the planet, allowing the natural regulation of different water states – most importantly, water in its liquid state that allows life to thrive. When the sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of […]
CONSIDERATIONS: Life on Earth is carbon based. Thanks to the presence of substances such as water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, all of which are essential for life, microbial ecosystems were able to develop 3.8 billion years ago, thus beginning to add the biological component to a system that was, until then, only physical and chemical. […]
CONSIDERATIONS: The increasing acidification of the oceans directly affects the role they’re able to play in the carbon cycle, exacerbating the effects of climate change and global warming. An ocean’s chemistry is extremely complex, so in order to understand the process of acidification we will focus on what is known as the Dissolved Inorganic Carbon […]
Here you will find links and book titles that offer both inspiration and information about the climate, ecosystems and the points of view that nurture our work. This page will provide an ever-growing bibliography: we aim to keep gathering and archiving useful sources as we go along.