The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Climate crisis: Fruit farmer Blohm against the federal government

Last week the first climate lawsuit in Germany was negotiated in Berlin. Although the complaint was rejected, the three farmers concerned and their lawyer speak of a partial success.

Two weeks before the trial Claus Blohm leaves his harvest. A coach parks in his yard, next to it boxes full of apples with brown spots. Young people in Greenpeace rain jackets line up around the fruit trees, which did not bear a single apple this year after last year's hot summer. Blohm wants to show the young people that climate change is not taking place somewhere in the world and not just in computer simulations - but here, More...

What's the climate impact of container shipping?

Stormy days on the red colossus

They are getting bigger and bigger and travel around the globe with fewer and fewer personnel and cheaper goods: container ships have become a symbol of globalization. A trip from America to Europe [Antwerp] - and a conversation with a former Swiss captain

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