There exists not a single skiing slope in Nepal, nor any local snow sports culture. At the customs I was asked if my ski bag contained golf cubs. In short, although the country hosts the highest mountains of the...
By Ansgar Fellendorf In the first week of December I participated for Pangaea Project and my university, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, at the 4th Arab- European Young Leaders Forum (AEYLF) in Doha. The event, organized by the Austrian...
We write the year 1500. The Portuguese navigators reaching the new continent found the tree in abundance at the coast and its hinterland. It presented itself with a hard red wood adorned with thorns, and pinnate leaves, consisting of...
Is it even possible to rightfully claim to help the environment with the Pangaea Project agroforestry project in Brazil, if I travel from Europe across half of the world for this? To be honest, I don’t know, but I want to give...
Please vote (“Stimme Abgeben”) for financial backing from Google for our project https://goo.gl/CInx4q This summer 2016 we will plant pioneer trees on the Almadafarm near Illhéus in Brazil in order to help and accelerate reforestation in a volatile region. The coastal...
We, a group of about twenty students, embarked on the sailing boats “Willem Jacob” and “Confiance” in the port of Lauwersoog – a small Dutch fishing town behind the dikes of the famous Wadden Sea. Both boats were more than...
We charge our phones with it, it fuels the light bulbs and runs complex computer systems – shortly, electricity has become an indispensible part of our lives! We take it for granted, and we wonder about it solely when...
What is the capital of Moldova? Most people probably would remain without an answer. It is Chisinau, or Kishinev, depends on your language. This already shows one of the dividing lines of Moldova. The majority of the former Soviet-republic,...
“Why does the EU need agriculture subsidies?” “Is the rise of the Chinese economy a threat to security?” “What are good projects fighting the plastic island in the Pacific?” In the first days of November the German “Bundeszentrale für...
Vienna – “Journalists have power!” and every article needs a good start. Two things I learnt during my internship at the Austrian newspaper “DerStandard”. Journalism is a desired job. It is an important job, but also a tough and...