Learning to transform matter – whether by cooking food or turning minerals into materials for making tools – has been key to the development of human societies. Everything we are and do is in some way chemistry. In the Age of Enlightenment, with the lucid

Issue 121 of Mètode looks at the role of chemistry in contributing to a more sustainable future by improving production processes and recovering and reusing materials.

The One Health concept is based on the idea that the well-being of animals, people, and ecosystems is intimately linked.

This week, the European Commission has declared nuclear energy to be "green energy", together with gas.

Pere Estupinyà narrates his journey into Patagonia, where the Rewilding foundation develops conservation projects.

[caption id="attachment_119749" align="alignleft" width="500"] Illustration: Anna Sanchis[/caption] The past shapes the future but does not inspire it. Max Planck said that new scientific truths are not imposed by convincing old experts, but by captivating new generations. Improved bad concepts do not become good, but simply more

Tourism-oriented animal abuse, geared towards the search for snapshots of «wild» animals, has increased in recent years.

Citizen science generates bidirectional communication, leading to an improvement in the scientific literacy of the people involved.

At the time of publication of this issue, we are incredulously, insecurely, and helplessly witnessing a situation only comparable to that experienced in both twentieth-century World Wars. A global pandemic, which has once again placed the human species before a scenario that is as unprecedented and unknown as it is unpredictable.

Losing sight of climate change in the media could run the risk of strengthening the consensus for a narrative in favour of economic growth that leaves environmental issues in the background.