Brown algae have developed a special set of pigments that allow them to absorb more light for photosynthesis than green algae and green plants can. In total, brown algae account for around 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe.A study conducted at Colorado State...
Birds colliding with airplanes, an incident known as bird strikes, is a big problem within the industry. Not only can the bird strikes cause harm to the airplanes, flight delays and maybe even cancellation, the incident kills thousands of birds each year. Bird strikes...
In London, an old courthouse will be home to the largest rooftop forest in all of Europe. It will contain 125 trees and more than 10 000 plants in total. The project is called Roots in The Sky and the public will have access to this garden. Also, Londoners with a...
Lithos Carbon, an agriculture-tech company is using dust from the basalt rock (a volcanic rock) as fertilizer but also as a way of removing carbon from the global cycle. How? By spreading it on farmers' fields. The startup sells this method as carbon credits to...
Solar Cycle, an American startup, is transforming broken solar panels from landfill waste into valuable raw material which can be turned into new solar panels once again. Materials like copper, aluminum, silver and silicone are recovered from the old solar panels and...
The car industry is slowly moving away from the classic internal combustion engine towards electric vehicles, and a ban on the sale of new vehicles with an internal combustion engine is being discussed in several places within just over a decade. One of the biggest...