♻️ Green Tech
🌊 Large-scale energy production from tides is getting closer
Many projects are now underway where the tide is used as an energy source. The Gothenburg company Minesto is behind one of the most spectacular. They have installed an underwater kite that supplies the Faroese electricity grid with energy .In the Faroe Islands, the...
🗺 Electronic “message in a bottle” will help scientists map plastic waste
Picture: University of Exeter via Forskning & Framsteg.Every year the plastic pollution of our oceans magnifies by 8 million ton of new waste. Lack of knowledge about where the plastic pollutants come from, and how the garbage moves, has inspired a research...
🇺🇳 Young Champions of the Earth, UN’s prize for those wanting to change the world
Every year the UN holds a contest where ambitious, brilliant and brave environmentalists from the age 18 to 30 can enter. This year seven Young Champions of the Earth was selected – one from each region of the globe. How does the contest work? In short, everyone...
🇧🇷 Drones are to detect illegal deforestation
WWF and Kaninde Ethno-Environmental Defense Association, a civil society organization comprised of biologists, journalists and specialists in healthcare among others, run a drone-operation course for five separate Indigenous tribes. One of them is called Uru Eu Wau...
