📈 Human Progress
🌊 ‘Other-worldly’ underwater sculptures save the sea
Back in the 1980’s, the Italian fisherman Paolo Fanciulli began noticing signs of illegal trawling. Fish stocks were declining and the seabed became barren. In order to save both his livelihood and all of the sea’s ecosystem Fanciulli created the...
🐆 New massive database of Amazonian wildlife
147 scientists from 122 research institutions and nature conservation organizations have captured 120 000 camera trap images of wildlife in eight different countries. This international team is collaborating with the Wildlife Conservation Society and together they are...
🐠 Researchers build coral reefs with 3D printers
A majority of the world's coral reefs may be gone in 30 years. Fortunately, intense work is ongoing on many fronts to save the reef. One method is to renovate damaged reefs, and here researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have developed an effective...
🦏 Baby boom is raising hopes for the Indian rhino
Fifty years ago, there were less than 100 Indian rhinos in the wild.But the measures that began to be taken then have yielded results and in the most recent annual count, there were over 4,000 Indian rhinos. In Assam, where 70 percent of all Indian rhinos are found,...
