Environment
🌾 Rock dust – a fantastic solution to several environmental issues
By spreading dust from basalt rock over crop fields, carbon dioxide is drained from the air and the crops will become more nutritious. According to a group of scientists, we not only need to cut our carbon emissions, we also need to remove already existing CO2 from...
🐾 The Corona crisis can help the wildlife
Now during the Corona crisis, one third of the world’s population is at home and nature and its inhabitants are given a much needed break. Researchers are investigating how the so-called anthropopause, the break in human activity during the quarantine, affects...
🐳 “Plastic fisherman” records record catches of plastic debris from the sea
A ship from the American Oceans Voyages Institute has picked up 103 tonnes of plastic debris and old Pacific fishing nets.This is more than twice as much plastic as the organization received during its last expedition and a new record for how much plastic a ship...
🧼 Soap bubbles pollinate plants and give us more fruit
Insects that pollinate plants have become fewer in many places in the world. The headlines on how bees are getting fewer and fewer, and the effect it has on plants’ ability to reproduce and by extension, our food production, have been many. There are several...
