Environment
🌊 Huge success for Ocean Cleanup Project
There are many projects dedicated to saving our oceans and cleaning them from plastic. One of them is The Ocean Cleanup project which works with everything from ocean trash capture systems to innovative river barges. During the last few years, the focus has been on...
🧬 RNA could replace pesticides
Potato leaf mold is a scourge for potato growers. The mold attacks the potato tops and can completely destroy the tops if the mold is not controlled. Chemical pesticides are generally used to get rid of potato leaf mold, but the agents are expensive and have a...
💬 Why we need a new kind of environmental movement
Mankind has a long tradition of predicting doomsday. But fortunately, despite predictions of nuclear war, epidemics, and asteroid strikes, no one has been right so far.Now, in 2021, when, despite the pandemic, we have a historically long life expectancy, low child...
🪑 Danish designer seizes potential in seagrass
Seagrass has many amazing qualities, like providing nurseries and habitats for a variety of marine animals, improving water quality, capturing CO2, and removing plastic waste from our oceans.Now seagrass is being incorporated into furniture design in an attempt to...
