Environment
🌊 Presumed plastic fibers in oceans turned out to be of natural origin
Microfibers polluting our oceans are thought to be plastic. Surprising findings show that more than half of them are actually natural fibers, such as wool and cotton. Past ocean surveys have counted all microfibers as plastic because of the belief that natural fibers...
🐹 Effective nature conservation has saved 28 animal species from extinction
Many endangered species can be saved from extinction and we already have the tools to do so. This is the opinion of an international research team and as an example they take up 28 species that would have been lost now if the right efforts had not been made in time.An...
Made of Air
It’s no secret that the world’s population is growing rapidly and by 2050 there will be approximately an additional 2 billion people in need of housing. To do this there will be a big demand on construction supplies. But fear not, the Berlin-based start-up...
🌊🗑️Self-powered underwater robot must pick up plastic on the seabed
To fish out the plastic, they will use self-driving vehicles. A drone in the air, a boat on the surface and two underwater vehicles. The drone, together with one of the underwater vehicles, will locate the debris. The other underwater vehicle then goes there and picks...
