by Warp Institute | Jan 22, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
Posidonia oceanica is the name of a species of seagrass that can act as a trap for plastic floating around in the Mediterranean . It shows a study from the University of Barcelona. The researchers behind the study estimate that up to 867 million plastic objects can...
by Warp Institute | Jan 20, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech, ❤️ Health Tech
Gitanjali Rao was moderately interested when she received a “science kit” as a gift on her fourth birthday, with test tubes, goggles and other goodies in a small box. It was only when she became acquainted with the contents and just started working on...
by Warp Institute | Jan 11, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
Ant Forest launched in 2016 and since then over half a billion people have used the app. It basically converts activities with a low-carbon impact, like for example walking/cycling to work, into real trees. How does the app work? Every time a user makes a low-carbon...
by Warp Institute | Jan 11, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
Between 6 to 17 percent of all carbon emissions each year are caused by deforestation. World Resources Institute writes that tropical rainforest deforestation is responsible for more CO2 emissions than the entire EU combined. Luckily there is a way to combat the...
by Warp Institute | Jan 10, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
In rural China, drinking a glass of water isn’t a certainty. About 50% of the country’s shallow groundwater is polluted due to agricultural runoff and chemical waste from factories. But thanks to Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren it is now easier to know if the water is...
