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Philippine students need to plant 10 trees to graduate
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Posted on April 6, 2021
To regain its forest cover and see forests grow again, the Philippines introduced an interesting law that requires each student to plant 10 trees before graduation. Deforestation constitutes one of the great global problems, constituting a serious threat to existing biodiversity, a decrease in the absorption capacity of CO2, and the loss of habitat for millions of animal and plant species…
Read MoreTransforming a mountain of garbage into a green lung, among other everyday ecology practices
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Posted on March 17, 2021
Bullas is a wine-producing municipality of 12,000 inhabitants in Murcia (Spain). Hills, vineyards and low houses. The scene could belong to any other peninsular municipality, but on a walk through its streets, unexpected elements emerge. A reused glass roundabout and an old oil tank converted into a bus stop. On the outskirts, there are immaculate community gardens…
Read MoreAn autonomous drone that pollinates with a bubble gun
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Posted on March 8, 2021
Scientists from the Advanced Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, AIST (Japan), present a drone that can pollinate an orchard in much the same way as the bees do. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature's most nutritious foods, but bee species have declined significantly in recent decades. To compensate for declining pollinator populations, scientists have been trying to create robotic pollination technologies, and this initiative ap…
Read MoreProven that training in cold weather makes you prevent wrinkles and lose weight
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Posted on January 14, 2021
According to a study conducted by the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, training time in a cold environment reduces the possibility of getting the flu by 20 or 30%…
Read MoreScientists turn plastic into a clean source of hydrogen
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Posted on December 14, 2020
Today, the 4.9 billion tons of plastic currently on earth end up in landfills or in the wild, and this number is increasing year after year, making ballast one of the most serious environmental problems of our time. A new light appears at the end of the tunnel: chemists at the University of Oxford in the UK have found a way to turn plastic bottles, bags and other packaging into a clean source of hydrogen that has the ability to be reused as a clean fuel…
Read MoreArtificial intelligence helping the farms: Google's farmer robot
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Posted on November 9, 2020
Can you imagine a plantation where each plant was monitored? And where each one received exactly the nutrients it needs by measuring each of its reactions? From the bowels of the still quite unknown Google Laboratory X — that branch of the company always surrounded by a halo of secrecy — comes the robotagricultor! Actually, this project, called Mineral, is much more than that: it is putting artificial intelligence at the service of agriculture…
Read MoreThe first public bus without driver in Spain
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Posted on October 27, 2020
The new buses are called EZ10 and are 100% electric. They are presented by the company Alsa, a Spanish subsidiary of the UK company National Express. After a period of trial, they are already available from 7.45 AM to 4 PM at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), circulating at 20 kilometres per hour and for the moment with a driving assistant, expecting to be improved over time. This first model may be used in the future for hospitals, last-mile mobility or tourist use in historic cit…
Read MoreNew inventions to preserve the oceans
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Posted on October 14, 2020
Seven-tenths of the world is covered by oceans. They put food on our plates, provide up to 50% of the oxygen we breathe and regulate the climate. Fortunately, there are people working in new technologies that can help keep our oceans healthy…
Read MoreBiodegradable hemp fiber masks
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Posted on October 5, 2020
Currently, it is estimated that 129 billion disposable masks are used and thrown away every month in the world, representing serious public health and environmental problem…
Read MoreA young Indian invents ecological bricks
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Posted on September 24, 2020
Binish Desai started working on an eco-friendly brick made from recycling and waste when he was 11 years old. He said to himself that one day he would build the least expensive house in the world for these people, build it with bricks made of chewing gum and waste paper! How? Keep reading… His big inspiration was a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated television series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers…
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