🐬 Effective and low-tech solution to bycatch
Fishing nets are usually invisible to animals using echolocation but now marine biologists from Germany have come up with a solution to make nets visible to acoustic signals, helping animals to dodge the nets.
🪸 AI reveals "singing" coral reefs
A team of researchers from University of Exeter is creating an algorithm that tracks the health of coral reefs by understanding their “song”.
🕊Forests in cities create a bird boom in New Zealand
Bird song from 40 different species can be heard above the hiking trail just ten minutes outside the center of Wellington - all thanks to urban forests.
🥬 Ocean vegetables could help tackle the global food crisis
A farm in Scotland is using sea water from the Atlantic Ocean to grow its vegetables. The project is led by Glasgow based startup Seawater Solutions and they have figured out a way to replace freshwater with saltwater to grow food.
🌊 'Other-worldly' underwater sculptures save the sea
“If the sea dies, so does the fisherman. You can’t just take, you have to give too”. These underwater sculptures save the sea from being overfished.
🚰 New method pulls drinking water from the air
The University of Texas has developed a gel film that absorbs water from the air and turns it into drinking water. It can even absorb water in very arid climates.
👟 Sustainable and affordable sneakers
Shoe brand Cariuma puts sustainability, ethics, comfort and quality first. To manage this, they use raw material instead of non-recyclable ones.
🐆 New massive database of Amazonian wildlife
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society have been working on a massive project which is to build a massive database of Amazonas wildlife. Now, the group has more than 57 000 camera trap images.
🌱 Drones plant 40,000 seeds per day
An Australian start-up uses seed-firing drones to fight biodiversity loss.