🏜 MIT team designs desert shelter for humans and animals
A team of MIT alumni have recently designed a sustainable structure for humans as well as animals.
🦅 Nepal opens sanctuary for birds
Nepal has officially established the country’s first bird sanctuary, creating a home for dozen species.
🤿 Scuba divers recover 25 000 pounds of trash from Lake Tahoe
The non-profit Clean Up the Lake in California recently organized a team of volunteer scuba divers to remove trash from Lake Tahoe’s 72-mile shoreline. The team removed 25 00 pounds of debris.
🎪 Wildlife sanctuaries save animals from circuses
Wildlife sanctuaries welcome four lions and four Bengal tigers, rescued from circuses. Some of the animals had spent four years in a metal train carriage.
🌳 Forests on Indigenous land capture twice the carbon
A new study from World Resources and Climate Focus found that forests on Indigenous land capture double the amount of carbon as the ones owned by private parties or the state.
🏆 New prize offers career guidance for young environmentalists
This new environmental prize aims to help young naturalists to compete on a global scale and at the same time protect and restore nature.
🐋 Kiwi bird and humpback whale no longer endangered animals
Finally the Australian humpback whale has recovered enough to be taken off the endangered species list. Last Friday, the North Island brown kiwi was also classified as “no longer threatened”.
🌱 Seaweed - the next generation biofuel?
In Sweden, a seafarm wants to show how seaweed can become a future food necessity and a possible resource for plastics and biofuel by growing it in abundance all year round.
🚤 Automated and eco-friendly water taxi
A new automated and eco-friendly water taxi launches in the Netherlands. It’s called the Roboat and it’s now navigating the canals running through Amsterdam.