🌱 Seaweed as carbon offsets?
A new startup plans to grow kelp, a seaweed, in micro-farms on the seafloor - and sell the offsets. This new method is even more efficient than tree-planting.
🌱 The kelp elevator boosts growth four-fold
Scientists develop an underwater elevator that boosts kelp growth four-fold by raising and lowering it to different depths.
♻️ A new type of plastic is recycled with near-perfect efficiency
Researchers have discovered a method where hard plastic polymer can be broken down and recycled with almost perfect efficiency.
👂AI listening device helps rangers deal with illegal logging
The conservationists and rangers of the Sumatran rainforest, home to a very unique ecosystem, have got a nifty helper - AI listening devices.
🦅 Smart camera system saves endangered birds from wind turbines deaths
A camera system saves endangered birds by stopping the wind turbines before the birds hit them - leading to an 82% drop in fatalities.
🔭 The Hubble Telescope could help save the world's largest fish
The Hubble Space Telescope has a special software for mapping and parsing out the stars. Now, this technology might help scientists save the worlds largest fish.
🌱 Simple super fast growing plant can help with both food scarcity and climate change
Scientists are trying to understand how and why the plant Duckweed grows so fast. Getting clues from the plant’s genes could help with both food scarcity and climate change.
🦈 AI and drones tracks and protects great white sharks
It isn’t easy spotting great white sharks from the water so a team of researchers have taken to the skies - literally.
🦾 CHARM - the coral farming robot
CHARM is a robot that helps with the restoration of coral reefs. The robot is easily controlled with an app on your phone or computer.