Environment
🐾 The Corona crisis can help the wildlife
While humans stay indoors during the Coronavirus advance, the animals take over cities. Researchers are investigating how anthroponosis affects wildlife and how insights can change work on future conservation.
🐳 "Plastic fisherman" records record catches of plastic debris from the sea
GPS transmitters on fishing nets make it much easier to find plastic debris in the sea.
🧼 Soap bubbles pollinate plants and give us more fruit
Small soap bubbles can pollinate plants, which can ensure fertilization and food production in these times when pollinating insects are not as numerous as before.
🐲 Now the hunt for the endangered pangolin will be stopped
Pangolin can no longer be used in traditional Chinese medicine, which could save hundreds of thousands of animals every year.
🏗️ Steel production emits four times more than aviation - now comes fossil-free production
Swedish companies SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall are together building a plant with the goal of being the first in the world with fossil-free steel as early as 2026. Sweden could reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 10%.
🚮 Litterati: The global team cleaning the Earth
Litterati is building an ecosystem to create a litter free world. When millions of people come together for a common goal, the impossible becomes reality, and lasting change happens.
🌳 Africa is building a mighty green wall over the entire continent
In Africa, a Great Green Wall is being established right across the continent to prevent the spread of the Sahara desert.
⚡ PRTI Creates a Power Platform from Waste Tires
#ICYMI, A little known, but big impact company, Product Recovery Technology International, or PRTI, is revolutionizing how the value from waste tires is realized.
🌲 The EU wants to plant three billion trees and halve the use of pesticides by 2030
The EU Biodiversity Strategy will save both biodiversity and the economy.