Environment
🌳 Ethiopia planted 350 million trees - in 12 hours
But Ethiopia is not satisfied yet. The country has raised the bar and aims to have planted 20 billion trees by 2022.
🌳 Crushed rock might reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere
This startup is putting its faith in spreading crushed basalt rock on the ground in forests and on farmlands in order to reduce the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
🛒 Browser extension helps you make green choices
This new browser extension uses machine learning to help you choose Amazon products based on their sustainability.
🌿🏙 Green facades can make cities cooler
Facades filled with plants can cool down the cities as well as improve mental health amongst citizens.
🐝 Airport support local bees
Airports and beekeepers collaborate to save pollinators. Last year the bee-keeping program won the 2020 Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence.
🐝Walmart push policy to protect pollinators
Walmart requires suppliers to stop using pesticides and to start to facilitate pollinating insects on their lands.
🛢 Drastic reduction in oil spills
Amoco Cadiz, Exxon Valdez, and Deepwater Horizon. Many people remember the great oil disasters, but fewer know that both the number and amount of oil spills have decreased sharply in the world.
🌍 NASA: The Earth is greener now than it was 20 years ago
The Earth has become five percent greener in 20 years. In total, the increase in leaf area over the past two decades corresponds to an area as large as the Amazon rainforests.
🐬 Scientists find coral sanctuary
A newly discovered coral sanctuary with abundant marine life is not affected by the warming oceans.