♻️ Green Tech
Green Tech is an important part of the solution of climate change and other enviromental problems. Here you will find articles covering recycling, water purifying and tech used to conserve and protect natural resources. Also, news about Warp Green Tech Program will be found here.
🛣 New roadside barrier protects people from air pollution
A curved roadside barrier can help protect pedestrians from air pollution, add some roadside greenery and reduce traffic noise.
💵 It is more profitable to protect wilderness than to exploit it
Exploiting wilderness can cost more than protecting it, even if we only see it financially, a new study shows.
🌍 Global Forest Watch can now see through clouds
World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch can now see through clouds and thereby track deforestation shortly after it occurs.
🌱 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.
🐝 More bees cause fewer forest fires in the rainforest
By giving the local population knowledge and equipment to become beekeepers, it is possible to get rid of swidden farming and reduce the number of forest fires.
👕 Used cotton clothing can be turned into nylon or ethanol
By adding sulfuric acid correctly, it is possible to make new clothes or fuel from old cotton textiles that cannot be reused.
🐢 Mayonnaise rescues turtles that have ended up in oil spills
Mayonnaise dissolves tar that is stuck in the throat of sea turtles and nourishes them until they can eat their normal food again.