Environment
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Technology SwedenUnderwater Robots Keep Ships Clean to Cut Carbon Emissions
As the shipping industry is looking into ways to reduce carbon emissions, a new kind of underwater robot may be the solution, reducing the pollution of cargo ships by keeping them clean so they can use less energy to move around.
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Environment ZimbabweIndigenous People Go Old School: Homes on Stilts Better Than Brick Houses
Increasingly warm temperatures and heavy floods around Binga, Zimbabwe, led the indigenous Tonga people to look to their past to protect their families: they’re now building ngazi – traditional elevated wooden huts – next to their modern brick homes.
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Environment UAEEach Person in Abu Dhabi Uses 1,184 Plastics Bags a Year – by 2021 It Will Be 0
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, is planning to ban disposable plastic bags by 2021, according to officials, to improve its environmental policies and progressively rid of all single-use plastics in a first-of-its-kind move for the nation.
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Environment MalawiForest Protected by Bees (Yes, Bees!), as They Chase Loggers Away
Communities in Malawi are acquiring beehives to scare away loggers and rejuvenate trees in their local forests, after realizing that communities where beekeeping is practiced is significantly less prone to deforestation.
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Technology BrazilIndigenous Tribe Uses Drones to Catch Land Grabbers in the Rainforest
The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, an indigenous tribe in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, have begun operating drones in January a drive to spot illegal loggers and land grabbers – and they immediately found a deforested site that they otherwise wouldn’t have noticed.
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Environment USAWant to Turn Into a Tree After You Die? Check These Burial Options…
Traditional burial and cremation methods are environmentally toxic, meaning we may continue to hurt the planet with our carbon footprint after death. But new zero-waste alternatives are becoming available to help our bodies sustainably become a part of nature.
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Environment PeruGlaciers Are Almost Gone in Peru, Now 2 Sisters Save Drought-Hit Community With Rain Water
Peru’s glaciers have shrunk significantly in the past four decades, causing water to become a scarce resource for over 200,000 people in the Ayacucho region. So two Quechua sisters decided to act – building reservoirs to harvest rainwater for their community.