Plastic straws consumption is about 500 million units per day, in the United States. Most of them end up in oceans or landfills. After a single use, they will remain there for hundreds of years.
As a response to this...
Evaporative cooling was used as early as the Old Kingdom of Egypt, around 2500 B.C. As you can imagine, a clay pot cooler does not use electricity. It uses a porous clay pot (filled with wet sand) containing another...
Life Guardian is a cyborg that integrates a 3D printed mechanical part and a living part: a mushroom. The biological part determines and modifies the robot behavior, so it is considered as its brain.
It was created by two Argentinean...
The need to transition to clean energy production free from fossil fuels, is becoming more and more pressing as climate change is impacting our chances of survival on the planet.
At the same time research efforts are also invested in...
Have you ever notice how it's often cooler near a lake on a hot summer day? Especially if there's a slight breeze? It's not just the breeze, you are feeling the air cooler because of the water evaporating. When...
The solar air heating collector is a quick and simple way to get started on alternative energy. Although is a quite simple array, it can make you save a lot of money on energy bills. Just basic thermodynamics, not...
Researchers discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide back into coal.
Carbon capture as a mean for mitigation of climate change, is quite a hot topic. Discussions have covered all aspects of the technique- theory, practice, viability, implementation, impact. It...
Singapore is a small country in South-East Asia--practically a city state, where the urban centre dominates most of the island. Land is a scarce resource and agriculture is limited, contributing less than 1% of the country’s GDP. Understandably, the...
The world's largest raised coral atoll, in Solomon islands, is faced with an ecological disaster since February 4th, when the ship MV Solomon Trader got wedged on a reef due to a cyclone on its way to collect a...
Not so long ago, China processed 40 per cent of United States recyclables. However, in 2018 China decided to stop importing a lot of this garbage. This decision left U.S. cities with big mountains of recyclables to process. So...
