The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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As our cities continue to grow, we need to get better at using our transport more efficiently. Yet to encourage...
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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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Becoming carbon neutral is not just for the big organisations, but it can be a challenge to find the resources...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Communities around the world have been experiencing the effects of changes in their environment for decades. LICCI is putting them...
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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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Enter a safe magical space where you can explore your feelings. Hear the stories of people who’ve been where you...
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The Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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The 2021 IPCC report is 3,949 pages. Too busy to read it? This card game makes climate education fun. ...
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What if you could join a global governance body built on fairness and empathy and informed by scientists and Indigenous...
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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Is it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
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The Drones for Whale Research programme is on a mission to democratise whale science through cheap and non-invasive technology. ...
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If not us, then who? When it comes to keeping trees standing, that’s the question the inhabitants of the world’s...
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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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“Fashion is both a powerful art form and a way of communicating that is faster and arguably more powerful than...
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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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A startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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Backflipping for freedom in Gaza, the Camps Breakerz Crew aren’t letting rubble-strewn pavements stop them dancing in the street. Meet the...
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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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We may not give much thought to the insoles that line our shoes – but we use them every day....
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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Trail cameras are an important tool in wildlife research and conservation – and you get some surprising results. What's...
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Butterflies don’t just look beautiful, they have an unusual trait. They are nature's way of showing us the effects of...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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"It’s important to bring open-ended tools for discovery to a broad spectrum of users without dumbing down the tools." –...
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When you think about climate change, you’re likely to experience a range of emotions. Some of us naturally feel inspired...
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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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Frustrated that black girls are almost never the main character in children's literature, and tired of only reading about "white boys and...
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Poor nutrition causes nearly half of death in children under five and 3.1 million people die each year. The 3 Million...
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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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Submitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge and...
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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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By now you’ve probably had some exposure to the driverless technology phenomenon – even if it’s that taxi in Total...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are part of daily life for kids in Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen. An estimated 4,000...
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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Honestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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The food industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Already struggling to feed its population, in India...
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