Did you know that the planet’s topsoil is the world’s largest living entity? A handful of rich soil is...
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Projects
Architects in Beirut are using Miyawaki reforestation to return a polluted river to people and nature and “turn EGO into...
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To help preserve local heritage and provide formal and financial education, a rural community in Uganda is building its own...
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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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Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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“When you contract your pelvic floor, the bird goes up. When you relax it, the bird goes down.” At...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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“It’s possible at a neighbourhood or city scale for us to completely overturn how change happens” Imandeep Kaur, CIVIC SQUARE....
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A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
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Some sixty volunteers from the urban Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (uBMS) have been tracking lepidoptera in 27 parks and gardens around...
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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 ResCap project releases gorgonias and soft coral accidentally fished by traditional anglers back to their natural habitat. The...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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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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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Australian not for profit SoilCQuest helps farmers draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil—where it will stay...
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Solar Foods is one of those mind-blowing future-food incubator stories that can save any dinner conversation - and perhaps even...
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GreenWaves’ vertical, regenerative underwater farming reduces ocean acidity, absorbs carbon, provides nutritious food and just might create a ton of...
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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 the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
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No irrigation? No problem. These clever tree-planting cocoons can bring soil back to life and restore dry, dusty land back...
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Come rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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Fashion just got nerdy – and all the better for it. Post Carbon Lab are opening up the possibilities that...
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Most farmers in advanced economies take advantage of a wealth of agricultural information services to support farm management and increase...
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The simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
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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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Juan Gimenez is a technician at Diputació de Barcelona (DiBa). Every day, he has to analyse websites to search for...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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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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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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There’s a growing unease about the use of behavioural advertising: technologies that track and learn about our online behaviour in...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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Glitter gets everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. A weekend at a festival can lead to weeks of picking the sparkly...
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This isn't clickbait: an electrical engineer based in South Africa has designed an automated locker system that allows people with chronic conditions to...
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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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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Trialled in numerous countries since the second world war and supported by many, there has never been a study which...
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Data in the digital age data has transformed the way we live our lives, from artificial intelligence and drones, to...
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Nigeria’s healthcare system is notoriously expensive, and an unexpected emergency can bankrupt a family. Partnering up with Hygeia, EFInA (an...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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