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A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
See moreTwo Achuars, a gringo, a German, two Kichwas, and three quiteños got on a boat and revolutionised transport in the...
See moreSome sixty volunteers from the urban Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (uBMS) have been tracking lepidoptera in 27 parks and gardens around...
See more“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
See moreIf the endangered European pond turtle still survives in Catalonia it is thanks to the Emys Foundation (Fundació Emys), which...
See moreImagine the scene: you’re in the Russian Arctic and, suddenly you spot a tall, blonde woman descending from the sky...
See moreThe Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) not only ensures that European eel populations stay healthy and able to fulfil their role...
See moreThe ResCap project releases gorgonias and soft coral accidentally fished by traditional anglers back to their natural habitat. The...
See moreEcocean are dedicated to protecting - no prizes for guessing - ecologies of the ocean. Experts in the art of...
See morePrimary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
See moreThe Billion Oyster Project wants to restore New York Harbour’s once famous and flourishing oyster reefs, bringing biodiversity back to...
See moreIs it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
See moreJustdiggit unites with the collective power of the smallholder farmers and local communities in Africa, teaching powerful restorative agricultural techniques...
See moreThe algae-based bio-company Algaeing not only produces dyes, their patented technology allows for the creation of coloured fibers, changing the...
See moreFaber Futures is revolutionising colour with bacteria, using 500 times less water than traditional dyeing. Assemblage 002 is a reversible...
See moreThe combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
See moreTwo Mexicans have created an eco-friendly leather made from cactus to help save the environment. They want to reduce animal...
See moreMarmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
See moreThe first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
See moreRain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
See moreWater is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
See moreIn an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
See moreIn the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
See moreNo irrigation? No problem. These clever tree-planting cocoons can bring soil back to life and restore dry, dusty land back...
See moreThis smart irrigation system helps farmers reduce their water footprint, control soil conditions and grow better crops with data and...
See moreA museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
See moreThis is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
See moreAn innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
See moreThese low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
See moreA forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
See moreTunisian water resources are especially scarce. Thanks to a farmer’s daughter, water recycling can be a valid solution for water preservation. ...
See moreIs there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
See moreInstead of casting their eyes to the starry night sky, this Observatory is looking at one of earth’s most precious...
See moreA startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
See moreA franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
See moreCome rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
See moreA counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
See moreThis water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
See moreA group of activists led by a 'Water Warrior' are on a mission to improve the lives of Detroiters by...
See moreIn the state of Lousiana, the coastline abutting the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing at an alarming rate, due in...
See moreFounded in 2015, French biotechnology start-up PILI Bio seeks to disrupt the unsustainable production of dyes in the textile industry...
See moreEvery second, a garbage truck full of textiles goes to landfill – despite fabric having a significant water, carbon and chemical...
See moreThe consumption of non-renewable resources for single use items and the amount of waste generated is profoundly unsustainable. That’s why London-based tech startup NotPla wants...
See more“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
See moreImagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look...
See moreThe simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
See moreArticles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
See more"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
See moreThis is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
See moreCould 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
See moreAs climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
See morePlastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
See moreYou can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
See moreWelcome to the world’s first ever cemetery made using single use plastic bottles. Having opened its gates on World Wildlife...
See moreThought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
See more“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
See moreMarine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
See moreIn 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
See moreIn the extreme north of India, the harsh mountain area of the Trans-Himalaya is experiencing acute water shortages; the desert's...
See moreVienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
See moreAround 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
See moreThe Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
See moreThe world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See moreChicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
See moreToday mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See moreThis March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
See moreWhen the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
See moreBuilt on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
See moreMore commonly known for being eaten with rice after going through the traditional Japanese methods of blanching, cooling, salting, there...
See moreWith more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
See morePeople have been ingesting iron since 1200 BC (the Iron Age, in fact). In parts of Africa, people eat red...
See moreMore than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
See moreAn estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
See moreAn unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
See more"The wars of the next century will be fought over water – unless we change our approach to managing this...
See moreOne billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
See moreAccess to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
See moreThis free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
See moreIn India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
See moreWhat greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
See moreCommercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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