Fabien Cousteau is raising $135 million to build the International Space...
Concept design for the Proteus undersea habitat. Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famous undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is building on his family legacy by constructing a state-of-the art...
View ArticleBig-money investors gear up for a trillion-dollar bet on farmland
Ray Williams bought this land just north of the small town of Dumont, in Butler County, Iowa. For a glimpse of what could happen to a trillion dollars worth of American farmland, meet Ray Williams....
View ArticleRenault arms entire french town with free electric cars
Renault wants people to know that it’s easy to go electric. The automaker giant Renault has gifted an entire village in France its Renault Zoe electric vehicle in a recent power move. The move comes as...
View ArticleThe Great Green Wall of Africa : Is the the next wonder of the world?
“The Great Green Wall promises to be a real game-changer.” Africa’s Sahara Desert is growing. In 2018 it was found that the Sahara, the biggest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic,...
View ArticleIn a world-first, Australian University builds its own solar farm to offset...
LIMITING GLOBAL WARMING to well below 2℃ this century requires carbon emissions to reach net-zero by around 2050. Australian households have done much to support the transition via rooftop solar...
View ArticleThe world’s growing concrete coasts
The world’s coastlines are turning to concrete, at a huge cost to wildlife and the climate. But new technologies may offer a way to shore up coasts while benefiting biodiversity. It’s one of the most...
View ArticleTesla rival Nikola scores deal to make thousands of 1,000-horsepower electric...
If Nikola (NKLA) founder Trevor Milton has his way, the garbage trucks emitting black smoke that troll the streets will eventually be a thing of the past. Milton and his team at Nikola took a giant...
View ArticleEGEB: Germany builds the world’s first hydrogen train filling station
Hydrogen trains in Germany Germany breaks ground on the world’s first hydrogen filling station for passenger trains. The town of Bremervörde in Lower Saxony, Germany, has broken ground on the world’s...
View ArticleNew autonomous sustainable robots could mine the deep sea
Pliant Energy Systems says its C-Ray robot could be used as a less invasive ocean mining tool. Mining companies are ready to tackle two new frontiers like never before: space and the deep sea. The deep...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Loon balloons are helping scientists study gravity waves
The research could lead to better models for predicting the weather. In between beaming internet to people in developing countries and sometimes passing for UFOs, Alphabet’s Loon balloons have been...
View ArticleWorld wildlife plummets more than two-thirds in 50 years: index
Graphic outlining the environmental degredation of the oceans caused by human activity. Global animal, bird and fish populations have plummeted more than two-thirds in less than 50 years due to...
View ArticleResearchers reveal a much richer picture of the past with new DNA recovery...
A shot of the Klondike region in the Yukon, where the permafrost samples containing sediment DNA, were collected. Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA...
View ArticleNYC’s newest proposed building would be the city’s tallest – and will act as...
The 2,400-foot-tall building would change New York’s skyline forever. Paris-based studio Rescubika just released a proposal for a new building in New York City that would both make a mark...
View ArticleLA and the World Economic Forum present blueprint for global UAM adoption
Clean, safe and inclusive urban air mobility closer to becoming a reality with new partnership The City of Los Angeles and the World Economic Forum have released a pioneering report that presents a...
View ArticleNew super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster
Breakthrough that builds on plastic-eating bugs first discovered by Japan in 2016 promises to enable full recycling A super-enzyme that degrades plastic bottles six times faster than before has been...
View ArticleSatellites are mapping out every tree on earth using artificial intelligence
Scientists have mapped 1.8 billion individual tree canopies across millions of kilometres of the Sahel and Sahara regions of West Africa. It is the first time ever that trees have been mapped in detail...
View ArticleSociologist : When fracking becomes a mental health disaster
“What’s stressful is the unknowns and how this industry is operating behind a curtain all the time.” Fracking’s devastating impact on our health and the planet, not to mention its contributions to...
View ArticleGetting a country from moderate/high EV purchase rate to 100% EV market share...
Norway just hit 82% plugin vehicle new car sales in September 2020. This raises the question: “Why are 18% of the purchases non-plugin vehicles?” That got me dreaming up ideas for how to get a country...
View ArticleThese researchers have found a way to turn a common plastic into high-value...
More than 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic has been produced in the last six decades. However, recycling plastic can be difficult as the most common process involves melting and reworking the...
View ArticleSelf-watering soil could transform farming
Researchers planted radishes in this miniature greenhouse using their self-watering soil and compared it to sandy soil found in dry regions of the world. A new type of soil created by engineers at...
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