UAE’s 20by2020 Initiative Brings Life-Changing Water Solution to Thousands in Cambodian...
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 26 October 2020, (AETOSWire) – Thousands of people across three Cambodian villages can now live safer, healthier lives following...
New AI-enabled tech helps to protect Africa’s banana crops
The Tumaini database is free for farmers and other stakeholders to use and has been downloaded from the Google App store 2,500 times.
Scientists working...
Insight: Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink
‘WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK’
These lines from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge could have been written...
Lockdowns led to historic drops in our CO2 emissions
In the first half of 2020 we emitted 8.8% less carbon dioxide globally that during the same period last year
The year 2020 has proved...
Less money spent this Halloween could help the environment
It requires 10,000 liters of water to produce a kilogram of chocolate.
Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the expenditure for Halloween in 2020 will...
Tips to Make Any Fish Farm More Sustainable
The aquaculture sector is growing rapidly across the world. While this is a good thing, the impacts this industry is having on the environment...
Even babies consume large amounts of microplastics
In all, infants consume as many as 1.6 million polypropylene microplastic particles on average every single day.
Microplastics have permeated the seas from top to...
Light pollution makes disease-carrying mosquitoes active even at night
“This is potentially a very valid problem that shouldn’t be overlooked,” says one scientist.
Aedes aegypti mosquitos have a vast range around much of the...
A marine protected area is long overdue to save the Antarctic’s...
Just 5% of the Southern Ocean is protected, leaving biodiversity hotspots exposed to threats from human activity.
Antarctica, the world’s last true wilderness, has been protected by...
Mastercard Priceless Planet Coalition Expands, Unites Businesses and Consumers Worldwide to...
Johannesburg, South Africa – 20 October 2020: The current pandemic has underscored how interconnected our world has become – and that the health and...
New Arctic permafrost clues lie at the bottom of the sea
Emissions released from thawing Arctic Ocean permafrost mean there is even less room for GHG emissions if we’re to meet global warming targets.
Some of...
Global warming is detectable even at the ocean floor
Everywhere they looked the scientists observed a warming trend of 0.02 to 0.04 Celsius over a decade between 2009 and 2019.
The planet has been...
