The European Union will submit its ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change to the United Nations on Wednesday. Thereby the act is expected to ...
Products based on organic marine waste
A research group at the University of Basque Country develops new products based on squid, fish and algae waste. By using renewable materials, these ...
Mapping urban underground infrastructure
The costs for street projects could soon be drastically reduced: the goal of a project of UI labs in Chicago is to map all of a city’s underground ...
Eigth-graders turn food containers into water filters
The Scientific American Innovator Award goes to three Ohio eight-graders who turned Styrofoam food containers into new water filters. The winners were ...
Wear your trash
A film crew follows Rob Greenfield during his project for which he promised to wear all the waste he produces in a month. The waste is collected in a ...
Teenager fights drought with orange peel
Kiara Nirghin, a 16-year old South African teenager, created a natural polymer out of the peel of citrus fruits. It is biodegradable and cheap compared to ...
Scotland on 100% renewable electricity by 2020
Due to low global oil prices and the declining oil resources in the North Sea, the Scottish government set up an ambitious plan to increase renewable ...
Smog-eating tower aims to solve China’s pollution problem
According to the World Health Organisation, China has one of the most polluted air in the world. To curb the toxic pollution, Dutch designer Daan ...
Turbine invented to collect a typhoon’s energy
The Japanese engineer Atsushi Shimizu developed a turbine that can harness the energy of a typhoon or other storms. According to the inventor the energy of ...
Maritime big data development in China
At the 2016 China Qingdao International Ocean Summit Forum last week, experts in the maritime field expressed interest to develop a strategy for the use of ...
