French explorer and environmentalist Jean-Louis Etienne has invested nearly a decade in designing a scientific instrument, called Polar Pod, which can brave against wild water of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, gathering essential information. Jean-Louis Etienne developed a floating laboratory – a polar pod –
Phosphates found on the earth’s crust are an essential element for aquatic plants and animals to thrive. However, most of them flow into the waterways due to man-made activities. This has resulted in algae blooms that have covered some lakes and rivers, depriving marine organisms
With the surge in popularity of takeout meals, design studio Forest and Whale created Reuse – biodegradable sustainable containers from the wheat husk, which can be composted in facilities or even gulped down. Forest and Whale was co-founded by Gustavo Maggio and Wendy Chua as
The Floating Wind Turbine project is one of the most anticipated energy technologies, that GE research featured at the annual ARPA-E Innovation Summit – virtually held from Monday, May 24-27. GE researchers announced the details of their current two-year, $4 MM project through the ARPA-E’s
An Amsterdam-based German artist, Diana Scherer has created a patterned root material that can be used to capture carbon. After the long-term experiment on grounded plant parts with plant biologists at Radboud University in Nijmegen to understand the core systems, she has perfected the process
Hanging over a thick canopy of trees, you might find a sloth hanging around and inching slowly in the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Swinging over a 100-foot long steel cable, this creature is very lethargic. But the intention of it is more than just hanging around
A french ocean adventurer and a team of engineers have designed the Manta yacht, which works by using plastic waste as fuel. The leader of this project, Yvan Bourgnon has years of experience in racing sailing boats. To his dismay, he noticed a steady rise
Every year, billions of tons of plastic waste are dumped into landfills and in oceans that have immensely polluted the ecosystem. Now SLO Architecture has found an innovative way to make use of plastic waste. It has built a Turntable dome in New Jersey by
Solar energy has become a necessary renewable energy resource as the world aims to reduce the usage of fossil fuels. Solar Mountain by Mumbai architecture firm NUDES is a permanent installation, which has been designed to potentially power the 3,800-acre ranch of Burning Man with
Progressing toward the mission to clean water, a team of Chinese researchers developed a highly efficient, solar-powered desalination device that can produce freshwater from seawater. To date, freshwater scarcity is one of the serious issues that is threatening the development of society in many regions.