The Queen has launched a major crackdown on plastics across the royal estate being inspired by one of the world’s most famous naturalists and nature documentarians Sir David Attenborough. Buckingham Palace has said the royal household has a “strong desire to tackle the issue” and would do so by cutting back plastics, such as straws…
Some 50,000 homes in South Australia will receive solar panels and Tesla batteries, the state government announced Sunday, in a landmark plan to turn houses into a giant, interconnected power plant. Each home in the project will be equipped with a 5kW solar panel system and a 13.5kWh Tesla Powerwall 2, at no cost to…
The Royal Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania, Hanne-Marie Kaarstad, has commended the government’s decision to ban plastic bags. The move is a solution to the heavily polluted environment which Norwegian government is dealing with in the country. Speaking with reporters during the Waste Management and Recycling from Trash to Cash event in Dar es Salaam over…
While analyzing hundreds of soil samples, researchers from Rockefeller University discovered a new family of antibiotics. These compounds could help tremendously in the fight against antibiotic resistance. Researchers from Rockefeller University have discovered, while doing analysis on more than 1,000 soil samples from across the United compounds called malacidins. It is a newly discovered family…
A team of mechanical engineering students from Karukutty, in India have engineered a device that can utilize naturally flowing water to generate electricity. HVPG (High voltage pulse generator) is capable of generating around 5 watts of power on water currents flowing as slow as 0.5m/s. Needless to say, such devices can be beneficial to bring…
Last year the Indian’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a plan to erase Tuberculosis. It is the government’s National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination 2017-25 (NSP). It is supposed to be launch at a mega-summit in the middle of Match. “There are about 2,9 million new TB cases every year and about 420 000…
A Canadian couple decided to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in an unusual way this year. Bosovich and her husband, Sandy, are marking their anniversary through a $100,000 endowment fund for the purchase of medical equipment for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown. Neither of them has ever been a patient in this hospital but…
A Washington state news anchor, Jesse Jones, who is a cancer survivor – along with the local station that he works for – is paying off over $1 million in medical debt for their viewers. The randomly selected viewers will be received yellow envelopes from KIRO during the of the February 12-2018 – and none of them…
In our modern world, waste food is unacceptable and some entrepreneurs are doing their part to bring about sustainable hunger, sustainable agriculture practices, and sustainable consumption and production to fruition. These five individuals have a serious impact on food waste chain from farming and agriculture to supermarkets retail, all the way down to the individual…
Scientists have created nanorobots that would be able to shrink cancerous tumors by cutting off their blood supply without harming healthy cells. By cutting off their blood supply, the nanorobots are starving them out. In a recent study published by in Nature Biotechnology, scientists were able to cut-off the blood supply to breast cancer, ovarian,…