After revealing the five finalists earlier in the year, the XPrize foundation has today announced the grand prize winner, which outshone almost 100 competitors with its superior ability to harvest fresh water from thin air.
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After monitoring seismic activity over a few years, researchers noticed that the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is “singing” – and listening out for changes in that song could be an early warning system for potential problems.
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It has been a long journey for the Ocean Cleanup Project, but after years of development and a 1,300-plus-mile trip through the open water, its first system is now installed at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the single biggest accumulation of ocean plastics in the world.
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So-called "ghost" fishing nets are awful things. Lost or forgotten during commercial fishing operations, they can drift in the ocean for years, indiscriminately catching marine life as they do. A newly-invented tag, however, may help keep that from happening.
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SodaStream is looking to play an active role in tackling the mounting problem of plastics in the ocean, starting with a pilot project testing a new device to collect marine waste from waters off the coast of Roatán, Honduras.
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Climeworks is a Swiss company at the vanguard of carbon capture technology, and having just completed a year-long pilot project collecting C02 at the world’s first negative emissions power plant, is rather optimistic about the way things are headed.
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As we start to really get a grasp on the magnitude of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, elsewhere in the ocean plastic waste is mounting on the shores of some of the most remote islands, with a new study revealing the true extent of the mess and the threat it poses to local species.
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Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde has a knack for raising environmental awareness through spectacular and symbolic pieces of art, and his freshly launched Space Waste Lab might be his most impressive installation yet.
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A newly published special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that humanity must make rapid and unprecedented changes to all facets of society if it is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, and so mitigate the potentially devastating effects of global warming.
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Low-tech Magazine has rebuilt its website to be entirely solar powered, and is wilfully designed to go offline when conditions dictate. The new site has a much-reduced energy footprint, and is something of an exemplar in efficient website design.
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