Quarter-Million Pounds of Plastic Cleared From Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Dutch Milestone
Since that deployment in August 2021, System 02 (or "Jenny") has now collected 220,000 pounds (101,353 kg) of plastic over 45 extractions.
Since that deployment in August 2021, System 02 (or "Jenny") has now collected 220,000 pounds (101,353 kg) of plastic over 45 extractions.
Cooking, cleaning, and gardening may be linked to reducing your risk for developing Alzheimer's by 21%, according to new research.
A 25-year-old woman was stunned to spot a face and the name 'Anna' appearing on the back of an imperial moth.
When Philo Farnsworth was 14 he had an epiphany while plowing the fields-a vision that led to a television tube and broadcasting itself.
Meet Belle, a Kansas dog diagnosed her a birth defect that makes her look permanently surprised and wide-eyed.
A pilot program will extend the benefits of solar power to Delaware residents who can't afford installing the green energy.
PV panels at the end of their lifespan will be worth more than $2.7 billion in 2030, compared to just $170 million this year.
Under special lighting conditions, a plain-looking bronze mirror from the 16th century reflects an image of a Buddha.
Officials first planted flowers along the roadside during the pandemic to help improve biodiversity, but soon they found another use.
A study of 5,000 adults found 28% say this is the first summer they've made attempts to reduce their energy use.
5% of human emissions are generated through kerosene use in aviation, which currently has no alternative for long haul jetting.
Keith, a retired probation officer took the first picture together with his friend Martin, a paramedic, in a Woolworths in Lincoln.
The bison came from wildlife parks in Ireland and Scotland where they lived very unnatural lives, but will now roam almost undisturbed.
Forget strutting the runway with big hair and cheesy smiles. The Miss Landmine Angola competition leaves behind the superficiality and aims for promoting pride and beauty, despite imperfections.
The restoration of peace in 2002 has turned oil-rich Angola into one of the world's fastest growing economies and opened a new frontier for surfers, mostly from Luanda, who flock to the warm blue waters of Cabo Ledo to ride waves. Officials expect the country's warm climate, vast sandy beaches along with the recently restored peace to begin attracting visitors from abroad.
Thousands of kilometres of roads have been rebuilt after a civil war that ended in 2002, enabling farmers from banana plantations in the south to coffee producers in the north to bring their products to market on time and at affordable prices.
Cheetahs have returned to their former habitat, a national park in Angola, after a three-decade civil war devastated the area, according to a conservation group based in Namibia.
A brightly painted old shipping container with solar panels on its roof and high-specification filtration devices will soon be providing nearly 20,000 liters a day of clean, drinkable water to the area's 500 residents who currently rely on the dirty nearby river. If the pilot is successful, manufacturing will begin locally to roll out across the region.
The number of girls enrolling in primary school has soared across Africa in the last decade, according to a report released on Monday. With primary education now free in all but five African countries, there has been a boom in the number of children attending school, with Ethiopia and Angola showing the most dramatic improvements -- a 42 percent and 43 percent increase respectively from 2000 to 2011.
Alaska Airlines is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to help restore coral reefs in Hawaii. Touting the paper-reducing benefits of its mobile app, the airline will donate $1 for every customer who downloads the mobile app during the month of August. Passengers can rid themselves of the need to print paper boarding passes at the same time as they help rid the Hawaiian reefs of invasive species.