Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel: a Decade of Garbage Gobbling Equates to 5.2 Million Pounds
Mr. Trash Wheel is a national icon and his installment in 2014, his popularity led to the installment of other trash-collecting wheels
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World's First Non-Polluting Ferry Sets Sail From Marseille, France
The vessel keeps her passengers and the sea at large healthier thanks to filters that capture 99.9% of sulphur oxide fine particulates.
Breakthrough Might Finally Destroy the Harmful 'Forever Chemicals' in Our Water
Chemists at Northwestern have figured out how to destroy PFAS ‘forever chemicals' using low temperatures and inexpensive, common substances.
Scientists Discover Simple Way to Remove Heavy Metal From Water Using Plant Waste
Scientists created a cheap membrane made from a waste by-product of vegetable oil that can filter out heavy metals to make drinking water.
Tunisians Make Generator That Produces Drinking Water From Thin Air - 25 Liters Per Day - Watch
A tech start-up has developed a product that allows safe drinking water to be refined from vapour in the air.
Revolutionary Filter Uses Moss to Capture Pollutants And Microplastics Before You Drink Them
The product can trap around 16 credit cards worth of microplastics from being consumed in a person's drinking water.
Wimbledon Sports a Huge Smiling face - And it's Made of Tennis Balls
Near No.1 Court at this year's Championships at Wimbledon, a huge smiling face is depicted with tennis balls for a special reason.
How Fog Nets Are Making Water Abundant in Arid Africa - And May Be Useful in California
Fog nets in southern morocco by the company Aquilonis are providing 18 liters of drinking water per day, for 1600 people.
Worlds Most Romantic River is Cleaned Up Ahead of the 2024 Olympics in Paris with 'Overwhelmingly Good' Water
Despite being called the most romantic river in the world, the Seine was well on its way to being ecologically dead in the mid-2010s.
Total Rejuvenation of 'Dead' River by a Rural Indian Community Hailed as National Example
A once-biologically dead river in southern India has been revived to the fullest extent thanks to local dedication and government involvement. A tributary of the Pampa and Achencoil rivers, the 4-mile-long Kuttamperoor River has for centuries been a source of life and drinking water for rural communities in Kerala. Irrigating more than 2,000 acres of […]
Researchers Develop Water Treatment that Zaps 'Forever Chemicals' for Good
Too much exposure to these chemicals can lead to a myriad of health problems from cancer to hormonal dysregulation.
In 'Mega Milestone' India Connects 80 Million Rural Households to Water Supply in Just 4 Years
The Jal Jeevan Mission hopes to connect every household in the country to public water systems by 2024, and it's flowing along nicely.
Scientists Have Created Natural Sponges That Soak Up Nano-Plastics
The sponges are light as a feather, and inside their pores, not only microplastics, but nanoplastic particles of less than one micron in size
Inspired Youth Pulls 2.6 Million Pounds of Trash from Indonesian Rivers
With his two siblings, Benchegjib started Sungai Watch, in October 2020 and have since completed over 700 cleanups.
Plant-Based Filter Removes Up to 99.9% of Microplastics from Water
The health of effects of ingesting microplastics are, predictably, not good, though the science is in its early stages.
The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest
Planting 24 acres of mangroves at a time, today the forest stretches out more than 120 acres and is the largest mangrove area of the bay.
New Solar-Powered Desalinator Keeps Producing Clean Water Without Needing Sunshine
In the global rural population, 1.6 billion people face water scarcity, many of whom are reliant on stressed reserves of groundwater.
'The Largest Environmental Restoration in History' Continues to Restart the Heart of the Everglades
As wet as it is, South Florida has experienced a catalogue of environmental problems stemming from the loss of water from Lake Okeechobee
Volunteers Plant One Million Moss Cuttings to Restore Bog and Improve Water Quality in England
Volunteers worked rain, wind, and sunshine (but mostly rain and wind) for 10 years planting sphagnum moss all around the area.
Farmer Combats Flooding by Returning Creeks to Nature: 'Wildlife That Has Come is Phenomenal'
There are numerous other benefits to restoring the natural path and character of streams and rivers, including for carbon sequestration.
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