ByChristy RomerOctober 13, 2020 Ocean Cleanup Prodigy Boyan Slat Turns Attention to Polluted Rivers In 2012, when he was just 18, Dutch inventor Boyan Slat had a brainwave: Why not use autonomous…
ByChristy RomerOctober 10, 2019 Boyan Slat’s Ambitious Ocean Cleanup Project Finally Tastes Success It’s been a long journey for young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat and his ambitious Ocean Cleanup project. In…
ByChristy RomerOctober 3, 2019 Spanish Designers Create Ocean Buoy to Capture Microplastics The ocean is full of plastic. There’s so much of it — choking turtles, confusing seahorses, poisoning whales…
ByChristy RomerSeptember 2, 2019 Pornhub Teams Up With Environmental Organisation to Tackle Ocean Plastic If you want people to pay attention to your product, it’s a good idea to reach them when…
ByKezia ParkinsJuly 19, 2019 Melati & Isabel Wijsen: The Sisters who Got Plastic Bags Banned in Bali In the last decade, we have seen a huge rise in youth activism, or at least our exposure…
ByKezia ParkinsJuly 15, 2019 Wave2O: Turning Ocean Waves into Clean Drinking Water Seawater desalination is an excellent solution to the world’s lack of safe drinking water, but the problem is,…
ByChristy RomerJuly 5, 2019 BabyLegs: The Citizen Science Tool for Communities to Track Plastic Pollution There are some challenges in the world too big to be solved by one person or organisation alone.…
ByChristy RomerJune 24, 2019 Local Heroes: The Man From Kerala Single-Handedly Cleaning the Oceans of Plastic If it sometimes feels as if the scale of the climate crisis is so large that it’s impossible…
ByChristy RomerJune 21, 2019 Could Mathias P. Clausen’s Jellyfish Crisps Bring Balance Back to the Seas? Jellyfish may well be awe-inspiring, ethereal beings that have survived for an unprecedented 500 million years, but they’re…
ByChristy RomerJune 7, 2019 Norway’s Richest Man Sets Up Major Ocean Research Project They say it takes a village to raise a child. In that case, it’ll take a world to…