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Driving change: Indigenous women grab the reins and get down to business
Leavina Reid was not in a dilemma. She knew precisely what she had to do. She couldn’t afford to have the doctor treat both of them, so she handed over her baby. Although Reid and her daughter were both ill, the GP would bulk bill for only one of them and Reid, a Weilwan woman from Read More...
Floating wave-powered buoy makes desalinating seawater cheaper and eco-friendly
Desalination plants help to solve drinking water shortages. However, they need a lot of energy and they spit concentrated brine back into marine ecosystems. That’s why two engineers have created a floating wave-powered desalination buoy that performs reverse osmosis while bobbing in the sea to Read More...
Danish energy giant plans to sell its oil assets to invest more in clean power
In a telling sign of the times, four decades after it was set up to manage Denmark’s North Sea oilfields, Dong Energy Group is considering selling its oil and gas business. The Danish company, which is the largest operator of wind farms in the U.K, says it would use the money they earn from Read More...
This giant vacuum cleaner sucks pollution out of the air
A Dutch company recently unveiled a giant vacuum that sucks pollution right out of the air. The vacuum cleans the air within a 300-meter radius and up to a seven-kilometer height, filtering out 100 percent of fine particles and 95 percent of all ultra-fine particles from ambient air. The company Read More...
Training in your sleep leads to better physical performance
What if you could use the hours you sleep at night to train yourself physically? It’s long been known that when you picture yourself performing a sport, the same neurons are fired up as if you were actually playing it. This act strengthens your motor connections between the brain and the body, Read More...
Neuroscience says that listening to this one song reduces anxiety by 65%
Sound therapies have been a popular way of relaxing and restoring one’s health for centuries, and now researchers have found what they say is the most calming song that your nervous system will ever hear. They found that this one song – Weightless – resulted in a 65 percent reduction in Read More...
Audi quits Le Mans to focus on electric car racing
BERLIN Audi will end its involvement in the prestigious Le Mans sports car race next year after almost two decades to focus on racing electric cars, symbolizing a shift in strategy as parent company Volkswagen battles to recover from an emissions scandal. Audi, which is seeking to boost the share Read More...
L.A. could remove 100,000 cars over five years . . . By adding more cars?
A new raft of plans to get 100,000 cars off the roads in the next five years contains one amazing, only-in-L.A. proposal: adding almost 10,000 cars. A new report from the nonprofit Shared-Use Mobility Center envisions, among many other sensible ideas, adding 8,400 cars to the city’s car-share Read More...
Meet the tiny towns taking on climate change
Ugh! Everything is miserable, you might be thinking, plopping down on the couch. Climate change is too big and I’m too tired to deal with it. I’m just going to sit here watch Netflix for eternity. Not so fast, lazypants. Take some inspiration from the tiny communities around the world Read More...
Prince of Wales joins global soil boosting project
The Prince of Wales is joining an Anglo-French government initiative to improve the condition of global soils. Ministers from both governments are meeting the prince to discuss how to improve soil health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farming. Typically the focus of cutting greenhouse Read More...