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Researchers design a solar-powered desalination device for rural India
Many villages in rural India have to dig wells 50 to 70 meters deep to access drinking water. With India’s 1.3 billion people and counting, the wells need to go deeper and deeper. And with the aquifers getting deeper the salinity level of the water often increases. Too much salt is detrimental to Read More...
See the charts that capture the solar revolution
Many people still have a hard time believing the solar revolution. Solar energy has been advancing considerably faster than anyone expected just a few years ago thanks to aggressive market-based deployment efforts around the globe. Click here for a few charts that show the incredible trend of the Read More...
Government success: British teenage pregnancy rate halved in 20 years
In a sign that government can work, rates of teenage pregnancy in the UK have halved in the past two decades and are now at their lowest levels since record-keeping began in the late 1960s. The dramatic turnaround is the result of an unusually long-term and ambitious strategy launched by the Labour Read More...
Mercedes-Benz shows off the sleek self-driving bus of tomorrow
Mercedes-Benz has given us a glimpse of what the future of public transport may look like, with a demo of its Future Bus with CityPilot. The tech-filled vehicle combines connectivity, camera and radar systems and is described by Mercedes as "a milestone on the way to the autonomous city bus." The Read More...
Middle-age-plus memory decline may just be a matter of changing focus
Are you middle-aged or older and having problems remembering details, like where you left the keys or parked your car? Cheer up, it may simply be result of a change in what information your brain focuses on during memory formation and retrieval, rather than a decline in brain function, according to Read More...
Women are on the frontline of making peace in Colombia last
Church bells rang out, echoing across Colombia. People held signs in the streets and posted exuberant messages online: the last day of the war. That day last month, when the ceasefire was signed, could have been the last day of the war, but a piece of paper is no guarantee. Realising the Read More...
Ban diesel cars in London, thinktank urges
Diesel vehicles must be banned from London if the UK is to meet its air pollution targets, a thinktank warned on Monday. Cars, vans and buses using diesel fuel are the leading cause of air pollution in the capital, and although steps are being taken to discourage their use, through the congestion Read More...
To save the environment, scientists are turning carbon dioxide into stone
A group of scientists in Iceland are injecting carbon dioxide and water into basalt though a process called the "CarbFix Process." The scientists behind the project say this method of carbon capture could help with reducing the effects of CO2 emissions. Video courtesy of Reuters. Follow TI: On Read More...
Farming and forestry can deliver food security, says UN
Improving co-operation between nations' farming and forestry sectors will help reduce deforestation and improve food security, a UN report has suggested. Between 2000 and 2010, tropical nations saw net forest loss of seven million hectares per year and a net gain in farmland of six million Read More...
Taste for mushrooms helps Tanzanian farmers protect forest
Magdalena Gwasuma ducks carefully into a small, dark cage at the back of her house, where rows of fresh oyster mushrooms sit on wooden shelves. “I didn’t know anything about growing mushrooms at home - we used to get them from the forest,” the 60-year-old told the Thomson Reuters Read More...