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GREEN NEWS · 13. aprile 2021
Japan has announced that the contaminated water stored in the Fukushima nuclear power plant will be discharged into the sea in the Pacific Ocean in the coming years. Since the tsunami of ten years ago, which caused the partial melting of the kernels of three of the plant's six reactors, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the energy company that manages the plant, has accumulated more than one million tons of water in more than a thousand large cisterns: it was used to cool the reactors, which is...
GREEN NEWS · 24. febbraio 2021
A South African artist creates his paintings only with used plastic. Here you come ... Modern artists have invented various and original techniques to express their creativity and art, sometimes in a truly unique way. South African Mbongeni Buthelezi was no exception and chose to use plastic waste as colors for his paintings. The man, in fact, collects the used plastic, melts it and uses it in his canvases. According to the artist, using garbage is nothing more than a metaphor for life: it...
GREEN NEWS · 17. febbraio 2021
the shower that chases you away after 4 minutes An artist invented a shower that kicks you out after 4 minutes to save water The resources of our planet are not unlimited, yet we live every day as if everything we have has no end, exploiting the environment without caring that this can lead to other, much more negative things in the future. More and more artists, entrepreneurs or ordinary citizens decide to commit themselves to protecting the environment, one of these is definitely Elisabeth...
GREEN NEWS · 17. febbraio 2021
Air pollution is an increasingly serious problem for our planet. Some cities have become truly unlivable and overpopulated, resulting in an impact on the air we breathe. Using public transport, rather than your own car, could help drastically reduce pollution, especially if buses and trains run with zero impact! But how is this possible? Some British researchers have found a solution that could revolutionize everything. In fact, human feces could be the new fuel frontier! The Bio-Bus is the...
GREEN NEWS · 17. febbraio 2021
The flower that becomes transparent if it rains There is a flower, which grows in Asia, which transforms and becomes transparent every time it rains Sometimes nature gives us phenomena that they know are even more incredible than the science fiction we are used to seeing in movies. One of these is the one concerning a very unusual flower. Its name is Diphylleia Grayi and it has an incredible feature: its petals become transparent in contact with water, giving a unique spectacle. This wonderful...
GREEN NEWS · 17. febbraio 2021
A Ukrainian modified his old Opel to run on wood instead of petrol One of the main consequences of the tension between Russia and Ukraine is that of the reduction in gas and oil supplies which could cause a surge in the price of fuel in Ukraine in the coming months. Many people have therefore decided to take shelter looking for the strangest ways to save energy. One of them is Eugene Chernigov who has modified his car to travel with wood. Man, speaking of mathematics and physics, has exploited...
GREEN NEWS · 11. febbraio 2021
The oldest tree in the world is 9500 years old The oldest tree in the world is found in Sweden. Its roots are 9,500 years old! Looking at his photos you wouldn't think but Old Tjikko (this is his name) is the oldest tree in the world. It is found in Sweden and is a spruce. The incredible discovery of his age took place only in 2004 by a group of botanists. Its roots have been dated using the Carbon 14 method. The result? Its age is 9500 years! In reality, the trunk is only 600 years old, only...
GREEN NEWS · 11. febbraio 2021
A Chinese artist created a brick with the powders of the Beijing atmosphere. This Chinese artist goes by the name of Brother Nut and has tried to raise awareness of the nation's air pollution problem with him with a truly incredible work. In fact, he managed to create a brick by filtering the dirty air of Beijing, without using particularly technological means. A simple vacuum cleaner was enough to collect 100 grams of dust from the air. This amount of dust is present in the air people breathe...
GREEN NEWS · 29. gennaio 2021
Here is the incredible story of a man who managed to stop the desert with an ancient technique. There are heroes who act silently, without getting too much publicity or without posting spectacular selfies on social media. One of these was certainly Yacouba Sawadogo, a brilliant and innovative African farmer who in the last 30 years has revived ancient reforestation techniques in the Sahel desert area. The man has managed to achieve extraordinary results using only a shovel and the firm belief...
GREEN NEWS · 17. gennaio 2021
A new type of modified wood could have an important place in the architecture of the future. What's special about it? It is transparent and not only transmits light but absorbs and releases heat and is also biodegradable. A group of researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden have been working on the technology for three years. Led by Lars Berglund they managed to create a particular type of transparent material by removing the lignin from the cell walls of balsa...