An Australian school collected more than 2,000 plastic bottles and turned them into a greenhouse to grow crops all year round
Single-use plastic bottles usually have a very short lifespan. Once the beverage they contain has been consumed, they quickly become ...
Elephants don’t act on impulse: they think before they act
Joshua Plotnik is a psychologist at Hunter College in New York who has been studying the intelligence of elephants, in ...
Marine biologists celebrate a historic advance: in Europe a robot already removes garbage from the ocean with AI
The seabed has been, for decades, one of the great blind spots of global pollution. A deep, dark and difficult ...
Before air conditioning, in Spain there was a trick to keep the house cool: it still works
Long before air conditioning became a common household appliance, Spanish homes already had their own strategies to combat the heat. ...
Emergence at high altitude: alpine plants suffer from the temperatures and ruthless competition of the plains
One of the many consequences of the increase in global temperatures is that even plants have begun to migrate: some ...
It’s official: the neighbor who causes bad odors or pollution can lose his home for up to 3 years in Spain
Conflict over noise, smoke or bad odors between neighbors is not only a problem of coexistence: it also has legal ...
Thousands of sheep replace lawnmowers in solar plants: Spain is already testing this solution
The expansion of large photovoltaic plants has raised a problem that may seem secondary, but is essential for their operation: ...
Fossil feathers found in dinosaur poop could explain how birds survived mass extinction
65 million years ago, the fall of a meteorite on the Yucatán Peninsula dealt the decisive blow to the Earth’s ...
Scientists agree: the impact of microplastics affects animals, plants and people
Microplastics have become one of the most widespread pollutants on the planet and are already present in almost all known ...