Much of Earth got hotter in 2021, worldwide weather weirder, wildfires more devastating, the atmosphere more problematic, and soil less fertile. In the arider expanses, animal and plant futures became more precarious; forests further diminished; the oceans warmer, higher and more acidic. Here’s a roundup of some of the findings and phenomena regarding the state of the planet …
Picture Credit: Jeremiah Thoronka Jeremiah Thoronka, a 21-year-old Sierra Leonean student, who invented a device that uses kinetic energy from traffic and pedestrians to generate clean power, has won the 2021 Chegg.org Global Student Prize. The prize is worth $100,000. This year also saw US teacher Keishia Thorpe named as the winner of the 2021 …
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Musa Mapheto’s projects stem from the love of her community. One of those projects has seen her delve into the biodiesel space. It is because of this that she has also been featured in a six-part series featured on Red Bull TV called Walk a Mile in My Shoes. The show focuses on social entrepreneurs …
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The clinical trial will test 210 patients from more than 10 centers over the course of ten days Sun Pharmaceutical has been granted permission to trial a plant-based drug to test whether it can treat patients with coronavirus (Covid-19.) The drug, named AQCH, has shown ‘broad antiviral effect’ in several in vitro studies and has already completed …
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