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  • Open data to stop deforestation

    In 2013, Matthew Hansen, of the University of Maryland, and his team produced, from satellite imagery, the first high-resolution global maps showing where parts of the globe are growing or growing. disappearing trees. These images were used to detect large-scale patterns, such as that Indonesia had almost caught up with Brazil in the destruction of…

  • How pollutes the sea in each laundry

    More than 700,000 microscopic plastic fibers are released in each cycle of washing machines, with many of them overtaking sewage plants and reaching rivers and oceans, according to a study by the University of Plymouth. The research team studied what happens when different synthetic materials are washed in domestic washing machines, with different combinations of…

  • Video: Horizontal Lisbon

    How to popularize bicycle mobility in a city with steep slopes? Based on a topographical examination, the architecture and urban intervention studio BSLX devised a network of cycle paths for Lisbon, the capital characterized as the “city of 7 hills”.

  • The most innovative universities

    The Reuters agency has prepared and presented the ranking of 100 Most Innovative Universities in the World, a list that aims to reflect which are the academic institutions that do the most for the advancement of science, the development of new technologies and the stimulation of the economy. Based on empirical data from patent filings…

  • Paris: The citizen reconquest of a disused railway belt

    The Petite Ceinture (or “little belt”) is a former railway line from 32 kilometers long that embraces the intramural Paris. After decades of neglect, the city has proposed recover 23 kilometers to the public with the participation of the citizens of each neighborhood, through workshops to decide the uses in the different sections and being…

  • Sweden encourages repairs

    The Swedish government plans to introduce tax cuts that encourage repairing all kinds of items, in the face of the throwaway culture that we are facing We have become accustomed every time something breaks. The proposal presented to parliament includes a reduction in VAT, from 25% to 12%, for the repair of bicycles, clothing and…

  • Brexit: A ban on European research centers

    Lobbying the European Commission to stay with the European research agencies and centers currently based in the UK has already started. Following the Brexit decision, an appetizing opportunity has opened up, and although Article 50 of the EU Treaty has not yet been activated and the situation is unclear, states and cities are trying to…

  • How Blockchain technology can transform the electricity sector

    Technology Blockchain is an ingeniously simple protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure. It eliminates the need for a central authority to act as an intermediary to support each transaction, and with this can replace less efficient administrative systems. The blockchain serves to support Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but beyond that it…

  • Video: A question of angle

    French-Tunisian artist eL Seed stunned the world with a mural painted on 50 buildings in Cairo’s Manshiyat Nasser neighborhood, a neighborhood associated with The trash. The purpose was not to beautify the neighborhood, but to change the perception of a community by looking at it from another angle.

  • An interactive map to calculate renewable energy production

    For those who are interested in installing solar panels on a roof, or even a wind turbine, estimating in advance the amount of energy that will be generated can be a problem. The interactive web tool Renewables.ninja, developed by researchers at Imperial College London and from ETH Zürich, aims to make it easier to predict…