Food production needs to increase by 70 per cent to feed the nine billion population projected for 2050. Fortunately, the industry is benefiting from some radical thinking. Here are the cutting edge technologies taking farming towards this goal. Read more…
Water has ranked in the top five risks for seven consecutive years in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report. And if you look at the headline threats to humanity and the planet over the next decade, as pinpointed by…
Adapting to climate change is a huge challenge for major cities, especially those in coastal areas. A low-lying location, urbanization and extreme weather events linked to climate change make Bangkok particularly vulnerable to flooding. Read more in weforum Bangkok is…
Fifty years ago, this would be dismissed as alarmist, but now scientists have become really worried Johan Rockström, executive director, Stockholm Resilience Centre. Read more in The Guardian Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state by…
Multinational telecommunication company Ericsson has led a myriad of water-related projects across the world ranging from the US to Kenya. Ericsson is once again leading in the water space by crafting an entire smart water network around the Internet of…
The plan is to run the autonomous bus as a shuttle service between existing bus stops for ordinary bus lines and office buildings in the Forus area outside Stavanger. Read more in zdnet Scandinavia gets its first autonomous public buses…
This vision of a ‘smart’ global grid which adapts to demand and delivers electricity to where it is needed could become a reality by 2030, according to Adrian Timbus, manager of smart grids and wind power at engineering giant ABB.…
Decades of felling and natural disasters have drastically reduced Pakistan’s forests. Figures for the country’s total forest cover range between around 2% and 5% of land area. Nevertheless, Pakistan has one of the lowest levels of forest cover in the…
Hawaii is already a leader on climate. In 2015, the state passed a law to move to 100% renewable electricity by 2045 . In 2017, days after Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate agreement,…
We need to scale up existing low-carbon technologies at a much faster rate – otherwise population growth will continue to outpace investment in renewables, and fossil fuels will continue to dominate.The appetite to explore hydrogen as an energy vector is…
