The Waterly

These solar panels pull in water vapor to grow crops in the desert 

Using a unique hydrogel, scientists in Saudi Arabia created a solar-driven system that successfully grows spinach by using water drawn from the air while producing electricity. The design offers a sustainable, low-cost strategy to improve food and water security for people living in dry-climate regions.

GrowUp Farms secures £100m in funding for vertical farm

GrowUp, which describes itself as a “pioneer in controlled environment farming”, previously supplied salads to wholesale, Foodservice and the likes of Wholefoods and Farmdrop via its urban farming ventures, The GrowUp Box and Unit 84.

Facebook to build large $800 million data center in Kuna 

Nothnagle said after the data center opens, Meta would launch a grant program for schools and other community organizations. She said Meta worked with Idaho Power to add new green energy to the power grid, and that the company would “add more water than we consume,” and bring additional water to the watershed.

Auction for the right to build wind farms off New York and New Jersey raises a record $4.37 billion 

The auction by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is the first offshore wind lease sale under President Joe Biden. Once the sites are fully developed, the sale of more than 488,000 acres is expected to produce up to 7 gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power nearly 2 million homes, the agency said.

World leaders agree to draw up ‘historic’ treaty on plastic waste

World leaders, environment ministers and other representatives from 173 countries have agreed to develop a legally binding treaty on plastics, in what many described a truly historic moment.

California wants to eradicate microplastics. Will a new strategy be enough? 

Microplastics can be found everywhere, from waterways to fish to inside the human body’s soft tissues. And it’s only getting worse – 11m metric tons of plastic enter the planet’s oceans each year, an amount that is expected to triple by 2040.

‘This is everybody’s problem’: inside America’s growing sewage crisis 

The time has come for a long overdue conversation about a menace with the potential for a sweeping crisis, an urgent threat to the very fabric of American society: poop.

EU proposes ban on PFAS in firefighting foams

ECHA says the proposed ban would protect human health and the environment and prevent further PFAS pollution. It could cut environmental releases of PFAS into the environment by more than 13,000 metric tons within 30 years. The plan would cost about €7 billion ($7.9 billion) over that time period.

Since leaving his university studies after seven weeks, Mike has gone on to achieve remarkable feats. He launched Australia's first internet radio station, claimed a Guinness Book of Record, and sold his Silicon Valley Startup. Mike is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Qualitance. Together with his leadership of over 200 staff, he helps clients build their company to be the industry leader - from banks in Europe to Ford Motors in Australia and Anastasia Beverly Hills.