17 Goals
From sight to science
The visual disabled audio designer Juan Pablo Culasso offers a different way to understand nature by registering bird sounds for more than 20 years.
Digital twin blue future
METU’s artificial intelligence-supported “Black Sea Digital Twin” with climate, fishing, energy and pollution, and sustainable marine management is targeted.
We produce half of the world's oxygen planktons
The planktons dancing with sunlight on the surface of the oceans play not only the sea creatures, but also the head of people to continue their life. These creatures that are not seen with eyes are unable to remove carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produce oxygen and create the first ring of the food chain. However, climate change narrows the living areas of planktons and leads to severe decline in numbers. Where to plan...
Climate change threatens ‘World Heritage’ cities
Climate change according to UNESCO threatens the Mediterranean World Heritage cities with extreme weather events such as hot air waves, flood and drought.
What is ocean accounting? Why is now on my agenda?
Problems such as global climate crisis, sea pollution and extreme hunting are forced to carry capacity of the oceans, a new approach that measures the economic, ecological and social value of the sea is widespread across the world: Ocean accounting. Traditional economic indicators, especially in gayrisafi with domestic harvest (GSYH), ignore environmental disruptions when measuring the level of prosperity of a country...
Climate attack hits tables
Climate change result affects excessive weather events such as increased temperature, flood and storm, agricultural activities, threatens food safety. From various research institutes in Europe, scientists conducted a study called ‘fire extremes, food price leaps and more broad social risks’ in July. Climate change has been addressed by the influence of food prices...
Made of electricity from rain
From Singapore National University, researchers managed to produce electricity through a tube through ordinary water droplets. The system used in the experiment was able to produce energy up to 12 LED lights. This invention indicates that the rain can turn into renewable and clean energy source one day. Science people are handed with a special water movement model called “dulum stream”...
The poplars brought to the ecosystem have grown again
In Yellowstone, the symbol of the world’s national parks, the regenerating of the corpses once destroyed, triggered a dramatic transformation in the ecosystem. Poplar trees, which do not grow for 80 years, started to join the forest cover for the first time. This development once again proves how each type in nature is connected to each other. The balance was destroyed in the 1930s, intensification, age...
1.5 trillion dollar health burden of plastic
A new global assessment revealed that plastics are not only the environment, but also seriously threatened human health. According to the report published in The Lancet magazine, plastic production increased by 200 times since 1950 and this increase has become a crisis affecting the health of people from all ages from babies to older. Report leads to serious health problems, health damage associated with plastic...
History of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice announced a history of consultation that emphasizes the legal responsibility of states in the fight against climate change.
Hidden tehlik in plastic bottles Home
Scientific research reveals that BPA and microplastics are leaked in heated plastic bottles. These substances are associated with many health problems from hormone imbalances to cancer in the long run. The means heated under the sun can turn into a serious danger of an innocent appearance. The danger from temperature Plastic water bottles, chemicals used in production...
How can a fungus change life?
If you know that a network that doesn’t seem to be seen in the world, look more carefully to your surroundings? Mushrooms are one of the most effective engineers of nature, working quietly in the depths of the soil. They are invisible heroes touching every field of life from rotten leaves to plastic wastes, from carbon release to food safety. A mushroom in today's world, not only in the forest, but in the field...