Tanzania ban on plastic bags hailed by Norwegian Ambassador The Royal Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania, Hanne-Marie Kaarstad, has commended the government’s decision to ban plastic bags. The move is a solution to the heavily polluted environment which Norwegian government is dealing with in the country. Speaking with reporters during the Waste Management and Recycling from…
A team of mechanical engineering students from Karukutty, in India have engineered a device that can utilize naturally flowing water to generate electricity. HVPG (High voltage pulse generator) is capable of generating around 5 watts of power on water currents flowing as slow as 0.5m/s. Needless to say, such devices can be beneficial to bring…
India is launching a plan to eradicate Tuberculosis Last year the Indian’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a plan to erase Tuberculosis. It is the government’s National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination 2017-25 (NSP). It is supposed to be launch at a mega-summit in the middle of Match. “There are about 2,9 million new…
Retired nurse donate $100,000 to P.E.I.’s Charlottetown Hospital A Canadian couple decided to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in an unusual way this year. Bosovich and her husband, Sandy, are marking their anniversary through a $100,000 endowment fund for the purchase of medical equipment for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown. Neither of them has…
News anchor paid off $1 million in medical debt for his viewers A Washington state news anchor, Jesse Jones, who is a cancer survivor – along with the local station that he works for – is paying off over $1 million in medical debt for their viewers. The randomly selected viewers will be received yellow…
Meet 5 entrepreneurs fighting food waste In our modern world, waste food is unacceptable and some entrepreneurs are doing their part to bring about sustainable hunger, sustainable agriculture practices, and sustainable consumption and production to fruition. These five individuals have a serious impact on food waste chain from farming and agriculture to supermarkets retail, all…
Scientists have created nanorobots that would be able to shrink cancerous tumors by cutting off their blood supply without harming healthy cells. By cutting off their blood supply, the nanorobots are starving them out. In a recent study published by in Nature Biotechnology, scientists were able to cut-off the blood supply to breast cancer, ovarian,…
The National Farmers’ Union has elected Minette Batters as the first female president in the organization’s 110-year history. Batters, a Wiltshire beef, sheep and arable farmer who has also diversified her business into weddings and catering, was previously the NFU’s deputy president. She becomes the first woman to hold the top job at the organization,…
LA, give with a smile The six counters put into operation in the county look like exuberant parking meters. The goal is to solve the poverty crisis in light of the latest figures from the Los Angeles City Council. Helping the homeless Earlier this week, cities and county representatives from Los Angeles unveiled six new…
The movie “Blach Panther” is an important movie for the black community all around the world, this is one of the reasons why Frederick Joseph started the Black Panther Challenge before the coming out of the movie. It allowed him to raise money so that kids were able to go watch the movie when it…