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... but gentrifying area now known as East Williamsburg. From Hi-Tech, the garbage would get loaded onto long-haul trucks and carted to landfills and recycling centers hundreds of miles away. From there, Caban headed toward the Williamsburg Bridge. He would spend the second half of the night in Manhattan ...
... tomatoes and strawberries as well. The plants grow directly out of vertical columns. Similar to Dutch researchers, the company also uses l-e-d lighting, water recycling, and climate control. No genetically modified seeds or pesticides are used in production. Instead, it’s the environment that’s modified, carefully crafted ...
Plastic materials are impossible to avoid. From water bottles and shampoo containers, snack wrappers and Tupperware, to polyester clothes and electronics, we use and eventually throw out most plastics. Landfills and the natural environment are the final destinations for more than three quarters of non-degradable plastic trash, according to ...
... into solar light bulbs. IVETTE FELICIANO: Boyson also studied American cities. He met resident Abess Makki in Detroit, where the city’s debt crisis caused water shutoffs in 2014. Makki created City Water, a phone app that allows residents to monitor their water usage in real time...or report leaks ...
... SAM LAZARO: Across campus, fruits and vegetables are grown in unlikely containers, with unlikely tools. JOSE ZAGLUL: All the bottles, you can fill them with water, with -- and then it's like drip irrigation. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: The campus tries to model the ideal carbon-neutral world it wants ...
... is all about, phase changes. You might remember this from high school. Phase changes occur -- it's the difference between steam becoming -- condensing down to water, and then ultimately freezing into a solid. Those are phase changes we understand. When it gets to the quantum level, the way things shift ...
The sea route from Libya to Italy is dangerous, even deadly, for African migrants and refugees who are desperate to cross. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from a Doctors Without Borders rescue ship that’s attempting to save people victimized in Libya from then dying at sea.
If the prototype is successful, a full-scale 100-kilometer-long barrier will be strung out in the Pacific Ocean to collect some 68 million kilograms of floating plastic and trash.
Astronomers find a supermassive black hole that stifles star formation by causing galactic warming.
As Puerto Rico’s government grapples with an economic crisis, a Zika outbreak, and widespread landfill closures, another disaster is brewing -- trash on the island. Whenever it rains, several feet of black, contaminated water and trash flood the homes of people living near the Martín Peña Channel. NewsHour’s Ivette Feliciano reports.
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