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Africa: South Sudanese Teens Develop Ocean Cleaning Robot in Stem Challenge
This is Africa, 24 January 2020
The 2019 FIRST Global Challenge brought attention to the troubling amount of pollutants that find their way into the world's oceans. Participating teams learned about real-world… Read more »
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Africa: Blue Innovation in the Commonwealth
IPS, 23 January 2020
With 95 per cent of the ocean still unexplored by humans, we are only just beginning to understand its profound influence on life on earth, including its effect on global climate… Read more »
South Sudanese Teens Design Ocean-Cleaning Robot
At the recently held First Global Challenge in Dubai, a team of South Sudanese teenagers built a robot that can clean pollutants from water bodies. The team went up against more than 1,500 students from 191 countries.
InFocus
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Not only are 8 million tons of plastic dumped in coastal waters each year but oceans are also victims of overfishing, acidification and increasing global water temperatures linked ... Read more »
