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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. With the increasing growth in mass production, industries expanding to low cost production sites in Asia, fuelling on coal and the pollution from transport, the problem continues to grow.

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First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys

Grist

This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. While there have been more than 7,300 dengue cases reported in the United States between 2010 and 2020, a majority are contracted in Asia and the Caribbean, according to the U.S.

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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Demand for meat is growing faster in Asia, especially China, than anywhere else on the planet — and satiating the continent’s demand has global implications,” the Impossible Foods spokesperson told us. Ida collects data from dairy cows that can detect health issues such as mastitis or lameness at least 24 hours before they are critical.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. The potential is not chicken feed: the U.S.