A Canadian startup produces cheap, clean, and green hydrogen in an abandoned oil well. The innovation could disrupt the energy industry and accelerate efforts to reverse global warming.

In the past century, disease patterns in the world have changed dramatically. Our ancestors dealt mostly with infectious diseases—illnesses cause by germs. Better hygiene, vaccinations, and antibiotics have pushed back infectious diseases.

Our health depends on drinking water. But new research shows that not all water is the same. The search for healthy water and a major solution to better health begins in Austria and leads to the state of Washington.

Anthropologist Gina Bria discovered a major solution to dehydration while researching desert dwellers. Bria found that indigenous tribes in Mexico have used chia seeds to gain energy and strength for thousands of years. It is not a coincidence that ‘chia’ means ‘strength’ in the Mayan language!

Aspirin has been one of the most popular pharmaceutical drugs of the past one hundred years. It is a synthetic derivative of the natural substance salicylic acid. It was first isolated from the bark of willow trees (Salix) from which it got its name.

The biggest challenge battery innovators face is to design a reliable mass production process. Perfection is a tricky thing in the battery industry. Many mass-produced goods tolerate a reasonable flaw level. Batteries are very vulnerable: they either work or they do not.

The clean energy revolution hinges on dirty and dangerous batteries. That is the paradox which innovation and industry must overcome as automobile makers are racing to completely shift their production to electric cars.

Europe needs clean and green hydrogen fast. Hydrogen Europe is the leading organization representing companies and stakeholders that are committed to accelerating the European hydrogen industry.

The Ukraine invasion has added a new geopolitical dimension to the challenge of global warming. Europe needs to discontinue the import of gas from Russia as soon as possible.

In a new factory at the outskirts of Venlo, The Netherlands, close to the border with Germany, an elevator dumps a large bag of hay into a giant mixer. The dried grass is absorbed in a slowly turning brown slurry containing urban waste—mostly recycled paper and packaging.

Paolo Lugari has a plan for humanity. And he’s convinced it’s the only plan that will ensure human survival on Planet Earth: We need to plant trees. Many trees!

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us a couple of things: We cannot take what we hear or read at face value, and it is up to all of us to join the dots for ourselves.

We already know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid, is twice as virulent as seasonal flu, from the same SARS family, which puts its mortality rate at around 0.4 percent. For more than 90 percent who get the virus, it will cause mild symptoms. According to health agencies, 30 percent will not even know they have it, and will be entirely symptom-free, or asymptomatic.

The introduction of a universal basic income protects nature, reduces pollution, helps to reverse global warming and leads to more balance and justice in society. From the fifteenth century—at the end of the Middle Ages, when time stood still to a large extent—Europe began an acceleration of economic, social and technological development which led to the industrial revolution and eventually culminated in the world we live in today. That rapid progress didn’t come out of nowhere. Europeans used paper and the technique of printing with moveable type.