Meet Lucas Tadao: 14-year-old Brazilian student who turned cassava peels into biodegradable trays that could help replace Styrofoam and reduce plastic pollution

Meet Lucas Tadao: 14-year-old Brazilian student who turned cassava peels into biodegradable trays that could help replace Styrofoam and reduce plastic pollution |

As concerns over plastic pollution continue to grow, a 14-year-old student in Brazil has developed a sustainable alternative using materials that would otherwise be discarded. Lucas Tadao Sugahara Wernick, a student from Curitiba in the southern state of Paraná, created biodegradable food trays made from cassava peels and araucaria tree residues. Designed as a substitute…

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More than 100,000 ancient shipwrecks may be hiding beneath the Baltic Sea; researchers are beginning to map the underwater graveyard

More than 100,000 ancient shipwrecks may be hiding beneath the Baltic Sea; researchers are beginning to map the underwater graveyard | World News

The destructions created by the 1872 Baltic sea flood in the area between Præstø and Faxe as depicted by Holger Drachmann as reporter for Illustreret Tidende. Image Credit: Holger Drachmann/Wikipedia More than a thousand ancient shipwrecks could still be lying beneath the Baltic Sea off the coast of Latvia, according to estimates cited by Latvian…

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Man quits $200K Microsoft job in Switzerland to create content: Career mistakes he admits to and the lessons they teach

Microsoft: Man quits $200K Microsoft job in Switzerland to create content: Career mistakes he admits to and the lessons they teach

The decision to leave a well-paid corporate job in order to pursue entrepreneurial dreams seems to be an inspirational choice, but Christian Harms explains why it was a difficult experience for him. The former Microsoft worker who gave up his $200,000 salary to create content in Australia presented his “Museum of Failures” via Instagram. Unlike…

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Australia’s feral camels were abandoned when trucks replaced them. More than a century later, their isolation is attracting Gulf breeders

Australia’s feral camels were abandoned when trucks replaced them. More than a century later, their isolation is attracting Gulf breeders

Australia’s camel population is difficult to count, partly because the animals are scattered across an immense stretch of desert and semi-desert country. Estimates have placed the feral herd anywhere from about 300,000 to one million, depending on the year and the method used to survey it. Their presence is a legacy of a very different…

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'Trump's signature is worthless': Mojtaba Khamenei calls US 'Great Satan', warns of 'unforgettable lessons' if strikes continue

‘Trump’s signature is worthless’: Mojtaba Khamenei calls US ‘Great Satan’, warns of ‘unforgettable lessons’ if strikes continue

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday accused the United States of repeatedly violating a 14-point memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Tehran and Washington, saying the developments had proved that US President Donald Trump’s signature was “utterly worthless and devoid of credibility”.In a written message addressed to the Iranian nation, Khamenei alleged that repeated…

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