Week 39 Summary

Ndakasi leaves us, we turn wheat into paper, and use tree roots to purify water.

Vegetable fibres that are converted into tissue paper: wheat straw pulp

We have more and more opportunities not to waste numerous raw materials that are generated in our environment. This is the case of vegetable fibres obtained from plants.


Ndakasi, the "gorilla of the selfie", dies in the Congolese park of Virunga

Ndakasi, a gorilla who became famous in 2019 by posing in a selfie with another primate and a ranger, has died at the age of 14 from disease in Virunga National Park, Africa's oldest national park.


The rise of environmental misinformation

Awareness of the importance of some of the environmental issues that shape our future depends on the way in which terms such as the climate crisis are conveyed and disseminated.

Natural purifier that uses tree roots to clean water

A natural purifier that uses tree roots to clean the water, mimicking a natural filtering process used in cities since Roman times.