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This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans

Cars That Think

Its sensors include hydrophones that can listen to marine life, as well as environmental sensors to measure water temperature, salinity, turbidity, and weather conditions. Canada, in 2018. Her water expeditions throughout the world include five months during 2005 and 2006, when she and her husband rowed from Portugal to Costa Rica.

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Are Disposable Hotel Slippers the Next Plastic Straws?

Baua Electric

In November, managers at the Arenas del Mar resort near Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica, challenged employees to come up with ways to operate more sustainably. In a 2018 study, Chekitan S. Refuse or reuse Will travelers start bringing their own slippers the way they carry their own water bottles and shopping bags?