It is a Portuguese company that produces them. ISI Soles developed the process and already sells ecological shoe soles made from recycled tennis balls. Experienced tennis players use 3 tennis balls per game or practice session. After this period, the balls reach the end of their life cycle. 300 million tennis balls are manufactured each […]

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Deep underground lie stores of once-inaccessible natural gas. There’s a technology, called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that can extract this natural gas, potentially powering us for decades to come. So how does fracking work and why is it a source of such heated controversy? Mia Nacamulli explains the ins and outs of fracking.

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Every year, the world uses 35 billion barrels of oil. This massive scale of fossil fuel dependence pollutes the earth, and it won’t last forever. On the other hand, we have abundant sun, water and wind, which are all renewable energy sources. So why don’t we exchange our fossil fuel dependence for an existence based […]

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There is a Growing Need for Water Management and Solutions to Drought. See what Israel is doing to remedy these environmental and global concerns. Watch this documentary, hosted and directed by Yuval David, produced by JNF USA, the Jewish National Fund USA. Follow Yuval as he travels around Israel with JNF USA and as he […]

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Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis. Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural climate solutions currently receive only […]

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Blueberries have been growing in North America for thousands of years – they’re a native crop! But until recently, if you wanted to eat them, you had to find them in the wild. We uncover the amazing story of how the blueberry was tamed.

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What’s the difference between peaches and nectarines? Or is this a trick question? We took our drones, GoPros and other cameras to a peach farm to learn everything we could about one of summer’s tastiest fruits. Be sure to stick around for the harvest — one of our coolest yet!

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You’ve NEVER seen a harvest like this! Watch how pecans — America’s native nut — get from a Georgia orchard to your table in time for Thanksgiving.

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Ever wondered why red peppers are more expensive than green peppers? We went straight to the farm to find out this and more — like whether yellow, orange and red peppers are all just shades of one ripening pepper.

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Get to know mushrooms — the mysterious food that suffers from a case of mistaken identity.

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