By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director We are excited to announce that we have been selected as a winner of the World Economic Forum Generation Restoration Youth Challenge! Here’s to restoring nature!
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By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer Last week, we arranged a community mangrove planting day in one of our project areas, in the village of Fiaxor in Ghana’s Keta lagoon area. We collected our seedlings from our partner, the Anloga division of the Forestry Commission, and transported them to Fiaxor the night before
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By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer For the last two weeks most of our team were together, in Ghana, during which time we started some exciting new phases of our project. Again, we had the pleasure of receiving a visit, and support, from Regenerative Resources CEO, Neal Spackman. It’s been 2 months since
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By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Project Coordinator (Africa) In Ghana we have some pretty ambitious plans to plant millions of mangroves across coastlines in the coastal regions over the next few years and it all starts with a few seeds. When it comes to environmental degradation, there is a significant negative-feedback loop which must be
By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer The coastal ecosystem in Ghana is at risk of flooding and coastal erosion, other threats are overexploitation of natural resources, as well as marine pollution and illegal sand mining. Furthermore, rapid urbanisation and human settlements are stressing the coastal ecosystem and accelerating land degradation. The coastline of
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By Nicholas Shell, Seawater Solutions Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer Soil-less indoor farming is an up-and-coming trend in the agriculture sector, with special implications for urban farming. Nhut, who manages our Ho Chi Minh City site, has put together our first indoor hydroponic system for our Salicornia and is testing for use in wastewater treatment
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By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Project Coordinator (Africa) Recently you may have noticed some different information coming out the Seawater Solutions media channels from what we normally have. That’s because this year we were lucky enough to participate in a class run by the University of Strathclyde Engineering department which brings students and industry partners
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By Nicholas Shell, Seawater Solutions Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer When helping farmers adapt to increasingly saline conditions, we are not only introducing novel halophyte crops, but also salt tolerant varieties of conventional crops. This gives farmers flexibility when growing in saline lands in different conditions and between various seasons. Growing a sensitive crop like
By Hilary Blackman, MSc Environmental Engineering student at University of Strathclyde Hello, Hilary here! As part of a collaboration with industry between the University of Strathclyde and Seawater Solutions, I had the opportunity to study the management and creation of wetlands as places for carbon sequestration and accreditation. The project matched well with my previous
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By Núria Pérez Viura, Seawater Solutions Chief Marketing Officer Gaia Journal just released its first issue, The Water Issue, and Seawater Solutions is in it! “Gaia Journal is an independent quarterly magazine on science-based innovations that are healing our planet.” “Gaia Journal explores the world through interviews, photography and stories on new scientific discoveries and
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