Farm is the new lab
Project Earth
•
4m 42s
The outside looks like a cargo container. The inside looks like a spaceship.
Either way, it’s not an ideal farming spot. But it’s where scientists are growing 40 million vegetables on cloth.
They’re using technology known as vertical farming.
It requires less energy and significantly less land while improving food yields and eliminating agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
CGTN’s Gabriel Yue Yin brings us this story of what future agriculture MAY look like, and whether this could be a climate solution.
Up Next in Project Earth
-
How to reduce E-waste?
E-waste is quickly becoming a more devastating problem for the environment around the world.
The Global E-Waste Monitor 2020 report, a collaborative effort between environmental data research and the UN Environment Program, found that the world dumped 53.6 million tons of e-waste in 2019. Only 1...
-
Wild dry west
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S. created by the Hoover Dam in Nevada, has sunk to its lowest levels ever, as extreme heat and drought scorch the western U.S.
The drought has gripped much of the West, including the Pacific Northwest down to the southwestern states of Arizona and New M...
-
Your climate diet
Cutting back on what you eat can cut back your carbon footprint.
How the food we choose and the places we buy it from have a major impact on the environment and climate and how average people can improve their diets to make it more friendly to the planet.
