Eddy's Good News: The world of robotics and more on mangrove forests

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28 Nov 2022, 10:40

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Monday 28th November 2022

Amazing news from the USA and the world of robotics as we meet a farming robot that can identify weeds, take them out and reduce chemical pesticides by 95%.

Say hello to Verdant Robotics who are targeting farming for their robots and AI systems, because it’s not just us that’s having problems with being able to hire people for our businesses. Their Spraybox system can be mounted to a tractor and this brilliant sharp shooting spray system can scan half a million plants per hour and figure out if there are weeds there, spraying them and only them with pinpoint accuracy, thereby allowing farmers the volume that comes from mono-cropping, but with old fashioned human precision. Soil health is a critical issue for the human race and this keeps the soil 95% healthier than the traditional weed spraying methods.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Some much needed good news in the planet’s war against CO2 and dwindling bio-diversity as new figures come in which show the planet’s loss of critical mangrove forests has slowed down to a negligible amount.

I’ve shared with you here, news of huge mangrove replanting projects, volunteers in their thousands around the world and even drones dropping seed pods and looking at the latest satellite imaging which has been monitoring this vital natural resource, it looks like we’ve halted the slide and it’s hopefully up from here.

Worldwide, over four million fishermen rely on mangroves as nurseries for a huge range of water creatures, not just fish. The worldwide summary claims that more than 600 billion shrimp and fish, and 100 billion molluscs and crustaceans develop every year in mangrove forests.

They’re also one of the fastest growing plants in the world so better for CO2 capture than any trees on land.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org