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Air pollution must stop! A natural remedy to freshen your home
The problem I choose is about air pollution and how we can solve it. There are 7.7bilion people on this earth and the human race has evolved and come a very long way. As humans, we have ruined the planet with deforestation, pollution, environmental destruction and we have made many species of animals endangered due to our habits. Air pollution is caused by many things like fires and smoke from factories that release ashes and clouds of smoke into the air, which if inhaled could be really bad for your health. My solution to stop air pollution is very simple for your house so that you can have...
All people fight against the epidemic
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Women and Access to Healthcare
Part of why international development is so complex is the intricate intertwining of various seemingly separate facets - from gender equality to healthcare to education to climate justice, every part is only a small fraction of a greater whole. However, this intersectionality can also be beneficial, as targeting one facet can lead to progress in another. One such example is the achievement of gender equality through access to healthcare. In many parts of the world, a lack of access to healthcare has presented itself in the form of low quality reproductive healthcare. Services such as antenatal...
Suffering in silence: Modern teenage mentality
When you're a child, you used to cry over things such as tripping and falling. Some cry from the searing pain in their leg or even at the mere sight of blood. But someone was always there; to bandage your wounds and wipe your tears away. Easily empathizing, they could see the physical pain your delicate body was being put in. But as children get older, the societal pressures of life tend to mess with their psyche. Unfortunately, these teenagers feelings are being overlooked and glossed over with the excuse "You're just a teenager, what could you possibly be upset about?". Teenagers are in an...
Leveraging tech for better
I was born in a world surrounded by technology. My school recess was playing basketball on the Wii, memorizing the multiplication table was reaching level 10 in online math games, and putting a song disc in my music player was searching up a song on YouTube. My name is Alisha Arora and I am an ambitious 15-year-old on the mission to leverage technology to prevent suicide. In middle school, I always felt distant from technology because in my school STEM was a “boys” thing and the baking and knitting club was for us girls. I remember watching the boys on my robotics team build a massive robot...
Inventor Erfan Nouraee on using youth-led innovations to build a sustainable future for all
Erfan Nouraee is a 20-year-old inventor, scientist and speaker from Canada. His passion is to use technology and innovation to invent devices that protect and conserve our environment from threats. Nouraee won the United Nations’ International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA) Invention and Innovation Competition in 2021. Erfan’s mission is to inspire others to invent their own solutions and to promote the importance of protecting our environment through innovation. “I am Erfan Nouraee, an inventor, technologist and a speaker. When I was 16 years old, I had an idea to make reliable...
The COVID-19 Vaccine: Myth vs. Fact
As COVID-19 vaccine production and rollout has continued to increase across the world, misinformation surrounding the vaccines and their development has escalated. Here are seven common myths about getting vaccinated: Myth: The development of the COVID-19 vaccine was rushed, so its efficacy and safety cannot be trusted. Fact: The clinical trials completed to test the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines followed all the standard processes, including the creation of a placebo group, independent bodies that monitored the data, and independent bodies that monitored the safety. Reasons for which...
Leveraging Duckweed for a More Sustainable and Scalable Bioplastic
What do shoes, tea bags, T-shirts, and mobile phones have in common? It may come as a surprise that they all contain plastic, and it is not unlikely that most of the items you use in your everyday life contain plastic as well. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean with an addition of 8 million pieces every day, and at this rate, we could be left with more plastic than fish in the ocean by the year 2050. I’m a 15-year-old passionate about sustainability, and I have the goal of playing a role in transforming the way we manufacture plastic. Plastic pollution is not news to us; we...