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Every day a nightmare for this “Plastic Village” in Indonesia Two poignant films showing the painful reality of an innocent population drowning in the waste ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Deplorable! The word is not strong enough to denounce what the Race for Water Act team discovered on the east side of Java Island. The village of Bangun, ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Race for Water began a long stopover in Indonesia in early June where the boat of the Foundation of the same name will stay for two months. First in the city ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
The Foundation is exposing! Inspired by the universal exhibitions of the early twentieth century, La Mer XXL is an international, lively, spectacular and ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Race for Water begins one of the longest stop-overs in Indonesia where the Foundation’s vessel will remain for two months; Bali to start with and then ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
While Race for Water is sailing towards Indonesia, we come back on the 8-days scientific expedition which took place during our Race for Water Odyssey ...
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Geneva, Switzerland / New York, USA – January 23, 2019 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”), (SIX: WIHN) a cybersecurity IoT platform company, ...
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Over 100 volunteers gathered on Saturday morning at Wailoaloa Beach in Western Fiji for a beach clean resulting in the local community collecting dozens of ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Minister Semi Koroilavesau, Minister for Fisheries, Cynthia Rasch, General Manager of Point Denarau Marina, Andrew Paris, scientist at the University of the ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
While our Race for Water Ambassador vessel is docked in Fiji for the end of the year.. in Samoa, our previous Odyssey stopover, the Ministry of natural ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
From 3 to 7 December 2018, the second meeting of UNEA (United Nations Environment Assembly) Expert Group was held by UN Environment in Geneva to present ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
After 7 days at sea since leaving Apia in the Samoan Islands, Race for Water has safely arrived in a new port, that of Nuku’alofa, capital of the Tonga ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Race for Water is in Apia, Samoa until this Friday. Our crew already invite some kids to visit Race for Water Ambasador vessel but also some key stakeholders ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
First results of the two JPI Oceans Microplastics Projects (WEATHER-MIC and EPHEMARE) Race for Water hosted in summer 2017! Last week several marine debris ...
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by Water Guardian Research for Race for Water Foundation
Māuruuru and Nānā French Polynesia! Papeete, Moorea, Bora-Bora and Tétiaroa, four stopovers to get an understanding of the local issues of managing plastic ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Our EPHEMARE's Scientific Partner will be at MICRO2018 ! EPHEMARE researchers will be in attendance at MICRO2018, "Fate and Impact of Microplastics: ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Bora Bora, a small island in the South Pacific situated to the north-west of Tahiti in French Polynesia, is highly committed to the sustainable development ...
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Having picked her way along the outside edge of the reef, with its vertiginous depths of over 1,000 metres, and negotiated some majestic waves picked up by the ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
RACE FOR WATER FOUNDATION Plastic is a problem , but it can be part of the solution. Click on the picture to watch our last motion design. From ...
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by Kim van Arkel, Scientific Advisor for Race for Water Foundation
Powered solely by renewable energies (solar-hydrogen and kite), the Race for Water vessel is arrived to Papeete after a month-long passage from Rapa Nui ...
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