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Introducing innovative and sustainable solutions, Dubai-based company Dake Rechsand came up with different models to face water scarcity, mitigate floods and enhance desert farming in the UAE.

A boat designed to collect ocean waste took to the water for the first time off the shore of Indonesia's Bali island on Tuesday (March 21), marking the beginning of its mission to combat marine plastic pollution.

Phillips 66 is promising a greener future as it moves to halt crude-oil processing and build a massive renewable diesel plant in California, leading a global trend. Alex Cohen has more.

Shortly after Andrew McCarroll's wife was diagnosed with mental health issues, he turned to an app called Replika to help him cope. He forged a serious AI-based relationship with an avatar called B'Lanna, and he married her. But one day she started rejecting his advances. Francesca Lynagh has more.

Generative artificial intelligence has become this year's buzzword capturing the public's fancy, but the technology is also provoking some concern about its use and potential abuse. Here is everything you need to know about this technology. Kristy Kilburn reports.

China's Baidu unveiled its much-awaited artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Ernie Bot on Thursday (March 16), but disappointed investors with its use of pre-recorded videos and the lack of a public launch, sending its shares tumbling. Francis Maguire reports.

Microsoft on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a spate of unveilings this week by its rival Google with upgrades to its own widely used office software. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

Danish vertical farm company Nordic Harvest is looking to expand its output, as founder and CEO Anders Riemann hopes to ‘produce much more food on an optimized basis inside cities’. Ilan Rubens reports.

Digital platform Recapp offers a door-to-door recycling pick-up service for individuals, businesses and schools in the UAE to promote a sustainable lifestyle.

In front of an empty DJ booth at a London nightclub, partygoers danced to AI-generated beats in a unique experimental rave. Francesca Lynagh has more.

Nike said it will stop using kangaroo skins for its shoes this year, weeks after a similar step from German rival Puma, which would end a highly controversial practice that has drawn ire from consumers and animal rights activists.

The startup OpenAI on Tuesday said it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its backer Microsoft and Alphabet Inc's Google. This report produced by Chris Dignam with analysis from Reuters Technology Correspondent Jeffrey Dastin.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a seed that can be dropped from a drone and will drill itself into the soil. Professor Lining Yao hopes the technology can be used to improve the efficiency of aerial seeding.

Spain hopes to get to the forefront of the space transport industry with the launch of what could be the first private reusable rocket from Western Europe later this year.

A UK research facility is testing homes of the future by subjecting them to extreme weather under laboratory-like conditions; including temperatures way below freezing to extreme heatwaves. Ilan Rubens reports.

Japanese farmer Jinichi Abe is taking part in a venture that turns rice unsellable for consumption due to health worries into low-carbon plastic used by major firms across Japan. Rosanna Philpott has more.

California-based startup Relativity Space called off the planned debut launch of its 3D-printed rocket in Florida on Wednesday (March 8) over fuel temperature concerns, delaying a key test of the company's novel strategy for cutting manufacturing costs. Francis Maguire reports.

In the northern town of Bebnine, 25-year-old Mohamad Sabsabi built a wind turbine out of recycled materials, producing electricity for his family and some of his neighbors.

Chile has launched a program to protect the huemul, an endangered southern deer, by creating a biological corridor that includes more than 230,000 acres of land recently donated by the Rewilding Chile Foundation.

U.S. startup Relativity Space is gearing up for the launch of the world’s first 3D-printed rocket into space. Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations Josh Brost says the rocket "has the potential to make access to space less expensive, more frequent and more reliable."

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS), carrying four astronauts from the United States, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.

In efforts to reduce waste, Tunisian start-up, 'LIMS', recycles discarded factory cardboard into everyday furniture.

German company Vay remotely drove a car in Berlin while thousands of miles away at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. CEO Thomas von der Ohe says the company aims to "help solve transportation in metropolitan areas".

South Korean company Petnow demonstrated their pet identification app at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that they hope will act as a supplement or replacement of the microchips, tags, and collars normally used by pet owners.

British company Lunaz rebuilds old diesel-powered recycling trucks into electric vehicles, which are said to be greener and cheaper than an all-new electric equivalent. Ilan Rubens reports.