Since 2000, Vicky Hedwig, who is Spanish but has a German father and a French mother, has been the conservation technician at the Albardinal, a garden belonging to the Andalucian Network of Botanical and Mycological Gardens. The garden is located in the Cabo de Gata natural park, in the village of Rodalquilar. It receives 12,000 […]
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Sonia Macías, over six hundred miles through the desert to vindicate the role of women
Sonia Macías, also known as ‘The Princes of the Desert’, has overcome one of the most physically demanding challenges faced by humanity to date. From San José de la Rinconada, Seville, she has run over six hundred miles (one thousand kilometres) through the Namib Desert in just twenty days, between the 5th and the 24th […]
An inventor creates a machine able to produce water in the desert
The prototype is able to produce 3,000 litres of water per day, even in extreme conditions like the desert. The machine captures dissolved water in the atmosphere, although it is scarce, and condenses it. The results have meant that the Namibian government, a country with serious drought problems, has commissioned production of 1,500 units by […]