Retailer Helps Clean Up The Great Lakes with Robot Technology: Pixie water drone and BeBot Beach Robot by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Continue reading below, or listen: Retail chain Meijer recently announced it will be taking part in the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Program, an initiative to clean …
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New Partnership to Use Drones to Monitor Plastic Pollution in the Maldives by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Melissa Schiele, a researcher at Loughborough University, is heading a new partnership with non-profit organization Oceans Unmanned and the Marine Research and High Education Center that aims to utilize drones to …
Read More »Drones for Mosquito Control: New Tech for an Old Problem
Founder and CEO Bill Reynolds of Leading Edge Associates, Inc. and Leading Edge Aerial Technologies has been working on mosquito control since he entered the industry with a college internship in 1985. Now, he’s won an industry award for creative thinking and advancing public health efforts for his work in …
Read More »Drones Tackle Trash Problem in U.K. and Around the World
See this image change at Ellipsis Earth Drones are proving to be a critical tool for environmentalists. Now, a city in the U.K. is utilizing the sophisticated technology of Ellipsis Earth to address the problem of trash with drones. Cities Today reports that a pilot program in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) …
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