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New York-based jewellery company Aether has created the world’s first carbon negative and sustainable diamonds from air pollution.

While conventional bricks tend to disintegrate when divided into smaller sizes, Rhino bricks retain their shape and strength even if a hole were drilled in the middle.

Handmade by traditional craftsmen, each one of these carbon tiles equals cleaning 30,000 litres of polluted air. That's one full day's worth of clean air per person! #Innovation #Startup

Scientists at the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) used gold nanoparticles and, by rearranging size and gaps between them, developed a new material which has unique properties like the capacity to absorb light and carbon dioxide.

While there are some state initiatives in place to curb the excess of fluoride in the water, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) have developed a Jamun (black plum) seed-based ‘activated carbon’ to remove fluoride to the levels considered acceptable by the WHO.

US President Trump has announced the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement committed to reduce climate change. India on the other hand continues to show its key player status in the matter.