Start-Up Turns Greenhouse Gas to Food & AI Tutor Empowers Learning | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

This week's top stories of the week include:

0:15 Start-up turns greenhouse gas to food – Bangalore-based start-up String Bio uses methane as its raw material. This methane is either extracted from natural gas or captured as biogas emitted by food waste. String Bio adds bacteria to the methane in a fermenting vessel where the microbes convert the gas into a protein-rich biomass. This end product can be turned into food for animals and plants.

1:48 How to build a mental health-friendly city – There is a growing crisis in youth mental health across the world at the same time as rapid urbanization. Pamela Collins and her team consulted experts on urban planning, mental health, and most importantly, young people. Here are 4 things they found cities need to support mental health.

5:51 This AI tutor empowers learning – It draws on the wisdom of China’s ‘best teachers’ to create lessons specific to each student. China suffers from large disparities in education. Squirrel Ai’s open-access learning aims to level the playing field.

9:46 3 ways climate change affects kids health – By 2050, climate change will place immense strain on global healthcare systems causing 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses. How can we protect children from extreme heat?
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