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Asked by pacy520reap on 26 Mar 2025.
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Hannah Blyth answered on 26 Mar 2025:
My work impacts the world by helping wheat fight off diseases caused by a fungus. This is important because healthy wheat means we can grow more food sustainably. By making wheat stronger against diseases, we reduce the need for chemicals, which helps keep our air and water clean. It also prepares us for climate change by ensuring we can grow food even in challenging weather conditions. This way, we can feed more people while protecting the environment!
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Caroline Roche answered on 24 Apr 2025:
My work helps keep nuclear waste contained safely so it doesn’t hurt the environment or people.
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Luke Fountain answered on 15 May 2025:
My work will help astronauts grow food on future missions to the Moon and Mars, but many of the challenges we face when growing plants in space are similar to those on Earth – things like high carbon dioxide levels, which are really high in spacecraft and space stations, but which are also happening on Earth due to climate change. Studying how this high CO2 affects plants will help us figure out how plants adapt to climate change so that we can continue to grow food to feed everyone.
Growing plants in space has already helped in lots of other areas too – we now have LED lights because NASA took an interest in them for space, in part to grow plants using more efficient light sources. And some of my fellow scientists at Kennedy Space Center created the Biomass Production Chamber, one of the world’s first vertical farms!
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Andrew M commented on :
I hope by improving air quality and lessening climate change in however small a way. The division of the company I work for makes coatings that convert the worst exhaust gases made by vehicle engines into less harmful forms. CO2 might not have the best reputation, but it’s far less harmful to people and the environment than the hydrocarbons, CO and soot particles the engine would produce without our products. My role in helping develop and make the coatings making the fewest mistakes and using the fewest resources and energy possible means we get the greatest gain from them.
A desire to work in areas that protects or improves the environment is one of the main reasons many of my colleagues chose to work for my employer.
sandrarobertson commented on :
My work helps people find out what is wrong with them and then their doctor can give them the correct medication or send them for an operation. Our tests help decide if people have had heart attacks or are at risk of having a heart attack, if people are at risk of having diabetes and maybe just need to change their diet and how much exercise they are doing to stop the disease worsening their health, or if people have vitamin B12 deficiency and require to take supplements to maintain their health. Our test kits are available to hospitals all over the world, so it is really important that for a lot of people that I do my job right or their might be some serious consequences for our customers!
aureliabrzezowska commented on :
My work on a deeper level makes sure that anyone who trusts us with their data is kept safe and secure. Consider how much information you give when you create an account online; card details, name, last name, birth date and more. I make sure that these are secured and criminals can’t use them for evil!