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How A Shipwrecked Crew Survived 10 Days Lost At Sea

How A Shipwrecked Crew Survived 10 Days Lost At Sea

Nature

On November 25, 2019, Chris Carney and his two-man crew, Pete Brown and Jun Sumiyama, set off from Japan on their way to Hawaii in a 42-foot sailboat. This is the story of how three crewmen lived more than a week in the middle of the Pacific in a wrecked sailboat with almost nothing.

The Daring Journey Inside The World's Deepest Cave

The Daring Journey Inside The World's Deepest Cave

Nature Videos

The Veryovkina Cave is the deepest known cave on Earth. It took half a century and about 30 expeditions for Russian cave explorers to reach its record depth of 2,212 meters. Speleologists still think there is more to be discovered.

Montenegro's Scenic Coast Spoiled By Greed

Montenegro's Scenic Coast Spoiled By Greed

Nature World

Montenegro is the only country in the world to describe itself as “ecological” in its constitution. But the exploitation of its Adriatic coastline, where developers are given free rein, tells a different story.

The Green Sludge That Could Transform Our Diets

The Green Sludge That Could Transform Our Diets

Food Nature

One potential alternative food source – both for humans and the animals we eat – is algae. Microalgae is rich in protein, amino acids, fatty acids, and vitamins. Could the green stuff that appears on ponds and lakes after a particularly warm spell be the answer to the planet’s food security problems?

The Trillion-Dollar Auction To Save The World

The Trillion-Dollar Auction To Save The World

Long Reads Nature Politics

Ocean creatures soak up huge amounts of humanity’s carbon mess. Should we value them like financial assets? Governments could confer legal rights on nature, effectively giving ecosystems the right to sue for damages—and incentivizing polluters to not damage them.

The Cost Of Keeping Singapore Squeaky Clean

The Cost Of Keeping Singapore Squeaky Clean

Cities Economics Nature

Founding father and first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew kicked off the Keep Singapore Clean campaign 50 years ago. The aim wasn’t just to make the city more pleasant. A cleaner city, Lee Kuan Yew reasoned, would create a stronger economy.

Peter van Agtmael

Inspiration
Peter van Agtmael
The 'Ocean Community' Responds To Rising Sea Levels With Luxury Houseboats

The 'Ocean Community' Responds To Rising Sea Levels With Luxury Houseboats

Architecture Design Nature

RCA intelligent mobility graduate Wojciech Morsztyn envisions ‘Ocean Community’, a series of inter-linked luxury houseboats as the solution to rising sea levels. Connected via walkways, the floating pods make for autonomous living, with the ability to store and filter water, channel airflow for cooling and harvest energy from the sun and wind.

How Big Oil And Big Soda Kept A Global Environmental Calamity A Secret For Decades

How Big Oil And Big Soda Kept A Global Environmental Calamity A Secret For Decades

Business Long Reads Nature

With new legislation, Sen. Tom Udall is attempting to marshal Washington into a confrontation with the plastics industry, and to force companies that profit from plastics to take accountability for the waste they create. Big Plastic isn’t a single entity. It’s more like a corporate supergroup: Big Oil meets Big Soda.

The Rise Of The Wind Ships

The Rise Of The Wind Ships

Design Innovation Nature

Commercial shipping – for many years resistant to the low carbon revolution sweeping other areas of transportation – is changing fast. Could a new generation of innovative propulsion technologies that harness the power of the wind help the shipping industry clean up its act?

Burning Out

Burning Out

Long Reads Nature

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Search teams are stretched. Rescuers are burning out. We are all less safe. Are search and rescue teams ready for the next big disaster?

How Air Conditioning Created The Modern City

How Air Conditioning Created The Modern City

Cities Economics Nature

The shopping mall would have been inconceivable without air conditioning, as would the deep-plan and glass-walled office block, as would computer servers. The expansion of tract housing in postwar suburban America relied on affordable domestic air conditioning units.

China's Man-Made Forest In The Desert

China's Man-Made Forest In The Desert

Nature Videos World

In 1986, the city of Aksu in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region began an ambitious tree-planting project that looked to turn swaths of desert into forest. The result was over 13 million acres of green that became the Kekeya greening project.

1UP Creates The World's First Underwater Coral Graffiti Tag Artwork Off Bali

1UP Creates The World's First Underwater Coral Graffiti Tag Artwork Off Bali

Art Nature

Berlin’s 1UP Crew have been on the road and have recently stopped at Nusa Penida, a small island off Bali, building out a coral farm inside an environmentally safe “1UP” tag/frame. The world’s first underwater 3D Installation that serves as an artificial coral reef to help regenerate corals and marine life.

Bernhard Lang

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Bernhard Lang
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