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Furniture factory opens in a forest in Norway

Bjarke Ingels Group and Vestre, a furniture maker in Norway, opened up the PLUS. This is a furniture factory but it's a whole lot more. In fact, it's also an experience center and a 300-acre public park. This is an entire manufacturing village. The PLUS is an enormous facility that also has areas...
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Electric Vehicles

New Chinese EV puts Tesla to shame with a 578-mile range

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Exhibits

Feel what energy can do at this garden exhibit in Milan

A historical botanical garden in Milan transformed into an energy park that’s full of copper and possibilities. It’s a public exhibit that anyone can visit to learn more about different types of sustainable energy. The exhibit is called "Feeling the Energy" and it was designed to be part of Milan...
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Landscape Architecture

600-acres of land will turn into a climate-adaptive park

Origin Park is a massive climate-adaptive park that provides an expansive outdoor landscape to serve visitors from near and far. Simultaneously, it hopes to highlight the historical aspects of the region. Located in Indiana, just across the river from Louisville, Origin Park was slated for completion...
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Science

Human fossils found in cave questions origins of humankind

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Homes

The tallest shipping container structure in the nation

Architectural design comes in all forms. In the case of the newly opened IDA on McKinley apartment building, that form is six stories of steel shipping containers that make up commercial and residential space.  The build, designed by shipping container specialists at Local Studio, is the...
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Nature

Kaieteur Falls is the world's largest single-drop waterfall

If a massive waterfall sits remotely in the rainforest and there’s no one to hear it, does it still make a sound? Yes, a massive one. Case in point: Kaieteur Falls, the world’s largest single-drop waterfall. It's buried among the savannah in an Amazonian jungle and receives less than 6,000 visitors each year.  Kaieteur...
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Science

Human fossils found in cave questions origins of humankind

A recent study of human fossils from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa reignited debates about the origin of humans. The caves are home to Mrs. Ples' skeleton, as they nicknamed the fossils of a cave woman found. Her fossils date back to between 3.4 to 3.6 million years ago. “But it’s hard to...
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World’s largest direct air capture plant coming to Iceland

A Swiss startup is working on a solution to that pesky carbon dioxide that is killing the planet: burying it underground. Climeworks is building a ginormous direct air capture (DAC) facility in Iceland. The company expects it to be ready to start sucking 36,000 tons of CO2 annually out of the air within two years. Dubbed...

A Swiss startup is working on a solution to that pesky carbon dioxide that is killing the planet: burying it underground. Climeworks is building...
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Homes

Home is anchored to the earth, hovers over the landscape

The Orcas House on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands is an intergenerational family home under construction designed by Seattle firm Allied8. The home explores how construction material use can reduce global emissions. The site was the challenge that started the project. Orcas House is located on a small lot...

The Orcas House on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands is an intergenerational family home under construction designed by Seattle firm Allied8....
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Environment

Where is the most green and sustainable city in the US?

When one thinks of sustainable living, urban centers probably don’t come to mind. Yet, it’s where the vast majority of people in the country live and work. Therefore, cities hold the power to make the greatest impact when it comes to cleaning up the air and reducing carbon emissions. The team at Battleface,...

When one thinks of sustainable living, urban centers probably don’t come to mind. Yet, it’s where the vast majority of people in the country...
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Design

Artificial coral reefs help marine life and biodiversity

Climate change-induced storms are battering coasts worldwide with sea level rise, erosion and damages. More than half of coral reefs and 85% of oyster beds used to protect our coasts have already been severely damaged or destroyed.  Coral reefs are one of the best protections against coastal erosion...

Climate change-induced storms are battering coasts worldwide with sea level rise, erosion and damages. More than half of coral reefs and 85%...
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Food

Coveted black watermelons for sale in California

The coveted black watermelons are available in the US and are on sale in the Bay Area of California. The black seedless watermelon is treasured in Japan where it is auctioned in an annual event that sees prices hit the roof. This year, the auction of this first crop in the northern island of Hokkaido saw one supreme...

The coveted black watermelons are available in the US and are on sale in the Bay Area of California. The black seedless watermelon is treasured...
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Animals

Two women arrested with 109 live wild animals in airport

Two Indian women have been arrested at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand after they were found with 109 live wild animals, including 20 snakes, 50 lizards, 35 turtles, two white porcupines, and two armadillos. The animals were detected in two suitcases by an X-ray scan, prompting officials at the airport...

Two Indian women have been arrested at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand after they were found with 109 live wild animals, including...