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A floating two-level home.
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Architecture

IMMERST floating community is adaptable, modular and prefab

As buildable land becomes increasingly scarce, long-standing yacht company Stephens Waring Design has developed a new design concept called OASys (Ocean Architectural System), which could be the answer for coastline challenges like animal habitat conservation, erosion and lack of suitable development...
The exterior of a single-level home in a desert-like environment.
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Dvele prefab, off-grid homes are dedicated to the environment

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Fossil Fuels

ExxonMobil plays dirty to deny role in the climate crisis

ExxonMobil has turned to intimidation in attempts to stop its critics from taking legal action. The giant oil company is trying to use an unusual Texas law to target critics outside the state. Exxon has asked the Texas Supreme Court to allow it to use rule 202 to take on California municipal officials.   The...
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Animals

Polar researchers discover enormous icefish nesting site

They have see-through skulls, transparent blood, and they built 60 million nests beneath the frigid waters of the Antarctic Sea. They’re Jonah’s icefish, and a polar research team has just discovered what might be their largest breeding colony in the world. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener...
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HOW TO: Grow an Avocado Tree from an Avocado Pit

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Homes

Airavat is a home in the clouds flowing with beauty

Airavat, a "home in the clouds," is a new creation by reD Architects on the outskirts of Mumbai that casts a striking complement to its natural surroundings. Amidst arid hills and palm trees, Airavat is a picture perfect stack of cement, stone, steel and glass, complete with an infinity pool angling...
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Electric Vehicles

Ambitious new EV charging network launches in the US

Access to charging stations is one of the stumbling blocks for America's proposed electric vehicle future. Missouri-based EOS Linx found a way to combine its work in advertising, security, data analytics and renewable energy into an interesting package that could quickly boost EV drivers’ charging options....
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Climate Change

The climate crisis could sink the UK's economy by 2045

The U.K. is at risk of losing 1% of its economy every year by 2045 due to the climate crisis. This is according to the U.K. government's recent assessment of the risks posed by climate change. In a five-year analysis of the climate risk, officials determined that the U.K. stands to lose even more if actions are...
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Fossil Fuels

Coal production in China reached record high in 2021

Despite global cries for an end to fossil fuel use, China’s coal production reached record levels last year. The government encouraged miners to ramp up production, working at maximum capacity to increase China’s economic growth. China is the world’s biggest coal producer. Last month,...

Despite global cries for an end to fossil fuel use, China’s coal production reached record levels last year. The government encouraged...
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Agriculture

Why regenerative agriculture will reverse climate change

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Urban Gardening

Create your own trees out of greenscreen's 3D trellis

The greenscreen gsTree modular trellis system has won the 2021 Architizer A+ Product Award for conceptual design, the largest awards program in architecture and design. This unique 3D trellising system forms a tree-like shape that elevates and then spreads, growing plants to 10-feet heights. Similar...

The greenscreen gsTree modular trellis system has won the 2021 Architizer A+ Product Award for conceptual design, the largest awards program...
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Tiny Homes

Zero waste homes are 3D printed in less than 24 hours

Industries around the world are constantly innovating, however, the construction industry has been slow to adopt new technologies. Mighty Buildings is changing all that with the development of a concrete-replacement known as light-stone material (LSM) used to 3D print a home in less than 24 hours.  The...

Industries around the world are constantly innovating, however, the construction industry has been slow to adopt new technologies. Mighty Buildings...
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Homes

Carbon-neutral Nabr apartments are move-in ready by 2023

Nabr is disrupting the housing market with a completely new way to buy customized sustainable apartments. You can buy one entirely through software. Just as startups have given us new online options for car buying, Nabr wants to change the outdated way we shop for the right home. So where can you...

Nabr is disrupting the housing market with a completely new way to buy customized sustainable apartments. You can buy one entirely through software....
The exterior of a building with reflective, moveable shield-like structures. The exterior of a building with reflective, moveable shield-like structures.
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Businesses

Passive design helps Lucio building regulate its temperature

The architectural design of the Lucio office building in Lille, France, integrates with the sun for variable lighting and temperature control in a smart passive design. Developed by Barbarito Bancel architects for client Foncière de L’Érable, the new building sits in a developing area along the...

The architectural design of the Lucio office building in Lille, France, integrates with the sun for variable lighting and temperature control...
A landscape showing a tiered building composed of three blocks. A landscape showing a tiered building composed of three blocks.
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Businesses

Green roofs top Marmormolen's sustainable timber architecture

The timber design for Copenhagen's upcoming large commercial building Marmormolen shows sustainable architecture leadership from designers Henning Larson and Ramboll. Lush with green roofs, a waterfront garden and more, the project shows what a commercial building can be to a community. Marmormolen,...

The timber design for Copenhagen's upcoming large commercial building Marmormolen shows sustainable architecture leadership from designers Henning...