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The interior space of the Isla Modern Caravan.
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Architecture

Couple restores an old Airstream into a chic tiny home on wheels

Embracing an on-the-road lifestyle and downsizing your belongings doesn't necessarily mean sacrificing style. Kate Oliver and Ellen Prasse renovated an old Airstream into a chic and sophisticated living space. The ambitious couple, who run renovation company Modern Caravan, had their work cut out for them from...
Plastic shopping bags squashed into bales for recycling
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Environment

Governor Cuomo announces a bill to ban single-use plastic bags in New York state

Could New York be the next state to ban plastic bags? Ten cities and towns in New York have already put plastic bag bans in place. Now the rest of state could follow. Governor Andrew Cuomo just introduced a bill to ban single-use plastic bags in the state, where people use an astonishing 23 billion of them each...
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Cabins

Tiny alpine cabin rewards mountaineers who reach its stunning yet wild heights

The Julian Alps that stretch from Italy to Slovenia are a beautiful yet unforgiving landscape that seems impossible to build on. Despite all odds, Ljubljana-based studio OFIS Arhitekti succeeded in placing a rugged alpine cabin on remote Mount Kanin that boasts breathtaking 360-degree views over Slovenia and Italy....
A natural arch formation against a starry sky
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News

The National Park System just got its first Dark Sky Sanctuary

While there are numerous Dark Sky-certified National Parks across the US, the stunning Rainbow Bridge National Monument just received the world's fourth official Dark Sky Sanctuary designation - the first ever for a National Park System site. Rainbow Bridge already boasted one of the darkest skies on Earth, but...
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Maryland just banned the sale of puppies and kittens in pet stores

Maryland just became the second state in America to ban pet stores from selling puppies and kittens. Animal rights advocates say the move will help cut demand for animals from puppy mills. The bill, HB 1662, also encourages pet stores to work with rescue groups and animal shelters to promote the adoption of homeless...
Dairy cows stand in a green field under a blue sky in Inverness, California
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Environment

Cows could one day be the largest land mammals left because of human activity

The world's biggest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which can be up to 13 feet tall and 24 feet long. But this elephant — and giraffes, hippos and other large animals — could go extinct because of human activity, leaving the domestic cow as the biggest terrestrial mammal in a couple centuries. In...
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Flood under the Old Route 49 bridge crossing over the South Yuba River in Nevada City, California Flood under the Old Route 49 bridge crossing over the South Yuba River in Nevada City, California
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California's wild extremes of flooding and drought will only get worse as the planet warms

Between 2011 and 2017, California suffered through one of the worst droughts in its history. After the drought broke last year in what would be California's wettest winter in a century, extreme flooding caused severe damage and killed several people. In a study recently published in the journal Nature Climate...

Between 2011 and 2017, California suffered through one of the worst droughts in its history. After the drought broke last year in what would...
Three people are sitting at a table, hunkered over their laptops and laughing. Three people are sitting at a table, hunkered over their laptops and laughing.
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Architecture

5 major ways millennials are changing office culture and design

Millennials are changing office culture in visible ways — you can see it in the design sensibilities of modern workplaces and the thoughtfulness of office layouts. But they are also making figurative improvements which can be a little more difficult to see at first glance. Read on to learn how this younger generation...

Millennials are changing office culture in visible ways — you can see it in the design sensibilities of modern workplaces and the thoughtfulness...
Night view James Cook University The Science Place by HASSELL Night view James Cook University The Science Place by HASSELL
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Architecture

The Science Place is Australia’s first new LEED Gold educational building

The Science Place at James Cook University recently became Australia’s first educational building to achieve a prestigious LEED Gold rating. Designed by HASSELL, the sustainable building with state-of-the-art facilities brings together the university’s chemistry, biochemistry and biology research cohorts under...

The Science Place at James Cook University recently became Australia’s first educational building to achieve a prestigious LEED Gold rating....
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Public Art

Giant glowing bottle walls light up Singapore for “plastic binge” awareness

Design collective Luzinterruptus worked their artistic magic last month with an illuminated plastic bottle installation at Singapore’s I Light Marina Bay, dubbed “Asia’s leading sustainable light art festival.” The massive glowing artwork, called Transitable Plastic, comprised seven movable walls hung...

Design collective Luzinterruptus worked their artistic magic last month with an illuminated plastic bottle installation at Singapore’s I Light...
On the left, exterior image of the passive plus house. On the right, image of the solar panels on the home. On the left, exterior image of the passive plus house. On the right, image of the solar panels on the home.
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Architecture

The United States' first Passive Plus House generates nearly all the energy it needs

This beautiful brownstone in Brooklyn has been refurbished into the first Passive Plus House in the United States. Located in Carroll Gardens, 78 Third Place features an impressive array of cutting-edge renewable technologies wrapped in a thoughtful renovation that preserves the original home’s historic character....

This beautiful brownstone in Brooklyn has been refurbished into the first Passive Plus House in the United States. Located in Carroll Gardens,...
Mysterious holes in Arctic sea ice; image taken by Operation IceBridge's John Sonntag Mysterious holes in Arctic sea ice; image taken by Operation IceBridge's John Sonntag
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Environment

Even NASA isn't quite sure how to explain these holes in the Arctic Sea's ice

Can you identify the holes in the sea ice pictured above? If so, let NASA know. They recently posted the image, snapped over the Beaufort Sea, as the April 2018 Puzzler on their "Earth Matters" blog. They aren't quite sure what caused them, although they ventured a few ideas, including heat, thin ice, and even...

Can you identify the holes in the sea ice pictured above? If so, let NASA know. They recently posted the image, snapped over the Beaufort Sea,...