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Fertile Grounds: Low-Tech “Sand Dams” Breathe New Life into African Drylands

When it rains, it can pour, but in the world's drylands the net result can be disastrous: flows of water washing away useful soil and what little gets left behind dries up, forcing locals to take ...

Recycled Islands: Floating Dutch Park Constructed from Waterway Waste

A fresh new type of park-on-the-water in Rotterdam is turned plastic trash that once polluted the area into a series of hexagonal pods now open to the public. The design is built to scale, too -- ...

Reinventing the Cat: Mobile Succulent Planter Robot Seeks Out Sunlight

This robotic "smart" planter wanders around on six articulated legs to make sure your precious greens get enough natural light, prompting the observation: "This is called a cat. You've invented ...

Whale of a Sculpture: Repurposing 5 Tons of Plastic Pollution Ocean Pollution

Standing nearly 40 feet tall, this giant arcing whale is composed entirely of plastic waste gathered from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, carefully assembled in a canal of Bruges, ...

Coralarium: Ocean’s First Intertidal Art Museum Doubles as Marine Habitat

A new first-of-its-kind underwater art museum in the Maldives features exhibits and sculptures at various levels, from the seabed through the intertidal waterline and up to the skyline, designed ...

Forest Foundation: The 10,000,000 Underwater Logs that Hold up Venice

It is hard to walk through Venice, Italy without wondering how the place was built, its architecture rising inexplicably out of the dark water below, or how water, power and internet traverse its ...

Drifting to Sleep: Snooze on Water in the World’s First Floating Tent

"The world is your waterbed" according to SmithFly, the creators of the floating Shoal Tent, an inflatable sleeping craft that lets you drift off while drifting out on the water. The base ...

Underwater Castle: 3,000-Year-Old Ruin Discovered in Turkey’s Largest Lake

Deep in Turkey's biggest body of water, Lake Van, a secret fortress lay dormant for thousands of years, discovered recently by a team of university archaeologists following local rumors of a ...

Sea Wall: Dark Multi-Story Mural Shows Stormy Waters on City Streets

Lapping up the side of a three-story building in Kiev, Ukraine, this dark mural mixes blue and gray hues to capture dark waters and skies of the Black Sea. Originally from London and ...

Water You Can Eat: Edible Drink Bubbles Aim to Eliminate Plastic Bottle Waste

So far so good: the creators of these edible water balls have begun deploying them at large-scale festivals, the kinds of places where hundreds of disposable plastic bottles are used and trashed. ...

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