In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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Nearly three billion people in the world – 160 million in India alone – cook on wood (or similar fuel...
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When the man who coined the term 'global warming' describes the scientist trying to reduce carbon dioxide levels as "the most...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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The age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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Never before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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Demand for fisheries has been growing at 6-8% a year. However, the global production of fishmeal has been steady at...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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This is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Aside from its susceptibility to cyclones, it is...
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Science and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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Agroforestry is the growing of trees and agricultural and/or horticultural crops on the same piece of land. Research in the...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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Drones are being used to hunt down poachers in Namibia. Using US homeland security techniques, poachers are being tracked by...
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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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The Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators (GTOPP) program is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration among biologists, engineers and computer scientists, which...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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"The wars of the next century will be fought over water – unless we change our approach to managing this...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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Known as the bread of the tropics, cassava is arguably the world’s most important and interesting vegetable when it comes...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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Africa risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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Tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It impacts on the lives of millions, providing employment and export earnings worldwide....
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The Philippines is blessed with fertile land and a climate well suited to crop production but the Asian island nation...
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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The food industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Already struggling to feed its population, in India...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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What greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
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“Five years ago, it was said that one of the main reasons people weren’t buying electric cars was because of...
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