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The Earth Archive Will 3D-Scan the Entire World & Create an “Open-Source”...
If you keep up with climate change news, you see a lot of predictions of what the world will look like twenty years from now, fifty years from now, a century from now. Some of these projections of the...
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16 Ways the World Is Getting Remarkably Better: Visuals by Statistician Hans...
It certainly may not feel like things are getting better behind the anxious veils of our COVID lockdowns. But some might say that optimism and pessimism are products of the gut, hidden somewhere in...
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The Eden Project Built a Rainforest Ecosystem Inside Buckminster...
Buckminster Fuller had a difficult time as an inventor in his early years. “Having been expelled from Harvard for irresponsible conduct,” notes The Guardian, “he struggled to find a job and provide a...
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Time-Lapse Video Reveals Humanity’s Impact on the Earth Since 1984
Google has worked with experts at Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab to develop a time-lapse feature within Google Earth, which allows you to see firsthand the changes to our planet since 1984....
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The Cicadas Return After 17 Years: Stunning Footage of the Brood X Cicadas
Sing, fly, mate, die. The periodical cicadas in Brood X are emerging from underground, where they have spent the last 17 years as nymphs. They are making the final climb of their lives, intent on...
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How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City
New Yorkers’ relationship to New York City community gardens is largely informed by how long we’ve lived here. Do you remember the 60s, when a fiscal crisis and white flight resulted in thousands of...
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Why Dutch & Japanese Cities Are Insanely Well Designed (and American Cities...
Pity the United States of America: despite its economic, cultural, and military dominance of so much of the world, it struggles to build cities that measure up with the capitals of Europe and Asia....
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Benedict Cumberbatch & Ian McKellen Read Epic Letters Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is one of those writers whose wit, humanism and lack of sentimentality leave you hankering for more. Fortunately, the prolific novelist was an equally prolific letter writer. His...
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Behold an Astonishing Near-Nightly Spectacle in the Lightning Capital of the...
Extreme weather conditions have become a topic of grave concern. Are floods, earthquakes, tornadoes and catastrophic storms the new normal? Just for a moment, let’s travel to a place where extreme...
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Discover Edo, the Historic Green/Sustainable City of Japan
When you picture modern day Tokyo, what comes to mind? The electronic billboards of Shibuya and Shinjuku? The teeming streets? The maid cafes? The robot hotel? A 97 square foot micro apartment?...
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Behold the Bridges in India Made of Living Tree Roots
Living green walls and upcycled building materials are welcome environmentally-conscious design trends, but when it comes to sustainable architecture, the living root bridges made by indigenous Khasi...
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A Surprising Animation Revisits the Miracle on the Hudson & the Cause of US...
Nearly 15 years ago, US Airways Flight 1549 took off from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, bound for Seattle by way of Charlotte, North Carolina. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft plowed into a...
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Open Planet Lets You Download & Use 4,500 Free Videos That Document Nature &...
Plastic pollution in the Red Sea… A melting glacier in Iceland… Trees scorched by a wildfire in Australia… As the effects of climate change become increasingly dire, we’ve grown accustomed to such...
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Pangea to the Present to the Future: Watch Animations Showing 500 Million...
Things change… Especially when you’re tracking the continental movement from Pangea to the present day in 5 million years increments at the rate of 2.5 million years per second. Wherever you are, 350...
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Free: Watch Our Planet, a Groundbreaking Nature Documentary Series Narrated...
The nature documentary series Our Planet opens with a startlingly stark observation courtesy of broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and author Sir David Attenborough: Just 50 years ago, we...
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What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change
?si=SRzcFjCCIvDbQ1f7 What could our future world look like if we continue to do nothing about climate change? That’s the question posed by a new TED ED video, written by Shannon Odell and directed by...
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