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Ice Adventures
Glaciers are mammoth, slow-moving rivers of ice that cover about 10 percent of Earth's surface and hold nearly 70 percent of its freshwater. But due to climate change-induced melting, those…
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Shifting Sands
When Oppenheim Architecture was approached about a project to build the Ayla Oasis Golf Resorts Comfort Station in Aqaba, Jordan, the project sponsor wanted something iconic. But the team was…
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Car-Free Projects Gain Speed
In a bid to combat congestion and carbon emissions, more cities are launching initiatives to build or retrofit car-free zones.
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Like a Sponge
China's drainage problem needs urgent and innovative solutions. Flooding regularly plagues 641 of the 654 largest cities, sometimes with high death tolls. And a 1-meter (3.3-foot) rise in sea levels…
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48: Tengger Desert Solar Park
Spanning some 43 square kilometers (16.6 square miles) in the open desert—and supplying power to more than 600,000 homes—Tengger Desert Solar Park was constructed at a never-before-seen scale,…
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32: Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm
Three decades ago, there wasn't a single offshore wind farm in the world. These days, there are over 100, the largest of which can generate enough energy to power 600,000 homes. What set off the…
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39: Sorek Desalination Plant
Few places in the world face a more dire water situation than Israel, where the vital liquid has been in short supply for millennia. In 1998, a new crisis loomed. Israel, like much of the eastern…
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24: Hornsdale Power Reserve
Elon Musk is no shrinking violet. In the midst of a heated debate on the best way to recharge South Australia's power grid, the provocative Tesla CEO threw down a daring wager. In a 9 March 2017…
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7: Prius
For nearly a century, the auto industry was content to churn out gas-guzzling vehicles that peeled away at the earth's ozone layer and drained wallets with fuel costs. That changed when Japanese…
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10: Svalbard Global Seed Vault
There's a reason they call it the doomsday vault. Buried deep inside an Arctic mountain in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built to safeguard the world's food inventory, no matter what…
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