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A New Timelapse Tool Reveals How Much Humans Have Altered Earth’s Landscape Since 1984 | Colossal
Venture back to the sights of 1984 with Google Earth’s new timelapse tool. Released just in time for Earth Day, the addition reveals our collective mark on the planet during the last three decades and provides visual evidence of urban … Continue reading
Three Gorges Dam: The Largest Dam in the World
It’s a big one. And pretty controversial too.
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South-to-North Water Transfer Project: China’s Redistribution of Natural Resources
What should you do when all of your country’s water is in the south, but all of your country’s people are in the north? Isn’t it obvious? Move the rivers up to the north! […]
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BBC World Service – The Compass, Water: Too Much And Not Enough, Solutions
Water is at the heart of many of the most serious ecological crises we face, including the biggest one of all: the climate emergency. Alok Jha shows how water itself may offer solutions to give us hope. Alok witnesses nuclear … Continue reading
Residents Bike For Safer Access to the Harlem River Waterfront
There is a growing string of green waterfront parks and bike/ped paths in The Bronx but there is one huge troubling obstacle to access: NYPD vehicles and personal parking obstructing sidewalks meant for safe passage to get there. About 100 … Continue reading
Guinea-Bissau: The powerful queens of Orango | DW Documentary
A matriarchy rules on one of the Bijagos Islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The tribe of the same name lives on Orango, one of the most populated islands in the archipelago. Women dominate public and private life there. This … Continue reading
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From Rotterdam to Amsterdam by boat, a time-lapse video | The Kid Should See This
Travel the Netherlands‘ famous waterways by boat with the help of this 11-minute time-lapse video set to the second movement of Antonín Dvořák‘s Symphony no. 9 (From the New World): Sailing Holland. The Timewriters short, filmed from Rotterdam to Amsterdamin … Continue reading
All Riders | The Fight for Accessibility
The battle for accessibility in the New York City Subway told by those fighting it. To become an ally, visit riseandresist.org/elevator-action-group to learn more.
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How Does China’s Social Credit System Work?
Everyone thinks of China’s social credit system as some sort of Black Mirror episode, while others compare it the the FICO score in the USA. It’s much, much more than that. In fact, I found the documents that highlight how … Continue reading
How Big Tech Betrayed Us | Rana Foroohar
How did the internet giants come to dominate our world? Big Tech firms are now some of the richest and most powerful entities on the planet – and we’re starting to see the effects of this extreme concentration of power, … Continue reading
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