environment

We have to save these guys.

Will Aral ever return?

This is what makes living near Mount Vesuvius so dangerous!

Skiing down a power plant is now a reality.

Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmental activist, lived in a giant 1500 year old redwood tree named Luna for 738 days to protest logging.

Ways to not come up dry.

Water is a resource that is becoming more and more precious in many parts of the US, including Florida. Here are some evident and less evident ways to save some (click to enlarge).

No surprises there. The UK is almost full.

Inspired by Nik’s thought-provoking map of unpopulated areas of the United States, Georgia Corr wondered what a similar map of Great Britain -  an island renowned for an imbalance between landmass and population - would look like.  Are there uninhabited places at all? The resulting map is based on the most recent 2011 census, with a spatial resolution of 1km x 1km...

You need to plant more trees, earthlings.

These amazing maps by Jakub Marian showing the tree cover and human settlements of various parts of the world, based on data by the U.S. Geological Survey from 2010. It is surprising to see that such a large part of Planet Earth has no trees at all. Plant more of them, earthlings.

Yupp.