If climate change continues along the business-as-usual path, the 24th century’s new world will be in some ways more like the world of Ancient Greece – with what’s left of the world’s inhabitants trading around a single sea. For the Ancient Greeks, it was the Mediterranean Sea. For...

Some of the iconic winter landscapes by Pieter Breughel the Elder rank not only as fine examples of 16th century Dutch art. Paintings such as Breughel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) also serve as vivid evidence for the so-called Little Ice Age, a period of cold climate conditions and glacier...

Mapping data is everywhere now. If you have a smart phone or a Facebook account, you’re already using it all the time. A cornucopia of data streams has become available to the public, information is pouring in through everyone’s gadgets, and platforms like Google Maps allow for clever...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth was bathed in the warmth of an endless summer. Europe and Greenland were still connected. Animals were free to roam from Asia to North America. It would have been a relatively comfy trip; even in the most northern latitudes, there was little to no ice. The...

Imagine a world with balmy, 70 degree weather every single day of the year. Imagine that the sun is shining with only a few picturesque clouds passing by. In a veritable garden of Eden, all varieties of fowls are squawking, warbling and chirping away. Leopards lurk in the shade as lizards bask...

Bosco Verticale in Milan Will Be the World’s First Vertical Forest We’ve reported extensively on green vertical towersthat integrate plant life into their facade, but unlike many of those designs, here’s one that goes beyond being a mere concept. Designed by Stefano Boeri –...

Tianjin sets out to build the world’s largest financial center to mimic Manhattan Developers in Guangdong province might be constructing an entire historic Austrian town in Huizhou, but up north, city officials in Tianjin (天津市) are going one further: they’re building a bigger...

Field test by British academics marks first step towards recreating an artificial volcano that would inject particles into the stratosphere and cool the planet It sounds barmy, audacious or sci-fi: a tethered balloon the size of Wembley stadium suspended 20km above Earth, linked to the ground...

A surprising aerodynamic innovation in wind turbine design called the ‘wind lens’ could triple the output of a typical wind turbine, making it less costly than nuclear power. The International Clean Energy Analysis (ICEA) gateway estimates that the U.S. possesses 2.2 million km2 of...

In what could certainly be one of the boldest infrastructure developments ever announced, the Russian Government has given the go-ahead to build a transcontinental railway linking Siberia with North America. The massive undertaking would traverse the Bering Strait with the world’s longest...

Giant fly-swats and freight containers may help prevent catastrophic climate change, say engineers. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has come up with some ideas for what “artificial forests” – technologies that absorb CO2, in a similar way to trees – could look...

A kilometer of the tower, the highest in the world, which pierce the clouds Jeddha in Saudi Arabia. Exceed 173 meters of the recent well-Khalifa Burj Dubai, which for now holds the scepter of the world’s tallest building. Designed by Chicago’s Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill...

Will the Thai government build an aqua city off Bangkok’s shores? Thailand’s top disaster guru has sounded an apocalyptic warning: the sea is rising, Bangkok is sinking and the coastal metropolis will sit under five feet of water by 2030. The only bulwark against this scenario is a...

Urban acupuncture focuses on the selective redevelopment of appropriate sites within the historic fabric. It carefully removes what isn’t working and inserts a contemporary, appropriate intervention to stimulate urban regeneration. By capitalizing on its unique cultural assets, Chinatown can...

The rainforest is the world’s last frontier. Everyday, thousands of acres are being destroyed to suit the world’s living needs. Without taking into consideration what may happen to the world and our future. People are stripping away a place where special plants and animals live....

Imagine a city larger than all of Switzerland, twice the size of New Jersey, or with four times the population of New York City. Such a city is being built in southern China. Construction began on a high speed rail system earlier this year in China’s Guangdong Province, marking the initial...