Sand dunes and yellow polar trees, Taklamakan Desert (China)
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Urban Treehouse Uses 150 Trees To Protect Residents From Noise And Pollution
Luciano Pia, an architect in Italy, has a beautiful vision for how people and nature can live together even in a thoroughly urban landscape. 25 Verde, an apartment complex he designed in Turin, Italy, is a woven 5-story mix of lush trees and steel girders that let urban residents feel like they live in a giant urban tree-house.
Every step in the building’s design was taken with natural integration in mind. The organic and asymmetric shape of its terraces allow potted trees to “sprout” out from the building at random intervals. The ponds in the courtyard provide residents with a refreshing place to relax in the summer, and the 150 deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter, allow light to filter in to the building during the darker months. The building helps keep the city’s air cleaner and isolates the residents from the urban sounds and smells surrounding them.The building, which was completed in 2012, is located at Via Chabrera 25 in Turin, Italy – you can even check it out on Google Maps‘ street view!
Via:http://www.boredpanda.com/urban-treehouse-green-architecture-25-verde-luciano-pia-turin-italy/
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Courtney Fire Closeup (fire on the water, smoke in the sky) (by Darvin Atkeson)
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elephant aerial shots by (click pic) michael nichols, tyler hicks, alex bernasconi, michael poliza and brent stirton over botswana’s okavango delta, namibia’s damaraland and soussusvlei, kenya’s masai mara and chad’s zakouma national park .
consider that an african elephant is killed by poachers every 15 minutes, and if current trends continue unabated, they will be extinct in a decade.
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Meet Creatures of the Coast at the California Coastal National Monument
The California Coastal National Monument, a part of the BLM’s National Conservation Lands, stretches the entire length of California’s 1,100 mile coastline. With more than 20,000 islands, rocks, reefs, and pinnacles, there is plenty to see and experience.
Checkout this website for tips on viewing wildlife in coastal California:
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/wildlifeobs.html #SeeBLMPhotos by Justin R. Robbins, Outdoor Recreation Planner for the BLM-California King Range National Conservation Area
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Jacob’s Well
Jacob’s Well is one of the most significant natural geologic treasures in the Texas Hill Country. It is one of the longest underwater caves in Texas and an artesian spring. Jacob’s Well surges up thousands of gallons of water per minute and acts as headwaters to the Cypress Creek that flows through Wimberley, sustaining Blue Hole and the Blanco River, recharging the Edwards Aquifer, and finally replenishing estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Out of use tunnel near Heathrow, London
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