All stories in Land
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It actually happened — Akon just founded his own crypto city in Africa
Yeah, I don't know either. 2020 is fucking wild. Akon City is going to be powered by a cryptocurrency called Akoin, what ...
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Animals and plants help engineers light up cities, detect explosives, and predict natural disasters
For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and ...
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Google wants to be a 'good neighbor' by pledging $1B to Bay Area housing
Google will help build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by pledging $1 billion toward the goal, including ...
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Microalgae could be the future of sustainable farming
You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the ...
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Here's why privately-owned cities are a terrible idea
Over the last five years, something strange has happened at the eastern edge of Karachi, the crowded megalopolis in southern ...
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Ancient whales had four legs, and split their time between land and sea
Whales belong in the ocean, right? That may be true today, but cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) actually descended ...
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Humans have completely destabilized land animal diversity
Species living on land make up 85 percent to 95 percent of all biodiversity on Earth today. This is especially impressive ...