geography
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See the World’s Unsold Clothing in a Huge Desert Pileup
A satellite image shows where tons of fast-fashion items are heaped in a clothing graveyard in the Atacama Desert.
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9 Metre-Long International Bridge Connects Canadian House to U.S. Backyard
For the second time today, let me just say that I like bridges. For a start, they’re a great way of fording a gap, but they also can look utterly majestic. So now I’d like to introduce you to my new favourite bridge, a tiny span that connects Canada with the U.S.
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Space Agencies Are Tracking Two Explorers En Route to Antarctica’s ‘Pole of Inaccessibility’
Two men are three weeks into an expedition to Antartica’s Pole of Inaccessibility, an isolated spot that is 901 km from the South Pole. The pair are working in collaboration with NASA and the European Space Agency as they record the psychological and physiological effects of the journey, data that the space agencies believe could…
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What’s the Most Climate-Safe Place in the World?
It is easy to be pessimistic about the future. It is also easy to scientifically verify that pessimism through persuasive papers and charts. It is easier still to lose yourself in bleak visions of fires and floods, food and water shortages, widespread human suffering, violent apocalyptic cults, bad Wi-Fi, and from there, to numb or…