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The Climate-Safe Houses of the Future
When Brandon Jorgensen picked up the phone, he was in the middle of staging his latest house in Napa, California. “We are getting very very close to, I wouldn’t say fireproofing, but fire-resisting a house,” Jorgensen, an architect, said, speaking from the home’s driveway. He described the 20-centimetre wall of the house he’s building, layered…
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Trump’s Unfinished Border Wall Could Worsen Texas Flooding
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall loomed large in American consciousness throughout his campaign and presidency — and wreaked a path of ecological destruction as he raced to fulfil his promise to build it. And while Joe Biden has halted construction on the wall, what has been built (or more accurately, what hasn’t) is…
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The Doomsday Vault Isn’t Flooded But We’re All Still Going To Die
It was a story that was too good to pass up. The Svalbard “doomsday” seed vault had flooded because of global warming-induced high temperatures melting the surrounding permafrost. But according to one of the vault’s creators, the reports are pretty overblown and everything’s fine. Well, the vault’s fine. The apocalypse is still ticking along nicely.
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Drone Captures Hikers’ Near Death In Hawaii Flash Flood
Flash floods are one of the most powerful and therefore most dangerous things you can encounter outdoors. In this terrifying video, a group of hikers in Maui’s jungle is swept away.