Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
(via Princeton) In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture
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The World’s Trashiest Beach Is on a Remote Island in the South Pacific
(via Atlas Obscura) Imagine the most perfect square meter of white sandy beach you can. Now take 671 separate bits
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This Couple Nursed a Rainforest Back to Life
(via Great Big Story) What was once 300 acres of coffee and cardamom fields in India’s Southern Ghats is now
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Six Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever
(via Gizmodo) It seems counterintuitive, right? Rip out eight lanes of freeway through the middle of your metropolis and you’ll
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When Giant Sequoias Were Sacrificed for Traveling Sideshows
(via Atlas Obscura) During the second half of the 19th century, when traveling sideshows were all the rage, the so-called
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15 Famous Landmarks Zoomed Out Tell a Bigger Story
We’ve seen them in pictures and in guidebooks. The world’s most famous landmarks live in popular imagination in their idealized
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