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Self-watering soil could transform agriculture

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Self-watering soil could transform agriculture

A new type of soil created in Texas can draw water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding…

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‘Madman’ digs for two decades to bring water to his parched Indian village

Good Stuff

‘Madman’ digs for two decades to bring water to his parched Indian village

Using nothing but traditional hand tools, a 70-yo man spent twenty years singlehandedly carving out a 3-km-long canal to bring rainwater…

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This Indonesian man single-handedly saved his village from starvation

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This Indonesian man single-handedly saved his village from starvation

At first they called him crazy, but by replanting forest lost to fire this Indonesian man single-handedly saved his village from…

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Ice towers in the desert: the artificial glaciers of Ladakh

Better Society

Ice towers in the desert: the artificial glaciers of Ladakh

To solve water problems in a cold desert, an Indian engineer came up with an award-winning idea: freeze millions of litres…

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