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By Alexander Trevi For a more sober take on urban farming than Work AC’s agro-fantasia, check out this project by Mossop+Michaels for a Vietnamese-American community in New Orleans. Today, it garnered a 2008 ASLA Professional Award. Quoting the brief in part: The Viet Village Urban Farm project represents an effort to reestablish the tradition of [...]

by Mahesh Basantani We’ve seen a whole slew of gigantic, volcano shaped, city-in-a-building towers, each promising to be the largest building in the world. First it was the wacky X-Seed design for Tokyo, and then even Norman Foster got into the game with his proposal for the massive ‘Crystal Island’ development in Moscow. Well now, [...]

El Programa del Estuario de la Bahía siembra mangles rojos a orillas de la Laguna de Condado para contrarrestar los efectos adversos. Por The Associated Press SAN JUAN – El Programa del Estuario de la Bahía anunció hoy el inicio de un proyecto de siembra de mangles rojos a orillas de la Laguna del Condado [...]

Nueva tecnología ofrece cartografías más detalladas de esas formaciones en nuestras costas. Por DAVID MCFADDEN (AP) A BORDO DEL NANCY FOSTER – Ronroneando bajo el sol, un vehículo sumergible dotado de cámaras y otros aparatos de alta tecnología está aportando las cartografías más detalladas jamás conseguidas de los castigados arrecifes de corales de la costa [...]

Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:14pm GMT By Will Dunham A series of satellite images show Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf as it begins to break up. The images show that a large hunk of the shelf has started to collapse in a fast-warming region of the continent, scientists said on Tuesday. REUTERS/NSIDC/NASA/University of Colorado/Handout WASHINGTON (Reuters) [...]