River Pollution is Recycled to Make Floating Public Parks

The Recycled Island Foundation has been collecting litter from the Maas River in Rotterdam and recycling it into floating islands that benefit people and the aquatic ecosystem on which they drift.

Yosemite spends $40 million to protect 500 giant sequoias

Yosemite National Park's largest sequoia grove in the USA reopened to the public last Friday after crews completed a $40 million restoration project to protect the nearly 500 ancient trees.

Dubble bubble dome will be world's largest tropical greenhouse

Solar powered dome in France will cover 20,000 square meters featuring a tropical forest, turtle beach, a pool for Amazonian fish, and a one-kilometer-long walking trail.

Chile just created 10 million acres of new national parks

The two new parks — Pumalín National Park and Patagonia National Park Chile — are already open to the public and are now permanently protected for visitors and the wildlife that live there.

World's largest botanical garden to bloom in the desert of Oman

The Oman Botanic Garden will be a whopping 1,037 acres of land filled with native flora, with two beautiful biomes housing the country’s most unique plant species.

World's longest suspension bridge opens in Switzerland

A 494-meter-long, 85-meter-high pedestrian bridge was inaugurated on Saturday in southern Switzerland.

Madrid's new 'Desert City' is a spectacular home for over 400 species of cacti

The massive 54,000-square-feet Desert City was designed to be an educational, sustainable, and ecological complex aimed at educating visitors about the vibrant world of the xerophytic plants.

Spiraling treetop walkway gives visitors a bird’s eye view of a Danish forest

An architecture studio designed the Camp Adventure Treetop Experience in Denmark, - a unique destination that aims to reconnect people to nature by elevating them high above the treetop canopy.