MAST: Architecture on water
Rising sea levels and a worldwide shortage of buildable land make the prospect of floating buildings and infrastructure more beneficial than ever. MAST is an architectural firm based in the southern ...
7 Sep 202526min
Colombia's cocaine submarines
Deep inside the Colombian Amazon hi-tech submarines are being built. When it comes to making the cocaine trade more profitable, there’s nothing narco-traffickers aren’t willing to try. Some of the sol...
6 Sep 202526min
Grey divorce
There’s plenty of chat on social media about so-called ‘grey divorce’. But are older people around the world really splitting up in record numbers?The truth is it’s hard to be sure, because reliable f...
6 Sep 202523min
Blessed with bread
To Italians, bread is life. With 250 varieties across the country, it’s eaten with almost every meal. Its importance speaks to national values of community, tradition, quality and - above all - religi...
5 Sep 202526min
Germany's timber detectives
On the outskirts of Hamburg, Dr Gerald Koch is surrounded by wooden objects - chairs, board games, paint brushes - ready for inspection. His team of scientists at the Thünen Institute of Wood Research...
4 Sep 202526min
Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk
BBC Trending: Why are some Americans yelling at clouds?On 4 July, just hours after flash floods hit the US state of Texas, killing more than 130 people, social media was inundated with unfounded theor...
3 Sep 202520min
Galicia’s wild horses in peril
Europe’s largest herd of wild horses, in north-west Spain, is under threat. Numbers have halved in the last fifty years. Now around ten thousand wild horses roam freely in the hills and mountains of G...
2 Sep 202529min
The Delacorte Theater
The Delacorte Theater, home to New York's beloved free outdoor Shakespeare performances in Central Park, has undergone an $85 million refurbishment. Now clad in redwood timber from disused water tanks...
1 Sep 202526min
