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Leaf Beyond Belief: 11 Tree-mendous Examples Of Topiary Art

These 11 tree-mendous topiaries may look “bush league” but you'd better be-leaf creating them takes mad botanical skills rooted in a love for landscape art.

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The Earth as Art: 18 Stunning Satellite Images

Satellite imagery isn't captured solely for scientific purposes - these incredible images by EROS highlight the beauty of river deltas, mountains and fjords.

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Healing Mining Pits with Self-Sustaining Underground Skyscrapers

This proposal for the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition envisions inverted skyscrapers packed with life to fill in the pits left behind by mining operations.

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Fin Day For A Stroll: Seven Amazing Walking Fish

A fish out of water? In my environment? It's more likely than you think, as these 7 amazing walking fish gladly step forward to show.

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Super Fun Superfund? 13 Reclaimed Toxic Sites

Some have been 'cleaned up' by the EPA and others have just been designated, but all of these 13 Superfund sites have been reclaimed for recreation.

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Apt Adaptation: 10 Cool Converted Bookstores

The details definitely weren't lost in translation when these 10 bookstores were adapted from their former uses as churches, theaters, and even funeral homes.

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Guerilla Green Graffiti: Mossy Urban Art Brings Nature Home

The closest most graffiti taggers get to being green is using spray paint without CFC's, but some green graffiti artists are taking their art to a new level.

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Breathtaking Views of Mexico's Hidden Underwater River

Far beneath the surface of the water in a cave on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula sits a magical secret: a spectacular river the flows even underwater.

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Berry Nice! 12 Amazing, Odd & Unusual Fruits

Fruits are available in many more varieties than ever before, some of them decidedly odd. Are you up for strange fruit? Here are a dozen, ripe for the picking.

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It's Alive! 13 Examples of Green Growing Furniture

From mushrooms growing on benches to moss bath mats and even live crystals on chairs, these 13 furniture designs are unusually vivacious.

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Recycling Renegade: Guns Melted for Tree-Planting Shovels

Guns are the ultimate symbol of street violence, but this artist is turning them into something beautiful: shovels that will be used to plant trees worldwide.

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Bilbao Building Features Faceted Glass Facade

An unremarkable building becomes the center of attention on a Bilbao street thanks to an unusual energy-saving faceted glass facade.

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Stoned Souls: Bizarre Human-Shaped Rocks Sculpted By Nature

Pareidolia - seeing human features where they don't actually exist - raises its head when we observe bizarre human-shaped rocks like the examples depicted here.

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Great Green Ads: 15 Smart, Strange & Poignant Campaigns

Advertisers are getting clever - and sometimes controversial - in the ways they seek to focus public attention on environmental issues.

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Some Fine Dam Climbing: Goats Scaling Steep Vertical Wall

The daring sport of rock climbing isn't just for humans - these Alpine ibex are skilled climbers who make good use of a salt-encrusted dam wall in Italy.

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