Global warming can be difficult to properly visualise. If you’re not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages or ravaged by wildfires, how do you know it’s really happening?

That’s why projects like Climate Central are essential. This website creates maps that show which parts of the world could find themselves underwater due to rising sea levels as early as 2030

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2 Nov

BedZED has been setting a precedent for green living for nearly 20 years 🛏️💤

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♻️It could come as a surprise that the UK’s first carbon-neutral community was built way back in 2002. And it’s in Sutton.

BedZED was created by @Bioregional, a charity that works to develop more environmentally friendly ways of living

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🏡Co-founders @SueRiddlestone and Pooran Desai were looking for a place to build a sustainable office, but when Sutton Council put up a plot of land for sale, it was so large they thought, 'why not build homes too?'

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21 Sep

The story of young Tony Soprano is finally being told on the big screen.

It has plenty to please fans, but will it have newcomers wondering what all the fuss is about? 🎬🇺🇸

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At the end of The Sopranos, most viewers wanted to know what happened to Tony after the screen went black, not what happened when he was a boy.

But while this prequel is inessential and a bit of an expansive footnote, it doesn't harm the legacy of one of TV’s greatest shows

Taking place in 1960s and ’70s Newark, it centres on Dickie Moltisanti, father of The Sopranos’s Christopher. Dickie is part of a growing crime family, headed by his dad, the charismatic monster Aldo ‘Hollywood Dick’

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21 Sep

A billionaire investor wants to create a new 'sustainable' and 'equitable' city in the middle of the US desert 🇺🇸🏜️

150,000 acres; 5 million people; opening in 2030.

Here's what we know about the ambitious project 👇

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No, it’s not a mirage in the desert haze. Nor is it Elon Musk’s latest plan to colonise Mars 🚀

These are the designs for the city of Telosa, the latest project from billionaire investor Marc Lore and celebrated architect Bjarke Ingels’s firm BIG 🌆

Lore and Ingels’s ambitious plan would see an entire city built from scratch in the desert of the western USA 🤠

Within 40 years, the duo intend to establish a fully-contained city, which will be extended over 150,000 acres and have a population of five million 📈

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10 Sep

It’s been nearly 20 years since we last entered The Matrix. This winter, fans will be jacked right back into the post-apocalyptic world of kung-fu revolutionaries raging against the machines in The Matrix: Resurrections 💊🐇

Here’s what we know so far 👇

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🎬Is there a trailer?

In early September, the original site for the film came back online for a bit of viral marketing, giving a minute-by-minute countdown to the launch of the trailer, peppered with glimpses of footage and prompting users to either click a red or a blue pill

Now, after a two-day wait, the trailer has finally dropped. Scored to Jefferson Airplane's psychedelic ‘White Rabbit,’ it is loaded with gravity-defying parkour sequences, motorcycle chases, martial arts mayhem and an unexpected dose of humour

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9 Sep

Got lost in literature over the past year? Try one of these escapes 📚

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Spent the last year avoiding the news by escaping into novel after novel? If you’re not quite ready to let go of your literary lockdown, you should consider basing your next day out around the life of a famous author.

Here are our picks of the best holidays for every reader 👇

📍Agatha Christie’s Devon

The Queen of Mystery’s holiday home was no basic Airbnb. She described Greenway as ‘the loveliest place in the world.' It's now a National Trust property filled with trinkets from the writer’s life. Peep at her grand piano or browse the many bookshelves

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