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By Adam Rifkin

 

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Solar power will be 1¢/kWh by 2025: “The promise of quasi-infinite and free energy is here.”

Overpopulation: The Human Explosion Explained, by Kurzgesagt

Google's Year in Search 2016 is surprisingly emotional and heartwarming.

The 15 safest cities in the world

Map reveals shattering effect of roads on nature...

India will build 1 terrawatt of global solar power – 4 times current worldwide total – and be a 100% electric vehicle nation by 2030.

47 of the world's poorest countries will aim for 100% green energy between 2030 and 2050.

World Population Living in Extreme Poverty, 1820-2015

Why the World Is Better Than Ever... and Will Get Better Still...

The Awesomeness of Earth from Above

Feeding cows seaweed could slash global greenhouse gas emissions.

Wonder Woman announced as UN ambassador amid staff protest

The Cost of Solar Power Has Fallen 25% in 5 Months

Update the Nobel Prizes

Climate Change And The Astrobiology Of The Anthropocene

The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently.

More Than 9 in 10 People Breathe Bad Air, W.H.O. Study Says

All non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population emerging from Africa between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago.

Tom Kerss on Twitter: "...an amazing but brief moment in history. Humans have operational spacecraft orbiting nine 'worlds' simultaneously!"

What You Need to Know About the World's Water Wars

Technology has gotten so cheap that it is now more economically viable to buy robots than it is to pay people $5 a day. ~Kaila Cobin

How to Feed Ten Billion People: Lab-Made Clean Meat Burgers are the Future of Food

The Future of Disaster Relief Isn't the Red Cross, It's a Bunch of Veterans

The Breathtaking Beauty of Our Planet's Destruction

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet

Are Index Funds Eating the World?

Visualizing how global warming has pushed us into a new climate regime

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority

Where did all our ships go? Interactive map of shipping traffic

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

Teen Leaders Of U.N. Girl Up Talk About Their Heroes, Their Goals For The World's Girls

Nearly half our global population is at risk of living in poverty or suffering total financial catastrophe if they need surgery.

The Mercator Projection skews maps. TheTrueSize lets you move land masses to different locations to compare them.

Check Out This 121-Megapixel Image of the Earth

Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts, by Peter Diamandis

Why the unnecessary Brexit vote hurt us all, by Felix Salmon

Why some countries don't smile...

An Unseen World by Paul Rosolie camera trap footage from remote jungles of the Madre de Dios region in Peru displaying amazing biodiversity

Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified.

Disney Princesses Singing in Their Original Language Native Tongues in 4K

Incredible Visualization of the World's Shipping Routes

Human Extinction Isn't That Unlikely

Identity 2016: 'Global citizenship' rising, poll suggests

Why Chernobyl will take 3,000 years to recover

A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2, and the Effect Trees Have in Reducing It, by NASA

This map shows the countries with the most robots

Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures...

200 Years of Economic History of 200 Countries in 1 Minute, by BBC Documentary Overpopulated

Types of Advanced Civilizations According to the Kardashev Scale

GOOD Magazine Shows What It'd Be Like If The World Were Only 100 People

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