Environmental Graffiti

7 Most Incredible Sunken Forests on Earth

Whether viewed from above or below the surface of the water, whether they are alive or dead, they stand like apparitions, almost supernatural in appearance by dint of the fact that they should not be there. Trees, common sense tells us, were designed to climb into the air rooted in solid ground, not water, and they certainly weren't meant to be found submerged beneath lakes, slowly rotting away like skeletons of their former selves.

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Life After the Flood: Tokyo and New York

The threat of rising sea levels due to global warming is one of the world’s great catastrophic fears. Yet whether you’re genuinely concerned about the prospect of major cities being swamped by the waters of the melting ice sheet, or dismiss it all as a flood of alarmist BS, architects Studio Lindfors found time to come up with a series of interesting images imagining what Tokyo and New York might be like if the drama does play out as many scientists think it will.

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Italy’s Drowned Village

Legend has it the bell can still be heard in the dead of winter, sounding out its knell despite the fact that it has long since been removed. The bell tower of the 14th century church that projects from Lake Reschen in the far north of Italy is all that is now visible of the once thriving village of Graun. In the middle of the last century, the town was drowned by the artificial lake that lies above it to this day.

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Five Sunken Warships, Submerged Beneath The Sea

Since time immemorial man has been dividing himself into tribes of one form or another, and since he first learned how to swim, that fight has included a nautical component. As our technology has advanced, we’ve been left with these ghostly images of retired and destroyed [...]

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