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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

Thermal water can be green, orange, blue, yellow or turquoise. Several years ago, with the dream of making a book, I set out to learn and document how people around the world make use of thermal waters. Many told me about the ways they manage land and water as a collective. Heat ebbs and flows with each set of waves.

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Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

Cars That Think

Sometime in 2022, workers on the Hidden Gem will lower into the water a steel pipe of colossal proportions, one segment at a time, with a total length of 4 kilometers. But it won’t simply dangle over the seafloor, hoovering up nodules like a giant underwater vacuum cleaner. “At It doesn’t look like that’s the case,” says E.

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