BBC - Future - The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets
The Aralkum Desert is covered in a layer of toxic, salty dust (Credit: Alamy) During the Cold War, Vozrozhdeniya Island was a top-secret testing ground for deadly Soviet super-pathogens. Despite over two decades of abandonment, their legacy lives on. On the Kazakh-Uzbek border, surrounded by miles of toxic desert, lies an island. Or at least, something that used to be an island. Vozrozhdeniya was
BBC - Future - The surprising place where cash is going extinct
Somaliland, a self-declared republic in East Africa, faces high illiteracy and has an economy ravaged by a civil war. But it might just become the first cashless society on Earth. Untold World is a special series from BBC Future that covers tech beyond the alleys of Silicon Valley – click here for more stories about how technology is profoundly changing underreported communities the world over. Ha
The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
From where I'm standing, the city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic sludge. Dozens of pipes line the shore, churning out a torrent of thick, black, chemical waste from the re
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