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• Why we are in 'the age of artificial islands'

  By Richard Fisher, Javier Hirschfeld| BBC Verified Why we are in 'the age of artificial islands'(Image credit: Alamy)We are building more islands than ever before. In the latest edition of our photographic series Anthropo-Scene, we explore the striking results of humanity's attempts to colonise the world's lakes and oceans with new land. HHundreds of years ago, the Lau people of the Solomon Islands built around 80 artificial islands in a lagoon, placing bits of coral and rock into the water, piece by piece. It took them centuries.

  By Richard Fisher, Javier Hirschfeld · BBC

  Jan. 07, 2022

• How your phone battery creates striking alien landscapes

  By Richard Fisher, Javier Hirschfeld| BBC Verified There's a global hunt for lithium to power our devices and electric vehicles. In the latest of our photographic series Anthropo-Scene, we explore the distinctive terrain where the stuff is mined. Beneath the screen that you are reading this on, there could be the distilled essence of a salt plain. Millions of years ago, volcanoes deposited minerals over vast tracts of South America. Later, water leached through the rock to form massive lakes.

  By Richard Fisher, Javier Hirschfeld · BBC

  Aug. 10, 2021

• Why we are in 'the age of artificial islands'

  By Richard Fisher, Javier Hirschfeld| BBC Verified Why we are in 'the age of artificial islands'(Image credit: Alamy)We are building more islands than ever before. In the latest edition of our photographic series Anthropo-Scene, we explore the striking results of humanity's attempts to colonise the world's lakes and oceans with new land. HHundreds of years ago, the Lau people of the Solomon Islands built around 80 artificial islands in a lagoon, placing bits of coral and rock into the water, piece by piece. It took them centuries.

  By Richard Fisher, Javier Hirschfeld · BBC

  Jan. 07, 2022

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