The trees look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, with their furry trunks and thin magenta branches opening up into the sky like a palm tree. But Singapore's 18 supertrees are more technology than plant. Constructed of concrete, photovoltaic panels, metal, and thousands of bromeliads, ferns, and orchids, the 80-to-160-feet supertrees are brightening up Singapore's skyline and cleaning the air. The supertrees are part of an extensive project to beautify the downtown district of Marina Bay, and hopefully...

The Crystal Lagoon's pool in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Crystal Lagoons) Is it possible that the world’s largest pool could also be one of the most environmentally friendly? Chile-based company Crystal Lagoons thinks so. The company’s technology is being used for the first time for the dual purposes of recreation and water desalination in 12 lagoons that total 100 hectares of water in the middle of the desert in the Egyptian Citystars Sharm El Sheikh tourist development. “These giant crystalline lagoons,...

A model for scale, seated on the 10-foot horse constructed from driftwood. (Photo Credit: Jeffro Uitto, Knock on Wood) When Jeffro Uitto gets to work on a project, he's not just drawing inspiration from his surroundings -- he's also battling the elements. Uitto is an artist in Tokeland, Wash. and he relies entirely on found pieces of driftwood to build his sculptures. He creates a combination of furniture and artistic pieces, some on commission and some drawn from his own...

Bosnian photographer Adnan Bubalo captures the rolling hills of San Quirico d'Orcia in Tuscany, Italy during Oct. 2012. (Adnan Bubalo) Bosnian photographer Adnan Bubalo says “weather” and “atmospheric conditions” are two “crucial” elements to his photography, especially in his series of ethereal landscapes of Tuscany. “Atmospheric conditions, changing the quality and intensity of available light, creates the scenery,” explained Bubalo in an interview with Weather.com. Bubalo prefers shooting right before sunrise, stating that regardless of what time of year it...

Unfinished Church - Bermuda, St. George Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world take decades or even centuries to build, but sometimes the years stretch on and the buildings are never completed, leaving them vulnerable to the elements. The weather can quickly take a toll on buildings that have been left incomplete and uninhabited. "Rainfall entering the building can cause extensive water damage," said Weather.com meteorologist Christopher Dolce. "Freeze and thaw cycles may lead to the decay of...

Aerial view of the Caribbean Sea, 2012. (Jakob Wagner) German photographer Jakob Wagner’s series of aerials over the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Seas show breathtakingly clear views of clouds from above, despite the fact that they were captured from inside passenger planes. “In common airlines the conditions are unpredictable,” Wagner explained to Weather.com. “The windows might have little scratches or they are just too dirty from the outside to allow for good photos.” In addition to the plane’s windows, Wagner...

The Chinese city of Qingdao made the news when its beaches turned green afterspectacular amounts of algae bloomed in its coastal waters, covering 28,900 square kilometers (11,158 square miles) and driving swimmers away with the smell. On the other end of the color spectrum, at Red Beach in Panjin (about 300 miles northeast of Beijing), a unique variety of alkali-tolerant seaweed will turn from green to a vibrant crimson red in the fall, to the delight of tourists who flock...

Ten years after a tornado felled 11 of its 20 bridge towers, the historicKinzua Bridge in McKean County, Pa., once considered an "Eighth Wonder of the World," is now a reinvented tourist attraction. Its ruins lure visitors by the thousands, and serve as a reminder of man's engineering feats and how Mother Nature can take them down. Originally built in 1882, the Kinzua Bridge once held the record for tallest railroad bridge in the world. It was rebuilt in 1900...

It's an adrenaline-junkie's perfect hiking trail: a crumbling 3-foot-wide path hangs 300 feet above a rocky gorge and has been slowly falling apart for the last 100 years. El Caminito del Rey, known as the most dangerous trail in the world, is a path in Malaga, Spain that was built in 1905. Originally meant to connect two hydroelectric power plants, the path follows the walls of El Chorro Gorge and has no handrails, according to Atlas Obscura. It's been a...

Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel during a rain storm for their annual swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague on July 24, 2013, in Chincoteague, Va. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) More than 100 ponies braved thunder and lightning to make the annual swim across the Assateague Channel in Virginia this week, thrilling huge crowds who came from near and far to see the wild ponies. The 88th Pony Swim was nearly derailed by the combination of a high tide,...

Officials investigate a United Express passenger plane that landed safely at Newark Liberty International Airpor after taking off from the airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) NEWARK, N.J. — A passenger plane has landed safely at Newark International Airport in New Jersey after the crew detected the smell of smoke in the cockpit. (MORE: ) Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says United Express Flight 4890 was headed for Pittsburgh. The...

In this photo provided by Jared Rosenstein, a Southwest Airlines plane whose nose gear collapsed as it touched down on the runway is surrounded by emergency vehicles at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Jared Rosenstein) NEW YORK — A Southwest Airlines jet that made a hard landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport touched down on its front nose wheel before the sturdier main landing gear in back touched down, federal investigators said Thursday. The nose-pointed-down landing described by investigators...