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Ultramarathoners Running 10,000-Kilometer Silk Road Route to Raise Awareness About Water Shortages

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turkmenistan running the silk road photo Photo: The Home Expedition / Running The Silk Road. Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the full length of the ancient Silk Road trading route to raise money for and awareness about water shortages in the arid Central...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Artists Turn Taiwan Wetland Into Ecofriendly Gallery

8:00 am in artists, arts, birds, Culture & Celebrity, taiwan, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

hsin yu art installation yunlin taiwan photo Artist Hsin-yu Huang's installation "Let's Nest." Photo: 2011 Cheng Long Wetlands International Art Project. In the small villages around the Cheng Long Wetlands in Taiwan's poorest county, people make what living they can from fish farms and agriculture, though most young people these days leave to seek employment elsewhere. In this remote and little-known place, however, something is growing: Engagement with environmental issues is on ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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