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Japan Finds 7,000 Islands It Didn’t Know It Had

Japan's island count more than doubled to more than 14,000 in its newest mapping surveyance endeavor.

Tech News Nikki Main Mar 2

Exploring Santa Cruz Island

Twenty miles off the coast of Ventura lies Santa Cruz Island — a remote mecca for adventure. We spent a weekend exploring it. Here’s how you can too. After having a two week and nearly 200 mile sufferfest on the Sierra High Route, I needed to relax. My idea of relaxation, however, is kayaking around…

Tech News Chris Brinlee Jr Jul 23

The Most Isolated Town on Earth Wants a Radical Redesign

Smack dab in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,000 miles from human civilization, lies one of the most isolated towns in the world. It’s on an island called Tristan da Cunha, and for the first time, it’s looking to the outside world to plan its future. It takes more than a week to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 31

Cholon: Colombia’s Party Island

Like big butts? Just a 45-minute boat ride from Cartagena is an idyllic island paradise that each weekend and holiday turns into the city’s best party scene. Everything in Colombia is difficult and most things don’t turn out how you expect. While visiting Cartagena with the girlfriend’s family over New Year’s we chartered a boat…

Tech News Wes Siler Jan 7

A true survival story about a crazy fishing trip gone wrong

Red Bull is animating crazy surfer stories and this one from surfer Dean ‘Dingo’ Morrison is a doozy. It starts when he decides to buy a boat to try and catch the biggest fish he can. But him and his friends get too drunk and capsize the boat and end up swimming from island to…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 19

A Song That Sounds Like Vacation

Vacations are funny things: You pour so much time, energy, and daydreaming into them that, in the end, the reality rarely lives up to what you imagined as you refreshed Travelocity all those months. But if that imaginary perfect trip had a perfect sound, it would be the Portland-and NYC-based Akron/Family’s Island. I first discovered…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 27

Mysterious “Magic Island” appears on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan

A mysterious new geographical feature has appeared on Saturn’s moon Titan. These two Cassini’s radar images show a “mysterious geologic object” surfacing in the Ligeia Mare, Titan’s second largest sea. Cornell University’s astronomers call it “Magic Island” because they are puzzled by its origin and nature. According Jason Hofgartner—a Cornell’s graduate student and lead author…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 23

Coral Creeps Up Island Slopes to Stay at the Surface

Volcanic islands can develop a fringing reef of coral that persists as the volcano submerges, transitioning first to a barrier reef and later to an atoll at the island sinks below the waves. But how does the coral manage to keep even with the sea surface? https://gizmodo.com/the-life-and-death-of-a-volcanic-island-1554228926 Moorea Island has a reef that is mostly…

Tech News Mika McKinnon May 28

Watch this guy jump over an entire island while kitesurfing

I’m fairly certain that the idea of jumping over an island has never crossed my mind in all my years of thinking. But if you’re a champion kitesurfer like Youri Zoon and you stumble across a small enough island, well, that’s just another day on the beach for you. Jumping the damn thing and nailing…

Sploid Casey Chan May 23

Nine Eyes in the Pacific Ocean

Mataiva Atoll is a single island in the Tuamotu Archipelago, a small part of the longest chain of atolls in the world. An atoll is just a ring-shaped island, a sandy reef with a central lagoon, but Mataiva is a little bit strange. Mataiva’s lagoon has internal structure. Along with that whole evolution-thing for animals,…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 27

The Beauty of Islands

The Earth has somewhere between 2,000 and 40,000 islands, ranging from bare rocks to tropical paradises. And all are beautiful. Some islands emerge from the sea, from a volcano growing in eruption after eruption, or a reef built by a colony of corals. Others are part of a larger landmass, cut off by rising seas…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 22

The Life and Death of a Volcanic Island

Under the sea, volcanoes erupt, building land until they break the surface as a new island. These islands evolve and change as they age, following a predictable pattern of landform evolution until one day returning to the sea. The Emerging Volcano: Niijima and Nishino-shima, Ogasawara Islands Volcanic islands are born below the waves, growing from…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 5

Watch a volcano birth an entire new island

Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool. Fuji News Network says the island is forming near the Nishinoshima Volcano. The footage below was captured by…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 20

You Can Explore the Ghost Island That Inspired Skyfall on Street View

If this view looks familiar, it’s because it was the inspiration for the Javier Bardem’s cyberterrorist HQ in Skyfall. Now, you can explore the real-life island on Street View. While none of the Bond movie was actually filmed on the island, found just off Japan’s Nagasaki Peninsula, it’s certainly clear that the researchers spent some…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 28

Cloning Don’ts: Things to Avoid When Copying Yourself or Others

Are you thinking about cloning yourself or someone else? Well, STOP RIGHT THERE, SIR OR MADAM. The cloning experience is fraught with dangers you may not be aware of, or have forgotten, or are simply too dumb to realize (I don’t know how smart you are). Before you clone anything, read this. Don’t clone yourself…

io9 Rob Bricken Jun 25

What do you do with the soil from your canal project? Why not build a futuristic island?

Turkey has long considered the construction of a new canal, one that would connect the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea and provide a safer route for tanker ships that currently navigate the Bosporus straits. But what do you do with the billion cubic meters of soil that you’ve dug out? Architect Dror Benshetrit has…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 7

This Island Tiki Hut Hides A Lot of Money

You see that phone booth-sized tiki hut made of bamboo, stone and glass? That’s a specially made building that houses the only ATM in a village. On top of that, it’s completely solar powered, naturally designed for its island and holds a whole lotta cash. The Tiki Hut ATM is in Bali, fittingly located on…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 2

The abandoned man-made island shaped like a battleship

Japan’s Hashima Island is better known as Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island,” and it’s easy to see why. But this decaying city wasn’t destroyed in a battle; it’s an abandoned mining town that has been left to rot. Top image from Wikimedia Commons. We’ve mentioned Gunkanjima before. It was on our list of the 10 Weirdest…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 7

Dodos were always too dumb to live, even 4000 years ago

Well, “too dumb to live” might be an unfair characterization. But dodos are legendary for their complete lack of a survival instinct when it came to humans. Turns out humans weren’t the only threat they just never quite understood. Native to the island of Mauritius, dodos had evolved without fear of humans, because why would…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Apr 1

Neanderthals were sailing the Mediterranean 100,000 years ago

Humans likely first took to the seas about 50,000 years ago. But there’s mounting evidence that our Neanderthal cousins were routinely sailing throughout the Mediterranean twice as long ago. Alternatively, they were just really good at long distance swimming. We can’t know what sorts of boats Neanderthals might have used. Presumably, they were made out…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 29

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Japan Finds 7,000 Islands It Didn’t Know It Had

Exploring Santa Cruz Island

The Most Isolated Town on Earth Wants a Radical Redesign

Cholon: Colombia’s Party Island

A true survival story about a crazy fishing trip gone wrong

A Song That Sounds Like Vacation

Mysterious “Magic Island” appears on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan

Coral Creeps Up Island Slopes to Stay at the Surface

Watch this guy jump over an entire island while kitesurfing

Nine Eyes in the Pacific Ocean

The Beauty of Islands

The Life and Death of a Volcanic Island

Watch a volcano birth an entire new island

You Can Explore the Ghost Island That Inspired Skyfall on Street View

Cloning Don’ts: Things to Avoid When Copying Yourself or Others

What do you do with the soil from your canal project? Why not build a futuristic island?

This Island Tiki Hut Hides A Lot of Money

The abandoned man-made island shaped like a battleship

Dodos were always too dumb to live, even 4000 years ago

Neanderthals were sailing the Mediterranean 100,000 years ago

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