Would you live in a bamboo house that was built on stilts? Would you go grocery shopping in a boat that was carved from a huge tree trunk? That’s exactly what the people from the African town of Ganvie do every day. Ganvie, which means “we survived,” is a sustainable town located along Lake Nokoué in Africa. It was settled by the Tofinu people over 400 years ago.

13-year-old American boy is set to attempt to climb Mount Everest, in an effort to be the youngest person to scale the world's highest peak. Jordan Romero has set off from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, to the base camp on the Chinese side of the mountain. He will begin his ascent there, along with his father and stepmother.

Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is celebrated in spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Many communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.

Paris 26 Gigapixels is the name of the biggest assembled panoramic image of the world. It shows Paris in a very high definition. A gigapixel is 1 billion pixels! The image is a stitching of more than 2000 individual photos. Paris 26 Gigapixels has been shot on September 8th, 2009 and is now available for eveyone.

It's hard to sympathise with people who travel to cities and then complain about the endless traffic, rude people on the metro and bikes hurtling towards them as they gingerly cross the road. these are the reasons these places are called 'cities'. Otherwise they would be called 'the Norfolk Broads' or 'the Black Forest'. That said, who doesn't enjoy a more rural escape now and then?

Footballer Gary Neville has applied to build a flower-shaped eco-friendly house in Greater Manchester. The Manchester United star wants to build the 8,000 sq ft (743 sq m) four-bedroom single-storey home into a hillside in Bradshaw, Bolton. The application to Bolton Council includes plans for a wind turbine, solar panels and ground source heating.

The Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner says his next goal is to try to break the long-standing record for the highest ever parachute jump. It is 50 years since the American Joe Kittinger made history by leaping from a balloon at 102,800ft (31km). Many have sought to repeat the feat down the decades but all have failed.

So often we’re teased with amazing renderings of things that could be but never will because they lack a bridge between blue sky and real world. The latest virtual tease, a pair of futuristic yachts rapidly rising in virtual visibility, breaks that convention. Designer Kevin Schöpfer plans to set sail in three years. Schöpfer Yachts’ first design, Oculus, demonstrated a futuristic melding of boat, spaceship and fish at an impressive 250 feet long. Then came the even larger and more futuristic looking Infinitas, an astonishing 300 feet long. Needless to say we were intrigued.

Scientists working in Africa have discovered a Stone Age skull that could be a link between the extinct Homo erectus species and modern humans.The face and cranium of the fossil have features found in both early and modern human species. The skull is believed to be between 250,000 and 500,000 years old.