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Australia is building secret tunnels beneath its highways just for koalas. 🐨 Roads have become one of the biggest threats to koala survival, as these slow-moving marsupials are frequently struck by vehicles while searching for food or mates. To solve this, engineers and wildlife experts have designed dedicated fauna underpasses, tunnel crossings, log bridges, and rope walkways specifically built to let koalas and other native animals cross safely without ever touching the road. In the City of Moreton Bay alone, wildlife cameras have captured over 54,000 photos of native animals using these crossings since 2019.
Research from Southern Cross University confirmed that koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, and other species are actively using these underpasses to forage across both sides of busy freeways. 🌿 Transport for NSW is now installing a full network of tunnels and protective fencing along Appin Road, one of the worst koala roadkill locations in the state, developed in collaboration with scientists and local communities. The world's first dedicated koala log bridge, spanning over 27 metres, was built on the Gold Coast using locally sourced ironbark timber to replicate a koala's natural habitat. When a country builds bridges for its animals, that says everything about the values it holds.

📚 Source: Taylor & Goldingay et al., Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 2024. Southern Cross University / Transport for NSW.

18/06/2026

India's data centres consumed around 150 billion litres of water in 2025 just to keep their servers cool. 🌊 That number is projected to reach approximately 358 billion litres by 2030 as tech giants race to build AI infrastructure across the country. A single 100-megawatt data centre needs roughly 2 million litres of water daily to function. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have committed tens of billions of dollars to expand their Indian operations. Meanwhile millions of people in the same cities go without reliable drinking water every single day.

These facilities are rising in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad. These are cities already battling severe water shortages. Bengaluru's data centre capacity drew an estimated 8 million litres per day during the city's worst water crisis in 500 years. 💧 A 2023 University of California Riverside study found that a simple conversation of 20 to 50 questions with an AI tool like ChatGPT consumes around 500 ml of water. India currently has no strict federal caps on how much potable water a private data centre can consume even in drought-prone areas. Every search. Every prompt. Every click. Someone somewhere pays the price. 🌍

📚 Source: Reccessary / Compute Forecast / Earth Journalism Network / University of California Riverside, 2025–2026. World Bank, JLL India Infrastructure Report.