Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden(arctictoday.com)
92 points by davidja | 70 comments
Arctic Today news article reporting that a Palantir founder has purchased a large area of forest land in Sweden.
#natural-resources on Hacker News
2 stories tagged natural-resources, newest first.
Is the world really running out of sand?(practical.engineering)
471 points by chmaynard | 189 comments
Practical Engineering blog post and video examining whether the world is actually running out of sand used in construction and industry.