Spaceship-like skyscraper fights fires and irrigates Amazon rainforests

Fires in the Amazon rainforest are taking a toll: NASA estimates that forest fires claimed at least 33,000 square miles of land in about a decade, but a group of Chinese designers have come up with an idea to combat this. The Rainforest Guardian skyscraper to combat this. The structure, which gained an honorable mention in eVolo‘s 2014 skyscraper competition, is the brainchild of designers Jie Huang, Jin Wei, Giaowan Tang, Yiwei Yu, and Zhe Hao and focuses on collecting and distributing rainwater into the land as needed during the dry and wet seasons. Keeping the ground hydrated should help prevent fires, but if one does start, the skyscraper has "firefighters" — little drone-like aircrafts with made with water tanks and spray systems — it can deploy to help put out the blaze.

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