Deadvlei: The Beautiful Yet Dead Forest Sorrunded by The World’s Highest Sand Dunes
This sun-blackened dead forest in a white clay pan in the Namibian desert is called ‘Deadvlei’ (or ‘Dooie Vlei’), which means ‘dead marsh’. Once an oasis fed…
Welcome to the Largest Mirror on Earth
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, one of the first things they saw when looking earthward…
Petrified Wood is One of the Most Beautiful Things You Can Find in Nature
What is petrified wood? Well, it’s basically a fossil. Petrifaction is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having transitioned to stone by a mineralization process….
Glass Beach: When Nature Corrects Humans’ Mistakes
Back in the Soviet Union, the idea of nature conservation was simply unheard of. So the comrades decided to use Ussuri Bay near Vladivostok to simply dump…
The Glass: A Night in a Glass Igloo With Northern Lights Above It
Deep inside the snow-covered woodlands of Finland, you can find the Arctic Fox Igloos located at one of the shores of Lake Ranuanjärvi. If you stay in…
This nearly 400-year-old bonsai tree even survived the Hiroshima bombing.
It was planted in 1625 and is still growing. Image source: USDA-U.S. National Arboretum The ancient Miyajima White Pine tree sits humbly in the National Bonsai &…
The trees are permanently crooked and bent in this area since it is one of the windiest places on earth.
Slope Point, the southernmost point of the South Island of New Zealand, is a truly unique place. Due to the strong Antarctic winds, the trees here stretch…
Gigantic Upside Down Lightning Jet Reaches the Edge of Space, Giving Scientists New Clues
A massive electrical discharge known as a “gigantic jet” – the strongest one seen so far – that shot 50 miles up into space has provided scientists…
Could This Thing Discovered in Antarctica Be An Ancient Pyramid?
In recent years, a ‘new’ discovery of an Antarctic pyramid made waves in the online community. But is it even a pyramid? And is it one pyramid?…
Here’s What They Found At the Bottom of the Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole is a massive marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize, near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi)…