Photograph via New 7 Wonders of Nature The Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. It’s a hypersaline lake that is truly one of Earth’s unique places. Below you will find ten interesting facts…
THE TEA FIELDS OF BOSEON, KOREA Photograph by Flash Parker on Flickr Located on the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula in the southwestern province of Jeollanam-do, Boseong is a land of rolling hills covered in verdant green tea fields. Boseong-gun is the largest tea-growing county in Korea. It is known in…
“SEE YOU LATER” SAID THE ALLIGATOR Photograph by Marina Scarr In this incredible photograph by Marina Scarr, we see an American Alligator about to chow down on an unlucky Florida gar. The photo was posted yesterday to National Geographic’s Facebook page where it has quickly amassed 95,000 ‘Likes’ and 33,000 shares! The…
AN ILLUMINATED SNOW TUNNEL IN RUSSIA Photograph by Michael Zelensky In this incredible photograph by Michael Zelensky, we see the entrance to an amazing snow tunnel that’s almost a kilometer long. Michael says the tunnel is located under snow fields in the deep ravines at the end of the summer thaw (translated…
As part of Singapore’s redevelopment and new downtown area at Marina Bay, the sprawling 250-acre Gardens by the Bay is an incredible public space with gardens, bridges, skywalks, parks and plants. The green development has been proclaimed a ‘horticultural heaven’. The attractions garnering the most buzz are the two massive climate-controlled biomes called…
AMAZING MUSHROOM STORM CLOUD OVER BEIJING Photograph by Imaginechina / Rex Features Spotted last Thursday over Beijing was this incredible mushroom-like cumulonimbus storm cloud as a plane flies past, giving us a great indication of how massive this cloud really is. Apparently this gigantic cloud took over 70 minutes to form and…
JUPITER ECLIPSING THE SUN Photograph by M. Belton (NOAO), J. Burns (Cornell) et al., Galileo Project, JPL, NASA In this incredible photograph taken from the Galileo Spacecraft we can see an eclipse of the sun by the planet Jupiter. What’s equally remarkable about this shot is that the reflected sunlight also shows…
THE LARGEST WATERFALL IN EUROPE Photograph by Tim Bekaert Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajokull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and is reputed to be the most powerful waterfall in Europe [Source]. It is situated on the Jokulsa a Fjollum river, which flows from the Vatnajokull glacier and collects water from a…
THE HONEYBEE’S FINAL STING Photograph by Kathy Keatley Garvey If you’ve ever wondered why honeybees tend to die after stinging someone this picture says it all. In an incredible capture by Kathy Keatley Garvey, a UC Davis Communications Specialist in the Department of Enomology, we see a bee stinging a person’s arm…
JAPANESE TEA PLANTATION NEAR MOUNT FUJI Photograph via 94svtcobra on Reddit Unfortunately I am short on information about this lovely picture that shows a tea plantation in Shizuoka, Japan as Mount Fuji looms in the background. I tried a reverse image search on Google and Tineye but it did not lead to…
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