Recent Posts
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Have you ever seen a lynx hunting?
If not, now you have the opportunity to look at this process. In fact, the lynx’ hunting is no different from the cat’s.
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The Mother Bear and the Tiger
Seldom do you see a mother bear and a tiger in the same neck of the woods. But there is bound to be trouble when they do meet. These photos show a brief encounter between …
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Crazy Farmer
English farmer Tom Pearcy from York, England has created one of the largest “corn mazes” in the world.
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From a Bird’s Eye View
Winter aerial shots from a helicopter made by Polish photographer Kacper Kowalski. Very beautiful!
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Funny penguins on an Iceberg
Penguins up and down from Iceberg
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Lions Love
It happens almost the same way in the life of lions as it does in human’s life – wives start to shout on their husbands.
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Northern Elephant Seal Pups Share Kiss After Being Released
The two seals were released on the beach in front of their fans. The first seal is ready to go frolic in the water but waits for the second seal who seems not as ready. …
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Tiger Dives from Waterfall
In the searing heat, this tiger was looking for a novel way to cool off as it endured the rising temperature. The graceful but deadly cat first surveys the drop below before using her huge …
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Goosey Two Shoes
These nice folks were staying with us at the St. Francis Inn in St. Augustine, FL. They let me photograph their pet goose, who goes by the name of “Gator.” While walking alongside his owners …
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A Room in a $100 Thousand
Money – is an art in the truest sense of the word. In November last year, the German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann won a Hugo Boss, rewarding twice a year, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation …
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Cottage in the Swiss Mountains
Mountain hut Solvay Hut is located on the northeast ridge of the Matterhorn in Switzerland at an altitude of 4,003 meters. Belongs to the Swiss Alpine Club.
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The Fashionista Flower Hat Jelly
This is the rather rare Flower Hat Jellyfish (Olindias formosa). When it’s not using its long, pink tipped tentacles, it will curl them upwards towards its pin-striped bell to sit and wait until some kind …
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Predators and Their Prey
Talking about survival of the fittest! In the animal kingdom, size really does matter in order to survive! While successful predation results in a gain of energy, hunting invariably involves energetic costs as well. When …
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Mind-blowing artistic rendering of Mars
The outstanding digital rendering techniques of the Dutchman Kees Veenenbos have been featured in National Geographic and on NASA pages . The images he rendered are made with a landscape program called Terragen. He has …
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Marble Cave in Chile
Chile, Aisen region, the lake Lago General Carrera. Lake has an area of 1850 km? Border between Chile and Argentina, divides it roughly in half. Marble Cave is located approximately in the middle of the …
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Sunshine-to-Petrol Project Seeks Fuel From Thin Air
The prototype device, called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (CR5, for short), will break a carbon-oxygen bond in the carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide and oxygen in two distinct steps. It is …
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North Atlantic oceanic currents play greater role in absorption of carbon than previously thought
These results are published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The ocean traps around 30% of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere through human activity and represents, with the terrestrial biosphere, the main carbon …
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Europe’s Gravity Mission GOCE Achieves Drag-free Perfection
Launched on 17 March and currently progressing through the commissioning phase, GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) is set to measure Earth’s gravity field with unprecedented accuracy. However, to do this means that …
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Novel technique reveals how glaciers sculpted their valleys
While it seems obvious that glaciers scoured the bedrock for millions of years, what the landscape looked like before glaciers appeared, and how the glaciers changed that landscape over time, have remained a mystery. The …
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A renewable twist on fossil fuels
Such a feat could help reduce the rising CO2 levels implicated in global warming and also offer a new method of renewable energy production. Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a consortium of 98 Ph.D.-granting universities, …
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Effects of climate change in Arctic more extensive than expected, report finds
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on snow and permafrost. “The changes we see are dramatic. And they are not …
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Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel
The process is simple, efficient and recycles otherwise-wasted energy into a useable form. “This study provides a simple and cost-effective technology for direct water splitting that may generate hydrogen fuels by scavenging energy wastes such …
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American Gender Relations and “Green” Relations Interconnect Yet Fewer Adults Promote “Green” Practice: Harris Poll
Are Americans Paying Lip Service About Being ‘Green’? American consumers may be thinking green, but not actually acting green, according to the Harris Poll. When it comes to the environment, there is an interesting difference …
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Natural Gas Drilling Debate Heats Up: Read Propublica’s Guide
Republished Courtesy of ProPublica It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the fracking (hydraulic fracturing for natural gas extraction)) and natural gas drilling debate, with the documentary film Gasland [1] nominated for an Academy …
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Photos of Antarctica in the last Century
Very interesting to look like Antarctica 100 years ago? Look inside! From expeditions in the early twentieth century in the Antarctic were three well-known hut. They survived up to 10 thousand artifacts of the time. …
