Category: Nature
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I Combine Thousands Of Photos To Create One Image Of A Mineral
My Name is Chris Perani; I am a photographer who specializes in capturing the microscopic details of our world. My latest project, “Minerals,” exemplifies the intricate nature of minerals, fossils, shells, and gems. Using extreme macro techniques, each final image is a combination of tens of thousands of photos stitched together to create one large…
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Photographer And His Wife Plant 2 Million Trees In 20 Years To Restore A Destroyed Forest And Even The Animals Have Returned
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, 129 million hectares of forest, an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa, have been lost from the Earth forever since 1990. An area roughly the size of the country of Panama is being lost each and every year. With some 15 percent of all…
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The Stunning Cherry Blossoms and Nemophila Flowers Bloom in Japan
Hundreds of thousands of people visit Japan each year. And thousands of them visit for the Cherry Blossoms. Not just for the Cherry Blossoms, but they are an absolute sight to behold. Japanese photographer Puraten10 recently showcased this fact when he posted a series of landscape shots featuring cherry blossom (aka sakura) trees blooming next to…
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Photographer Discovers That There’s A Type Of Bee That Falls Asleep In Flowers And It’s As Cute As It Sounds
We need bees. They’re the world’s most important pollinator of food crops. In fact, it is estimated that one third of the food that we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees. But as much as we are used to seeing them buzzing with work, they need their beauty sleep as well. Recently,…
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Adorable “Leaf Sheep” Sea Slugs Look like Cartoon Lambs
It’s a sheep! It’s a cow! No, it’s Costasiella kuroshimae (or ‘Leaf Sheep’ for short). This adorable little sea slug, whose beady eyes and cute feelers make it look like a cartoon sheep, feeds on algae – just like the real thing! What’s fascinating about the tiny ‘leaf sheep,’ which can grow up to 5mm…
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Asian Supermarkets Go Back To Using Leaves Instead Of Plastic
It should be one of the main goals in today’s society to reduce plastic consumption and to educate people on the environmental and global changes and problems that we are currently facing. Even though many of us believe that recycling will solve the problem, and continue using plastic, it is actually the complete opposite. In…
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The Most Interesting And Unusual Things People Found On The Beach
The oceans are vast and mysterious, covering 71% of our planet and containing all kinds of things that we have yet to discover, despite our best efforts to explore the deepest depths. Because not many of us will ever get the opportunity to hitch a ride in a Submersible, the best place to discover some…
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These Spectacular Night Sky Petunias Look Like They Hold the Galaxy in Their Petals
In recent years, there's been a big trend in the gardening world to purchase plants that are multi purpose (eg: grafted fruit trees that fruit several different types of fruit on the same tree) or downright beautiful. One such example of this latter category is the Night Sky Petunia, which has an iridescent purple bloom…
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Photo Series Documents The Times Nature Made Us Say “NOPE” (WARNING: This List Is Not For Sensitive People)
Most of the time, we feature nature’s finest. Why? Because it’s beautiful. But what about the dark side? It exists too, doesn’t it? To prove our point, we’ve compiled a list of photos that should send shivers down your spine. Or at least make you say a loud “NOPE.” From half-dead spiders covered in fungus…
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80-Year-Old Man Hasn’t Watered This Sealed Bottle Garden Since 1972 And It’s Still Alive
In a beautiful example of a closed but functional ecosystem, David Latimer has grown a garden sealed inside a giant glass bottle that he has only opened once since he started it almost 60 years ago. Latimer planted the terrarium garden on Easter Sunday in 1960. He placed some compost and a quarter pint of…