Category: Nature
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The Most Heartwarming Responses To The Latest Viral #Trashtag Challenge
Hashtags and viral challenges usually represent funny or iconic moments in pop culture, but there is a new viral movement that has taken off whose goal isn't to entertain – but to help save the planet. 1.3 billion tonnes of household waste is generated per year and only 258 -368 million tons of it ends…
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Some Small Things You Can Do To Help Bees Survive
Bees are the backbone of the environment as we know it, helping many plant and animal species by pollinating. “More than 20,000 bee species around the world are the most important group of pollinators for farming and wild plants,” a representative from The Honeybee Conservancy said. We can thank bees for such delicious produce as potatoes,…
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Teacher’s Science Experiment Reveals the Importance of Washing Your Hands In a Disgusting Experiment
Teaching children to love science can be difficult. Getting kids to wash their hands can be even more so. Well, Tennessee-based teacher Courtney Lee Simpson has managed to do both for her class in one foul, really gross swoop. In a post that's gone viral on Facebook, Simpson showed off a neat experiment she did…
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Geologist Shares His Most Interesting Finds On Google Earth
A geologist from New Orleans named Will could put Google Earth under his hobbies, as the guy spends a lot of time exploring various areas of the map and snapping screenshots of places he found most interesting. Posting under the name geologistsmakethebedrock, this man has shared a couple of galleries with the internet people, adding…
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Is This The Most Beautiful Tree in the World?
Ashikaga Flower Park is a flower theme park located in Tochigi Prefecture’s Ashikaga City, around 80 kilometers from Tokyo. Flowers are available for viewing year-round in the park’s 92,000 square-meter area. One of the park’s particularly big draws is its wisteria flowers. The park holds over 350 wisteria trees, and it is Japan’s largest collection…
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NASA Compiles a List of the Best Air-Cleaning Plants for Your Home
Houseplants are awesome indoor air cleaners, but some of them are more effective than others at filtering out pollutants and toxic chemicals in the air. This infographic highlights the best air-filtering plants, according to a NASA study. NASA researchers set out to find the best ways to clean the air in space stations. Their Clean…
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Photographer Captures Monumental Portraits Of Ancient Trees Reveal Some Of Earth’s Oldest Living Wonders
Beth Moon has positioned herself as a sort of documentarian of baobabs. In a book titled Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time, the photographer reveals heart-stopping images of bulging plants reaching to the heavens and the horizon. Although she photographs other types of ancient trees, like sequoias and yews, her framed baobabs – trees that can…
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Artist Creates Miniature Tree Houses Meticulously Sculpted Around Potted Plants
Artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz constructs miniature treehouses wrapped around common houseplants or bonsai trees in his new sculptural series titled Somewhere Small. He relies on over a decade of commercial prop making for film and other projects to craft each structure from scratch using small bits of wood, silk fabric, miniature artworks, and semi precious…
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Celebrities Use the 10-Year Challenge to Show How Much the Planet Has Changed
If you’ve been on social media at any point in the past two weeks, you’ve probably been confronted by the latest viral craze — the 10-Year Challenge. Maybe you’ve seen your favorite celebrity flaunt their glow-up, or admired from a distance as someone you haven’t seen in, well, almost 10 years reaped the virtual benefits…
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Thousands of Photos Combined to Create on Image of a Butterfly Wing
I never thought I would be running around with a net desperately trying to capture butterflies and dragonflies. But that was exactly what I was doing two summers ago at the local golf course. Living north of San Francisco I am surrounded by natural beauty with flowing waterfalls, giant redwoods, and luscious green hillsides. However…