This ancient bridge is engineered from living trees
In Meghalaya, India, locals have to deal with heavy rainfall and frequent flash floods along the many streams that supply water to the area. And yet this forbidding environment has given rise to an architectural practice that sounds like something out of environmental science fiction: for at least a thousand years, the people of this area have been building bridges using the root systems of rubber trees.
All That Is Interesting: The Six Most Remote Places In Human Civilization
Alert, Canada
The small village of Alert lies on the tip of the Nunavut territory, in Canada, five hundred miles below the North Pole. With a year-round population of merely five people, Alert is one of the most treacherous and remote locations in the world. Surrounded by the Arctic Ocean,…
If I Go Extinct I Swear I Will Take As Many Humans With Me As I Can
The butterfly was heard screaming “YOU HEAR ME?!?!” very, very quietly.
Glass Beach
During the early 20th century residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. In 1967 the North Coast Water Quality Board closed the area completely and initiated a series of cleanups to slowly reverse decades of pollution and environmental damage. But there was one thing too costly (or perhaps impossible) to tackle: the millions of tiny glass shards churning in the surf. Over time the unrelenting ocean waves have, in a sense, cleansed the beach, turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones now known as Glass Beach. The beach is now an unofficial tourist attraction and the California State Park System has gone so far as purchasing the property and incorporating it into surrounding MacKerricher State Park.
Wow, amazing!!
Photographer snaps heavenly photo of Mt. Rainier
The weather phenomenon behind the beauty: “The skies were mostly overcast that morning, but it looks like air flowing over Mt. Rainier created some localized turbulence that opened up a small hole in the sky.
When air gets turbulent, it can rise and sink. Sinking air dries as it does so, and create holes in the clouds.”
(via KOMO News | Weather Blog)
