Harvesting latex from a rubber tree in Sri Lanka
Thousands of normally solitary wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing a rising flood.
I went whitewater rafting on the White Salmon River in Washington state this summer. Here’s some video of the 125’ tall Condit Dam on that river being intentionally breached and the subsequent draining of the reservoir behind it (the largest dam ever removed in the United States), allowing the White Salmon River to flow freely for the first time since 1913.
Not all glaciers are subject to random acts of ice calving, and to suggest anything of the sort is glacial profiling
An iceberg in Newfoundland’s Goose Cove having just floated in from Greenland
“The Northern Peninsula’s international reputation as ‘Iceberg Alley’ continues to grow as more than a dozen gargantuan blocks of ice float down from Greenland. The largest, a chunk calved from the Petermann Ice Glacier, is yet to appear around the tip of Newfoundland however it was last seen off Battle Harbor on the Southern Labrador coast, yesterday.”
Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World. Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World.
From: A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World, 1836
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My sister was allowed back into her neighborhood to examine the damage from the recent flooding of the Missouri River: this is her basement.
Argentina’s Nahuel Huapi Lake is currently covered with ash from the Puyehue Volcano eruption in Chile.
ASTER visible-infrared image of a tornado’s path near Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
“In the picture, captured just days after the storm, pink represents vegetation and aqua is the absence of vegetation. The tornado ripped up everything in its path, scouring the Earth’s surface with its terrible force. The ‘tearing up’ of vegetation makes the tornado’s track stand out as a wide swath of aqua.”
![“An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.
Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon before - but they also report that there are now less [sic] mosquitos than they would expect, given the amount of stagnant, standing water that is around.
It is thought that the mosquitos are getting caught in the spiders web thus reducing the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lilp970cUr1qz8j06o1_500.jpg)
“An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.
Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon before - but they also report that there are now less [sic] mosquitos than they would expect, given the amount of stagnant, standing water that is around.
It is thought that the mosquitos are getting caught in the spiders web thus reducing the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.”
2,200 miles of the Appalachian Trail, beginning in Georgia and ending in Mount Katahdin, Maine, shortened to five minutes of video.
Photo of the snow-covered Marin Headlands from the last time it snowed in the Bay Area (1976)
‘Meanwhile, in Japan’
Close-up picture of the exotic Queen of the Andes plant’s once-a-century bloom
