JUST 600 metres away from the Great Barrier Reef, the jewel in Australia's crown, a less spectacular but more ancient reef has been discovered. Age before beauty, when it comes to coral? (Image: Naoi/ Flickr/Getty) The first hint of its existence came in 2007, when seismic and sonar measurements revealed odd ridges and lagoons on [...]
Two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have created new maps of Chesapeake Bay forested wetlands that are about 30 percent more accurate than existing maps. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Greg McCarty and USDA Forest Service ecologist Megan Lang did this by merging two remote sensing devices: an airborne LiDAR (light detection and [...]
Ed Stafford of Leicestershire, England walks in between trees as he walks through the Amazon jungle in Brazil in this undated handout photo. Former British army captain Stafford became on Monday the first known person to walk from the origin of the Amazon river, the world's second-longest river, to its mouth, after withstanding ''50,000'' mosquito [...]
10 beautiful and fun photos of the Amazon River. If you haven’t noticed, I love water. Every time I do a post for this 10 Friday Photos series, I seem to pick something related to water or at least include a lot of pics with water in them. Perhaps that’s why Martyna decided to do [...]
Using data from the 2006 US census, this image shows all of the streets in the 48 contiguous states. It consists of 26 million individual road segments. There are no geographical features in this map, but they show up nevertheless as the roads meet, join or avoid features such as mountains, rivers, coasts and lakes [...]
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