Nature
Facts About Desert
Deserts are places that have little water and do not rain together for nearly months and sometimes even once a year. Therefore, they are the driest place on Earth. But for the animals that live here, it is difficult for them to live for long periods of time without water, especially during the summer. So they find their own alternative ways to beat such difficult conditions of the environment.
By Ashok Kumar3 years ago in Earth
Capturing Innocence
I took this photo when I was ten, next to the pond in the back garden. There’s really not much of a story to it, at least not that I can remember. It’s been a while since I was ten. My family had just moved to a new home in the countryside of the Ards peninsula, Northern Ireland. It was a new build, so the house and garden were still barren, but the wild surrounding us was as rich as it had been for millennia. And that suited me. Minibeests twitched and twisted in the undergrowth, hares gambolled in the fields, songbirds chirped in the trees and the occasional heron flapped overhead. And at night, we saw bats and badgers. There’s no feeling like glimpsing a badger trundling through your neighbourhood.
By Blair Bailie3 years ago in Earth
How to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Save Earth, Air & Ocean.
Things to do to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint. In 1st grade, above the cubbies where we kept our snow boots and mittens, big comic-sans letters spelled out ‘remember to recycle’ and ‘last one out turns off the light.” These are the kinds of things recommended by science textbooks, blogs, and even the US Environmental Protection Agency as ways to reduce your impact on the climate. And they’re pretty easy to do.
By Sudheer Patel3 years ago in Earth
Backyard Bliss
Creatures can be found almost everywhere, even in the deserts on our planet. I live in north central Arizona, between the heat of Phoenix and wintery Flagstaff. We do not get much snow, unlike my home state of Minnesota, but as you see in the picture above, it happens now and again.
By Julie Lacksonen3 years ago in Earth
The Cows came home.
As I left work, I decided it was a good idea to wind down by taking a good long walk. Stressed as usual, walking seems to always be my destressing, go to move. As I walked down the sidewalk I looked up into the sky which was quite peaceful and quite pretty. As I walked I was thinking about my life, my future, what was my next step in life, the things we tend to typically worry about. There’s a peace I always have that seems to let me know everything is going to be alright.
By Ellie Houck3 years ago in Earth
The Matriarch. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for The Matriarch by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: The Matriarch On the vast salt plains of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, a matriarch, with her herd of elephants, is about to enter the swamps. This vast land, called “Empusel” for salty, dusty place in the language of the Maasais, Maa, sprawls at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro on the border of Kenya and Tanzania and is traditionally grazing grounds for the herds of Maasai cattle. They have, for centuries, shared this landscape with massive herds of elephants, prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, and other wild animals.
By Arati Kumar-Rao3 years ago in Earth
Milkyway Over Mangroves. Top Story - April 2021. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Milkyway Over Mangroves by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Milkyway Over Mangroves Night falls like a black hood over the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sundarbans. Straddling the border between Bangladesh and India, this beautiful forest (which is likely where it gets its name from — Sundar, meaning beautiful, ban, meaning forest) is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger, saltwater crocodiles, all manner of snakes, crustaceans, river sharks, and a few million crab-catchers, fishers, and honey hunters.
By Arati Kumar-Rao3 years ago in Earth
Majestic Manta. Top Story - April 2021. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Majestic Manta by Brian Moghari: Story Behind the Photograph: Majestic Manta I’ve spent hundreds of hours filming and photographing in our oceans, and every once in a while something truly unexpected happens. In 2019, I was filming whale sharks near Isla Mujeres Mexico for National Geographic’s first ever live VR shark experience. In this particular area, hundreds of millions of eggs from the fish known as the Little Tunny are released into the food chain, attracting whale sharks throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. This spawning alone is responsible for the world’s largest whale shark aggregation which was scientifically discovered only a decade before in 2009.
By Brian Moghari3 years ago in Earth
Thin Blue Line. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Thin Blue Line by Brian Moghari: Story Behind the Photograph: Thin Blue Line The ocean covers around 70 percent of our planet’s surface and holds over 96 percent of the Earth’s water. It is our planet’s largest ecosystem driving our weather, regulating temperature, and ultimately supporting all living organisms, but we know very little about this underwater world. More than eighty percent of this vast environment has yet to be explored by man. When I look out to the ocean and see where mountains, forests and mangroves collide with this expansive body of water it is easy to think there’s nothing more but water beyond this intersection; but beneath the surface begins a whole new world full of life just out of sight.
By Brian Moghari3 years ago in Earth