This Indian Lake Has Turned Pink... Satellites Have Recorded Change
In June 2020, Lake Lonar suddenly changed its appearance.
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United States Yellowstone
The colors of this burning source are partly alive.
Grand Prismatic Spring houses microscopic communities adapted to heat.
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United States Arizona
These trunks look sawn... but they broke like glass
Arizona’s petrified forest retains trees that have become mostly quartz.
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Romania Near Mangalia
In Movile, the first link of the meal is without sun
A cave houses a food network fed by chemistry.
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Mexico Chihuahua
Under Naica, the crystals have exceeded the size of men
The gigantism of these gypsum crystals is based on slow growth.
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He explores a canyon and discovers a tree unknown to science.
Wollemi pine, discovered in 1994.
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This plant seems to carry a bunch of leaves... yet it only makes two main ones.
Welwitschia spends her life in the desert.
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This forest seems filled with different trees... DNA tells another story
Pando, the great aspen clone of Utah.
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On this giant tree, not all leaves do the same work
Coastal redwood also absorbs water through its foliage.
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Why does this palm make such a huge seed?
The coco de mer poses a question of evolution.
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This plant is waiting for a second signal before closing its trap
The dionea keeps a short trace of the first contact.
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Under the sea, these meadows can also produce flowers
Seagrass beds are not carpets of algae.
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This cave sometimes blows out... then seems to take back its air
At Wind Cave, the wind follows an invisible difference.
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Who cut this stone tower into huge columns?
Devils Tower keeps track of a cooling.
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Cameroon Lake Nyos
This lake has released a deadly cloud without flowing lava
In 1986, the danger came from a gas accumulated in deep waters.
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Three kilometers underground, the rock is not necessarily a living desert
Mining has revealed a world that daylight never reaches.
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Can a volcano make its own storm?
The flashes of an eruptive plume are not necessarily those of a thunderstorm that happened by chance.
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United States University of Missouri
This plant has no ears... but the vibrations of a caterpillar change its response
An experience separates the bite from the vibration it produces.
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Earth's atmosphere
This cloud contains hundreds of tons of water... why does it hold in the air?
Its apparent lightness hides a question of droplets and movement.
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Earth's atmosphere
Can the air of a flash be warmer than the surface of the Sun?
The flash lasts very little. The upheaval it causes in the air is considerable.
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United States Great Basin
These trees lived four thousand years ago... what do their trunks tell us?
A knotty pine can be much more than a silent witness.
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Who moves the stones of Death Valley?
In the Valley of Death, furrows have long betrayed movements without witnesses.
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Who grows these strange ice hair on the wood?
On some dead branches, the ice grows in filaments of surprising finesse.
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Why does this Antarctic glacier seem to bleed?
In Antarctica, a red flow owes its color to a transformation of matter.
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