Atlas Obscura provided a link today to a website devoted to photographic images of the world’s oldest trees, taken by Beth Moon from San Francisco. If you love trees and the natural world, you will be amazed at these amazing trees. You can read about it and see the photos…
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The Atlantic posted a series of photos taken this week in Puerto Rico, where 450,000 homes out of 1.5 million are still without power months after Hurricane Marie. Imagine trying to live in conditions like this. Restoration of power and clean-up of all the debris will take years, and that…
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If you love to look at maps, you will be interested in this new GIS-based map of forest cover in the US. This is the latest in a string of GIS-based maps of river basins for various continents, and the author Robert Szucs has been featured for these on this blog…
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Time magazine posted an interesting photo essay recently describing changes in ice taking place around Antarctica. Climatologists know that the high latitudes (both in the Arctic and Antarctic) are the most likely places to see the impacts of changing climate because of the albedo effect, which affects how much sunlight…
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The CoCoRaHS blog posted this interesting video from National Public Radio about the sounds that ice can make in cold weather. You might enjoy watching it. You can find it at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2018/01/singing-ice.html.
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Lee Shearer of the Athens Banner-Herald has an interesting story about a new island that was created along the Georgia coast by storm surge associated with Hurricane Irma last September. According to the story, the new island formed when the storm shifted the channel of Blackbeard Creek and blew out…
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Even if we don’t see much of the white stuff in most years here in the Southeast (this year excepted), it’s always fun to look at pictures of snowflakes and dream of white yards from inside a warm house. EarthSky has posted some amazing photos of snowflakes from their readers…
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