dust storm swallows Phoenix.
Posted: 07/09/2011 Filed under: nature, videos | Tags: dust, phoenix, storm Leave a commentArgentina ash lake.
Posted: 06/26/2011 Filed under: nature, videos | Tags: argentina, ash, lake, volcano Leave a commentArgentina’s Lake Nahuel Huapi had the unfortunate luck of being near a volcano that is filling it up with its ashy ash ash.
via devour.com
Epson 360 degrees photo award.
Posted: 05/25/2011 Filed under: nature, photography | Tags: 360, award, Epson, panorama Leave a comment
Check it out here.
http://www.abaco-digital.es/galeria_vv.php?premio=si
go full screen!
Heinz Isler ice structures.
Posted: 04/18/2011 Filed under: architecture, art, nature | Tags: architecture, engeneering, heinz isler, snow Leave a comment
The swiss engineer started experimenting with ice just a few years afer graduating from
university.
He would hang nets, cloth, strings and balloons on trees, and support them
from below with rods. They took on their natural form through their own weight and the
wind. Sprayed with water, they iced over and formed self supporting structures. Often, a
millimeter thick layer of ice was enough to allow the supporting structure to be removed.
fight global warming. polar bears.
Posted: 04/12/2011 Filed under: life, nature, videos | Tags: global warming, polar bear 1 CommentJapan Tsunami. How it happened.
Posted: 04/02/2011 Filed under: nature, videos | Tags: disaster, japan, tsunami Leave a commentOn Friday 11 March 2011, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale triggered a tsunami that devastated parts of coastal Japan. Japan’s Tsunami: How It Happened investigates the science behind the earthquake and tsunami. The programme follows Professor of Geological Sciences Roger Bilham – who arrived in Japan days after the earthquake … To help the people of Japan please follow this link https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?5052.donation=form1&df_id=50…
Pakistan spiders flee floods in web-covered trees.
Posted: 03/30/2011 Filed under: nature | Tags: flooding, pakistan, spiders, trees, web Leave a comment
The unprecedented flooding in Pakistan in the latter half of 2010 disrupted the lives of 20 million people, but it also affected the country’s arachnid population.
With more than a fifth of the country submerged, millions of spiders climbed into trees to escape the rising floodwater. As the water has taken so long to recede, the trees quickly became covered in a coocoon of spiderwebs. The result is an eerie, alien panorama, with any vegetation covered in a thick mass of webbing.
via wired.com
Powers of Ten.
Posted: 03/25/2011 Filed under: life, nature, technology, videos | Tags: charles and ray eames, life Leave a commentPowers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.
POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (www.eamesoffice.com)
aftermath – the Japanese Tsunami.
Posted: 03/21/2011 Filed under: nature, videos | Tags: japan, tsunami Leave a comment
Images from what remains of the town of Shintona in Miyagi prefecture, one of the areas worst affected by the Tsunami.
Please read the accompanying article by reporter Jonathan Watts – guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/japan-earthquake-tsunami-miyagi-destruction
huge quake and tsunami hit Japan.
Posted: 03/11/2011 Filed under: nature | Tags: disater, japan, tsunami Leave a comment
A devastating tsunami hit the coast of northeast Japan on Friday after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, described as the worst on record in Japan.
more at http://www.nytimes.com
ps. Sharp’s new 10G LCD plant in Sakai City shut itself down automatically upon first signs of a quake. Hooray for technology.
Safety third. 