Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotions a photographer experienced when clicking the shot button. Taking excellent pictures is damn hard...

You’ve always hear of carnivorous animals, but what about plants? Sure, you may have seen the movies depicting an orchid snatching up a small human, but there’s more truth to it than just Hollywood. There really are plants that eat animals. The most popular carnivorous plant is a Venus Fly Trap....

Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and...

West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China) West Lake is located in the western area of Hangzhou City’s center. There are dozens of lakes called West Lake worldwide, but “West Lake” usually refers to the Hangzhou West Lake. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with an...

Ningaloo Reef (Australia) Off the west coast of Western Australia, this 260km long reef is one of the major reef systems of the world. Over 200 types of coral grow here, supporting more than 500 species of fish. Pendjari National Park (Benin, an extension of W National Park of Niger) The Pendjari...

Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets. It is sometimes referred to as the World, the Blue Planet, or by its Latin name, Terra. Home to...

A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, there is always a full moon the night of a...

Chaitén is a volcanic caldera 3 kilometres (2 mi) in diameter, 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the elongated ice-capped Michinmahuida volcano and 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile. The most recent eruptive phase of the volcano began on...

10. Lena River, Russia: 2,734 miles The Lena is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob River and the Yenisei River). It is the 10th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed. It is the greatest Russian river with...

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm (68-78 inches). The monsoon trough, alternatively known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating the climatic conditions necessary for...