Recently, scientists have found evidence that the plants around us behave more like creatures rather…
Browsing: Nature
Every year when summer rolls around, people do their best to beat the heat. For…
Human civilization as we know it has only been around for 6,000 years, and we…
In a world dominated by consumerism and the accumulation of wealth, some people have decided…
Emerging from the clear blue sky often without warning, meteors have been thought to be…
It can often seem as though nations are permanent fixtures on the landscape, immovable, unchangeable,…
A problem with dying on Mount Everest is that there’s a good chance you’ll stay…
We’re typically pretty terrible to our world. We tear through resources like a hungry kid…
Venomous insects have been copied by a range of “imposters,” which may be other insects,…
Climate change skeptics might make a lot of noise, but the scientific consensus on the…
Pharmaceutical drugs are being prescribed more than ever to both humans and animals. In the…
In recent years it’s come to light that, despite China’s best efforts to the contrary,…
Like it or not, resources are finite. If we don’t use them carefully, we’ll run…
There are countless blood sucking parasites with evil agendas that can affect the human body…
Antarctica is a place of unbelievable wonder and mystery. Of the seven continents it’s the…
It’s easy to get sick of having the same weather day after day, but drastic…
Parasites may not be popular, but they are successful. Every organism has at least one…
The blistering heat that comes from a restaurant grill. That humid heat that comes after…
Trees, some of them thousands of years old, have majestically stood on the face of…
Throughout your life, you’ll learn that things just don’t always go exactly as you had…
Oceans are such vast and often overwhelming subjects. Because of their sheer scope in size,…
Most plants can’t hurt you unless you’re in The Little Shop Of Horrors, and most trees can’t kill you unless one topples over and lands on your head. But then there are the others: plants and trees from the wrong side of town. They don’t like you, and if you get too close, they will make you pay dearly.
Plants sure are nice and pretty, right? Their leafy goodness adds to the ambiance of most any room. Of course, if you pick the wrong one, the only ambiance you’ll experience will be that of a fiery, unforgiving Hellscape. Because many plants are just plain not nice. In fact, some of them are just plain nasty.
A list about lakes, really? Well, it is true that most lakes are not going to be very interesting, but these 10 lakes are sure to make you look twice and you probably don’t want to swim in any of them…probably.