By: Robinson Meyer/The Atlantic As the consequences of climate change strike across the United States, ecologists have a guiding principle about how they think plants will respond. Cold-adapted plants will survive if they move “up”—that is, as they move further north (away from the tropics) and higher in elevation (away from the warm ground). A…
12 Eye-Opening Photos That Will Make You Think Twice About Going Swimming In The Ocean
By: Kristi Shinfuku/Shareably Swimming can seem like a fun time, especially if you’re swimming in a natural body of water with beautiful sea life. While water is truly a wonder, some people have encountered some truly horrifying organisms that will seriously make you reconsider swimming again! This photograph captures just how incredibly vast the ocean…
Low Oxygen Levels In The Ocean Could Lead To More Wildfires In The Future
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science Oxygen is just as important to life below the water as it is on land. The impact of low oxygen concentrations (anoxia) in the oceans can be disastrous, even contributing to mass extinctions in the past. Now, a team of researchers have modeled the effects of anoxic events and found that it takes the oceans at least…
South Pacific Island Uninhabited For 600 Years Is Drowning In Plastic
By: Stephen Luntz/IFL Science There truly is no Earthly escape from the waste we have unleashed into the environment. Henderson Island in the South Pacific has been found to host hundreds of pieces of plastic per square meter of beach, with even more items buried in the sand. World heritage site Henderson Island is among the…
Italian Supervolcano Is Far Closer To Erupting Than Previously Thought
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Heads up, ladies and gentlemen – the Phlegraean Fields supervolcano, known in its native Italy as Campi Flegrei, is potentially on the edge of an eruption. A brand new modeling study has concluded that the prolonged period of unrest it’s going through has pushed the volcano closer to an eruption than…
Everyday, Man Plants Trees In Same Spot. 37 Years Later, His Masterpiece Takes Our Breath Away
By: Jonathan Maes/Shareably The young teenager Jadav “Molai” Payeng decided to help nature out a little bit and started planting trees over thirty years ago. He planted the seeds next to a very and deserted sandbar closely to his birthplace in the Assam region, India. Jadav wanted to create a habitat for wildlife and oppose…
Insane Footage Shows Giant Waves Crashing Into A Cruise Ship While He Just Looks Out The Window
By: (Carlin Becker/Rare) Footage from inside of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that ran into a storm last year shows the scary moment 30-foot waves crash into the ship as a passenger looks out the window. The ship was carrying more than 4,500 guests and 1,600 crew members and was heading to Port Canaveral in Florida,…
Artist Hides Giants In The Wilds Of Copenhagen, Luring Seekers Into Nature
By: Melissa Breyer/Treehugger Part treasure hunt, part real-life Pokémon Go, the hidden giants (which are made entirely of scrap wood) can be found by treasure map or riddle poems. Danish artist Thomas Dambo is like a folk-art Michelangelo of scrap materials. And he’s always thinking outside of the box. His large-scale projects go beyond making something…
Scientists Announce That The Great Barrier Reef Is Officially “Terminal”
By: June Javelosa/Futurism The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is recognized as the biggest living structure on Earth. Unfortunately, it’s dying—with many portions facing no hope for recovery—thanks to back to back mass bleaching events. THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Why care about reefs? In a word—biodiversity. The reef is home to 3,000 varieties of mollusks,…