nationalgeographicdaily:

Ocean Air Bubble
Photo: Mark Tipple

An air bubble ascending from the ocean floor contorts and twists into a semicircle as a wave breaks in the background. Captured as part of the Underwater Project.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Hang En Cave, Vietnam
Photo: Carsten Peter

Going underground, expedition members enter Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River. Dwindling to a series of ponds during the dry months, the river can rise almost 300 feet (91 meters) during the flood season, covering the rocks where cavers stand.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Tundra Trek, Svalbard
Photo: June Jacobsen

Brilliant day for a hike on the Arctic tundra, surprisingly alive with flora, as well as reindeer and arctic fox. It seems the mountains make their own weather on Svalbard, or at least cloud formations - this one no exception.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Stratus Clouds, Greenland
Photo: Bryan and Cherry Alexander

Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds - churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds - and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Owyhee River, Idaho
Photo: Michael Melford

120 miles protected in Oregon since 1984 and 67.2 more since 1988; 171.1 miles protected in Idaho since 2009

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Ivanhoe Reservoir, Los Angeles
Photo: Gerd Ludwig

in 2007, high levels of bromate - a carcinogen formed when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight - were found in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Today three million black plastic balls help deflect UV rays.

magicalnaturetour:

African Flower Mantid, macro photo by Bob Jensen :)

twothunderbirds:

Baby Malamutes (by Devilstar)

allthingseurope:

Aerial view of Château de Chenonceau, France  (by Baloulumix)

thecravinglife:

Some fishing stories are a little hard to believe, But this guy has pictures to prove his story…

Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly toward his boat.
“Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that the young bucks were distressed.

I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my years fishing, I’ve never seen anything quite like it!

“Once on-board, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering. We headed for Taku Harbour. Once we reached the dock, the first 
buck that we had been pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say ‘thank you’ and disappeared into the forest.”

After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help (that’s him in the wheelbarrow).

My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck to its feet. We didn’t know how long they had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive. My daughter later told me that the experience was something that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!”

From: Second Chance Ranch