Every lake island is either something that was already there, something that grew, or something somebody built. Which one it is determines everything about the place. Here are fifteen.
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Sound behaves very differently in water than in air, and most of the differences are counterintuitive.
It travels roughly four to five times faster. It carries very much further. And,…
The question worth asking on any open plain is what is stopping the trees, because something is. Here are seventeen answers.
1. The Rainfall Squeeze
The basic temperate grassland occupies…
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Look at a river from the air and it does something that ought to require an explanation. Water flows downhill, downhill is a direction, and the shortest route down…
Almost nothing in the animal world does what this does.
A great many animals signal. They warn, threaten, court and call, and the signal refers to the here and now…
The test is simple: pigment colour looks the same from every angle, and structural colour changes as you move. Once you know that, a great deal of the natural world…