Category: Nature

Summers in central Texas can be a struggle between being really hot and being really just too damn hot. Relief is wherever you can find it — your air-conditioned car, your air-conditioned office or an ice-cold Lone Star or three. For some cold-blooded Texans, though — and even some adventure-seeking outsiders — relief from the…

Today, Lake Merritt is known as the Crown Jewel of Oakland, but it used to be called by a different name: the Lake of 1,000 Smells. To figure how to make it a swimming lake, it’d be good to know how it became un-swimmable in the first place.

Wearing just a Speedo, an extreme swimmer on Tuesday braved a dip with sharks in an effort to raise awareness of ocean conservation. Justin Coetzee faced one of the world’s most feared predators when he, along with shark handlers, made the daring dive at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, for which he is…

The stunning waters off the island of Jamaica are threatened by invasive venomous lionfish. Fortunately for the coastal ecosystem, local fisherman and chefs have teamed up to eliminate the lionfish, one delicious fillet at a time. Watch this video on YouTube

Learn the mysterious secret behind Jacob’s Well in Wimberly, Texas. Find out why some are weary of this spot that is visited by numerous people each year. Watch this video on YouTube

It looks like the lyre bird and its futuristic laser sounds might finally have a challenger: the dwarf minke whale. These lesser-known leviathans might not have vocal chords, but they somehow manage to produce a blaster-like “da-da-da-daaaang”, aptly known as the “Star Wars sound”. See Earth Touch News Whale sounds like a lightsaber #GreatBarrierReef Listen to the first ever…

Shark swims between daughter and Father. This was our first day testing out our new Go Pro camera! Watch this video on YouTube

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This weekend, two Russian explorers, Maxim Astakhov and Alexander Gubin, have set a new world record for deepest ice dive as part of their work with the Russian Geographical Society. The two men descended 102 meters (335 feet) during an 80-minute dive in the White Sea, just outside the Arctic Circle, as part of the…