Environment

March 18, 2016

19 Different Foods That Surprisingly Bloom Beautiful Flowers

In January, we showed you what some of your favorite foods look like growing in their natural habitats. Now, as winter melts into spring, we're looking at some of the most floral-tastic versions of common fruits and vegetables. Did you know that onions, lemons, and soybeans are all flowering plants?

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March 14, 2016

Eco-Friendly Family Is Living Inside a Giant Greenhouse for the Next Three Years

The Scholten family is raising the bar for plant lovers everywhere. In collaboration with students from Rotterdam University, the family of four (plus one dog) just moved into a giant greenhouse that doubles as a home. After applying for a spot in this experimental structure, the Scholten's were soon accepted by the program and, in 2015, they moved into their new home.

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December 16, 2015

Violet Snail Spends Whole Life Drifting on Self-Made Bubble Raft

These beautiful violet snails live appealingly peaceful lives, spending all of their time drifting along warm ocean currents in self-made bubble rafts. Meet the Janthina janthina, a marine gastropod mollusk, more commonly known as a sea snail. Typically, this little creature can be found in tropical or temperate seas, floating at the surface of the water.

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December 6, 2015

Photographer Captures Perfectly Symmetrical Kingfisher Dive After 6 Years and 720,000 Pictures

Capturing the “perfect shot” is sometimes years in the making–just ask Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen. He devoted about 4,200 hours and 720,000 exposures in order to photograph a kingfisher making a precisely symmetrical dive into its reflection on a lake. McFadyen has admired the small, colorful birds ever since he was a boy, when his grandfather would take him to see their nesting spot near Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

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