This September 2010 photo provided by Andrew Nosal shows leopard sharks at La Jolla Shores Beach in La Jolla, Calif. The sharks attract onlookers when they come close to shore from June to early December, peaking between August and September. (AP Photo/Andrew Nosal) LA JOLLA, Calif. — Just beyond the breakers at La Jolla Shores Beach, hundreds of dark figures cruise through the sandy shallows like a scene in a horror movie. In most cases, the sight of one shark,...

Rain Room, MoMA PS1, New York City Members of the public experience 'Rain Room,' an art installation by Random International, at the Barbican Centre in London, England. It features a field of falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected, and will be part of a MoMA PS1 exhibition in NYC. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images) For years, artists have been drawn to the beauty of nature, making it the subject of their work, as seen in everything from...

Investigators walk past wreckage from a Boeing 777 airplane that crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport July 6, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (NTSB/Twitter) Your chances of surviving an airplane crash, like the recent crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport, are surprisingly good.More than 95 percent of the airplane passengers involved in a crash survive, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).Despite this reassuring statistic, many people adopt a fatalistic attitude toward...

Spending six months in isolation in a cabin in Siberia might sound like an extreme way to get some peace and quiet, but that's just what French travel writer Sylvain Tesson set out to do in 2010. From February to July, Tesson lived in a cabin on Lake Baikal, 75 miles from the nearest village and a few hours' walk from the next neighbor, according to The Economist. "I wanted to experiment with the simple life and claim back time,"...

Officials from Death Valley National Park are urging visitors to stop frying eggs on park grounds after a video demonstration posted on the park's YouTube account went viral and inspired a hot-weather, egg-frying frenzy. As the park marked the 100th anniversary of its world record for the hottest temperature ever recorded -- 134 degrees on July 10, 1913 -- park officials posted a plea on its official Facebook pagefor visitors to leave their eggs at homeas the park has become...

A giant balloon shaped like the head of Darth Vader lifts off in Putrajaya, Malaysia on March 17, 2011. (Saeede Khan/AFP/Getty Images) A hot air balloon ride can be a beautiful experience, both going up in one to see the landscape around you, or watching them rise majestically from the ground. So why does a hot air balloon float? Archimedes' Principle states when an object is placed in water, if the weight of the object is less than that of...

The trees look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, with their furry trunks and thin magenta branches opening up into the sky like a palm tree. But Singapore's 18 supertrees are more technology than plant. Constructed of concrete, photovoltaic panels, metal, and thousands of bromeliads, ferns, and orchids, the 80-to-160-feet supertrees are brightening up Singapore's skyline and cleaning the air. The supertrees are part of an extensive project to beautify the downtown district of Marina Bay, and hopefully...

The Crystal Lagoon's pool in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Crystal Lagoons) Is it possible that the world’s largest pool could also be one of the most environmentally friendly? Chile-based company Crystal Lagoons thinks so. The company’s technology is being used for the first time for the dual purposes of recreation and water desalination in 12 lagoons that total 100 hectares of water in the middle of the desert in the Egyptian Citystars Sharm El Sheikh tourist development. “These giant crystalline lagoons,...

A model for scale, seated on the 10-foot horse constructed from driftwood. (Photo Credit: Jeffro Uitto, Knock on Wood) When Jeffro Uitto gets to work on a project, he's not just drawing inspiration from his surroundings -- he's also battling the elements. Uitto is an artist in Tokeland, Wash. and he relies entirely on found pieces of driftwood to build his sculptures. He creates a combination of furniture and artistic pieces, some on commission and some drawn from his own...

Bosnian photographer Adnan Bubalo captures the rolling hills of San Quirico d'Orcia in Tuscany, Italy during Oct. 2012. (Adnan Bubalo) Bosnian photographer Adnan Bubalo says “weather” and “atmospheric conditions” are two “crucial” elements to his photography, especially in his series of ethereal landscapes of Tuscany. “Atmospheric conditions, changing the quality and intensity of available light, creates the scenery,” explained Bubalo in an interview with Weather.com. Bubalo prefers shooting right before sunrise, stating that regardless of what time of year it...

Unfinished Church - Bermuda, St. George Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world take decades or even centuries to build, but sometimes the years stretch on and the buildings are never completed, leaving them vulnerable to the elements. The weather can quickly take a toll on buildings that have been left incomplete and uninhabited. "Rainfall entering the building can cause extensive water damage," said Weather.com meteorologist Christopher Dolce. "Freeze and thaw cycles may lead to the decay of...

Aerial view of the Caribbean Sea, 2012. (Jakob Wagner) German photographer Jakob Wagner’s series of aerials over the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Seas show breathtakingly clear views of clouds from above, despite the fact that they were captured from inside passenger planes. “In common airlines the conditions are unpredictable,” Wagner explained to Weather.com. “The windows might have little scratches or they are just too dirty from the outside to allow for good photos.” In addition to the plane’s windows, Wagner...

The Chinese city of Qingdao made the news when its beaches turned green afterspectacular amounts of algae bloomed in its coastal waters, covering 28,900 square kilometers (11,158 square miles) and driving swimmers away with the smell. On the other end of the color spectrum, at Red Beach in Panjin (about 300 miles northeast of Beijing), a unique variety of alkali-tolerant seaweed will turn from green to a vibrant crimson red in the fall, to the delight of tourists who flock...