Fish Swims Inside a Jellyfish in Once-in-a-Lifetime Photo
While freediving in Byron Bay off the coast of Australia, one photographer captured a photo of a fish doing what fish do best, swimming in the ocean, but with one catch: this fish was swimminginside a jellyfish. It was the photo of a lifetime. "I found a fish inside a jellyfish!" Tim Samuel wrote when he posted back in December."He was trapped in there, but controlled where the jellyfish was moving." This week, the photo went viral when shared it...
The Temperature Spiral Has an Update. It’s Not Pretty.
The temperature spiral that took the world by storm has an update. If you think the heat is on in our current climate, you ain’t seen nothing yet. To recap, University of Reading climate scientist Ed Hawkins wrecked the internet a few weeks ago with a revolutionary new way to look at global temperatures. Using a circular graph of every year’s monthly temperatures and animating it, Hawkins’ image showed planetary heat spiraling closer to the 2°C threshold in a way...
India Plans Online Sale of Holy Water From One of the World's Dirtiest Rivers
Indian men search for coins and gold in the polluted waters of the Ganga river at Sangam after the Kumbh Mela festival, in Allahabad. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images) The Indian government says it plans to sell the sacred but profusely polluted waters of the Ganges River online. While the 1,569-mile-long river is believed by most Hindus to cause the remission of sins, are dumped into the river daily, overrunning the river’s 55 treatment plants, according to the International Business Times. “I...