Natural Phenomena

La Tierra es más extraña de lo que alguna vez hayas imaginado. Inspirado por este hilo de Reddit.

Roughly 20 years ago, Svetlana Kazina quit her job in the city to follow her true calling -- nature. She and her two kids moved to a wooden hut in the mountain village of Uznezya in Russia's Altai Krai region, near the border with Kazakhstan. Their new home was built almost seven decades ago. It had no heating, no toilet, no running water. But it had what the city couldn't offer them. Peace and harmony.

Over a century ago, on June 30, 1908, an unearthly visitor came to our planet. A chunk of rock (or possibly ice) about 30 meters across—the size of a...

The universe is a big place filled with a ton of things hurtling their way towards our planet. One misstep and it’s lights out for all of us. Turns out there...

lightning ✿⊱╮ beautiful amazing

The United States National Park System has over 84 million acres of woods, mountains, deserts, and preserved wilderness, making it a prime place for mysterio...

This is the fifth in a series on The Utah Bucket List, a collaboration by The Salt Lake Tribune and KUED listing must-do and must-see experiences. Canyonlands National Park • Of all the adventures we set off for on The Utah Bucket List, there was only one that had me a little nervous. I don’t get along well with bicycle seats, and the idea of straddling a mountain-bike saddle for ...

From Wednesday morning - there was not a bit of word about storms in the forecast. And then this monster random storm pops up out of nowhere - with the most bizarre asperatus cloud I've ever seen. And the lightning was spectacular. The only photoshopping I did on this photo was to increase the contrast in the clouds so it looked more like what the human eye was actually seeing - photos tend to come out flatter than the real image. So this is pretty much what it looked like - lots of peeps…

Red sprites and blue jets are very high altitude upper atmospheric phenomena associated with thunderstorms. They have only recently been documented on camera. Red sprites are massive (as big as 20 km in size), but faint luminous flashes that appear directly above an active thunderstorm and coincide with powerful lightning strikes. Blue jets too are a high altitude optical phenomenon, but are different from sprites. They were first documented in 1994. Blue jets are optical ejections from the…

I want to go to there. This particular formation is an example of Undulatus asperatus--meaning "agitated waves"--which was proposed as a separate cloud classification in 2009 by... wait for it... the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. (I'm serious.)