A leading researcher dishes the dirt on potentially sustainable agriculture for a growing global population More than 9 billion people will live on Earth by 2050. They’ll need to eat somehow, but we’re already running out of arable land. And many types of agriculture — including conventional farming of annual crops, which need to be replanted each year — leave fields … [Read more...] about Digging Deep: How to Feed the World With Perennial Food Crops
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Fantastic ‘Virgin’ Pool Never Seen by Humans Found Deep in New Mexico Cave
In New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 700 feet below the surface, is a miraculous pool that has only recently been discovered. The world's largest and most well-known cave, Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico, is where the seemingly "virgin" cave pool was discovered. However, this strange discovery was made 213 meters below the cave's entrance, which also happens to … [Read more...] about Fantastic ‘Virgin’ Pool Never Seen by Humans Found Deep in New Mexico Cave
Moose Rescued By Two 70-Year-Old Men After Being Stuck In A Deep Mud Pit
A helpless moose was given a second chance at life after being rescued by a pair of 70-year-old men, now being hailed as heroes. The distressed was trapped deep in a mud pit and unable to move in the wilds of Timmins, Ontario. “I was at home and I got a call from a buddy saying he’s in the bush taking soil samples and he’s found a moose 20 feet from the road,” said … [Read more...] about Moose Rescued By Two 70-Year-Old Men After Being Stuck In A Deep Mud Pit
A Russian Fisherman Posts Terrifying Deep Sea Creatures on Twitter, and People Want Him to Stop
Roman Fedortsov, a Russian fisherman, has loaded his Twitter account with photographs of the most strange deep-sea species imaginable. The man behind the camera works on a fishing trawler in Murmansk (in Russia's far northwest) and uses his phone to film the terrifying creatures that get caught in the nets. Some say the weird fish seem like something out of a horror film. … [Read more...] about A Russian Fisherman Posts Terrifying Deep Sea Creatures on Twitter, and People Want Him to Stop
Phantom of the Deep Sea Captured on Camera for the First Time
The unusual-looking and extremely elusive ghost shark dwells in the darkness of the deep sea, rarely revealing itself – just like a phantom, or ghost. But now we finally have it on camera. The rarely seen abyssal ghost shark (Hydrolagus trolli) is, as its name suggests, a ghost-like deep sea fish in the genus Chimaera that can be found in most of the world’s oceans. … [Read more...] about Phantom of the Deep Sea Captured on Camera for the First Time