This Is What It Looks Like When An Oil Pipeline Bursts

Similar to the scene from Friday’s oil spill in Alberta. There was also an oil spill in Alberta.
via, common ground
The 2012 Transit of Venus

It’s happening tonight, and not again until December 10, 2117.
The Tasmanian Tiger
Extinct as of 1936.
For more extinctions in the 20th century, watch the video after the jump (sound off).
Old Men Living Alone in Nature (A Video Survey)
Here’s the naked Japanese dude on an island, the ‘Real-life Robinson Crusoe,’ and of course Fausto, the Patagonian hermit. As a bonus, we added in the man who gave up money and now lives in a cave. They all seem really happy, seriously.
Who Wouldn’t Want an Illegally Built Secret Treehouse in the Mountains of Whistler?
The HemLoft is just that.
via, tdw
Solar Flares Are So Hot Right Now
A medium-sized eruption off of the left side of the sun was captured on film Sunday.
Morning Dose of The Salton Sea
America’s Dead Sea by Jim Lo Scalzo
“Hitting bottom never felt so good.”
Brinicles: The Icy Fingers of Death
Frozen Planet premiered last night on Discovery with Alec Baldwin doing the narration.










