Cloud forests are usually found in the tropical or subtropical regions such as South Africa, Indonesia and South America. They are also found in temperate regions such as Japan and Pakistan. The clouds cover up to the middle level of these forests and persist there. The forests are dark due to low infiltration of light…
Located on the Alaskan island of Unimak, Mount Shishaldin is the highest mountain in the Aleutian Islands. The snow clad mountain was formed 10,000 years ago after a volcanic eruption. It is conical in shape, which is more symmetric than Mount Fuji of Japan.
The sea is rough in Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. This is probably because of the difference in the depth of waters. The waters near the shores are a few hundred metres deep while the waters in the sea…
In one particular island named Sindal Bet in the Rann of Kutch of Gujarat, the flamingoes arrive to nest and breed. Owing to its special ecological features, it is one of the largest breeding ground for flamingoes in India.
Lake Volta has been created by the Akosombo Dam over the Volta River in Ghana. It has a surface area of about 8,502 km² (3,275 square miles), making it the largest reservoir in the world by surface area. It is the fourth largest in the world in terms of the volume of water it contains….
Researchers have found that periodic jumps generated in the earth’s core change the length of a day every 5.9 years on our planet. They found that variations in the length of the day over periods of between one and ten years are caused by processes in the Earth’s core. The Earth rotates once per day,…
