This week, we learned …
… fire, as well as ice, may have helped sink the Titanic.

Photograph courtesy Wikimedia. Public domain.
… Treepedia reveals the greenest streets on Earth.

Image courtesy MIT Senseable City Lab
Who’s the greenest of them all?
… how the world’s largest recorded wave was measured.

Photograph courtesy Commander Richard Behn, NOAA Corps
… how global consumption hurts wildlife.

Map by Daniel Moran and Keiichiro Kanemoto, “Identifying species threat hotspots from global supply chains.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0023
How far does your own consumption footprint extend?
… the dying Earth will display fascinating geology. Unfortunately, no one will be there to study it.
Earth has pretty cool geology now, actually. Learn a little about the core, mantle, and crust.
… water might exist in a new state, beyond ice, liquid, and gas.

Photograph by Michael Apel, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-2.5
Will this impact our study of Earth’s water cycle?
… how climate change is redefining botanical zones, and not everyone is unhappy about global warming.

Maps by the Arbor Day Foundation
… how LIDAR helped an ancient city emerge out of a remote rain forest, and the Indus Valley may have been home to the greatest civilization ever forgotten.

Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic
Map the Indus Valley Civilization with MapMaker Interactive.
… why ancient Pacific mariners were the NASA of their day. Pick of the week!
How did ocean geography define the cultures of the South Pacific?
… the art of the security escort.

Photograph by Pete Souza, courtesy the White House
Why are security escorts different in different countries?
… how the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics.

Photograph Peter Essick, National Geographic
The dying earth will display a fascinating geology seriously would it be fascinating? I don’t agree it would be a disaster.. No water no lives nothing is gonna survive… Maybe it’s a new discovery for science but in Quran it’s already mentioned WHATEVER IS CREATED WILL BE DESTROYED… This time our earth is able to soak water but after millions of years everything will be of metals.. Sun will be close to earth but that time our earth won’t be able to soak our water means our sweat.. Temperature of earth will be intolerable.. Be prepare for this drastic end be a good human help humanity..
Don’t know that reason for sinking of the Titanic is right or wrong the theory of that coal burning.. but whenever we think about titanic the first thought in the mind is the love story of Rose and Jack and that melodius tune and my favorite song MY HEART WILL GO ON… Rest in peace all those people who got died because of this unfortunate incident..
It’s so interesting to do new things always… Like mesuring the heights of a wave.. A former record get broken and again searching for a new one..