From Winners Of The 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year Contest, One Of 20 Photos.

Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Discovered Under Arctic Sea Ice

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on Earth.

The discovery is the result of an oceanographic expedition called ICESCAPE, or Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. The NASA-sponsored mission explored the seas along Alaska’s western and northern coasts onboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker during the summers of 2010 and 2011. The finding reveals a new consequence of the Arctic’s warming climate and provides an important clue to understanding the impacts of a changing climate and environment on the Arctic Ocean and its ecology.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: ‪http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10907

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water flower effect

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Ruup Students of Estonian Academy of Arts 

“Gigantic wooden megaphones” for the forest inhabit a clearing in Estonia's Pähni Nature Centre. They are part of an acoustic installation meant to amplify the sounds of the landscape, serve as outdoor classrooms or just provide shelter to a weary hiker.

Images Tõnu Tunnel

Pont du Gard in Nimes, 1st century AD. 

By reading, 1955, David Burliuk

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/david-burliuk/by-reading

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