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Environment
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Driver Teaches Falcon To Fly Faster Via 110 Km/h Car Stunt [VIDEO]
16 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A video of a falcon flying at 110 km/h next to a car has gone viral.
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Google: “We Didn’t Harm That Donkey In Botswana During Street View Recording” [Incl. Footage]
15 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Many strange things have been seen on Google’s Street View application. Now they’ve been forced to answer about the fate of a donkey in Botswana that they may or may not have knocked over. They have of course denied knocking the donkey over.
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Shark Blamed For Decapitated Crocodile Head Washing Up On St. Lucia Beach [VIDEO]
14 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The discovery of a giant decapitated crocodile’s head on St. Lucia beach has sparked fears that a huge shark might be on the prowl.
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3,6M Python Spotted Under Plane Wing During Qantas Flight [VIDEO]
11 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Passengers on a Qantas flight over Australia got more than what they bargained for yesterday when they spotted a 3,6m-long python clinging on to one of the plane’s wings.
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Photographer Captures Incredible Human Quality To Animals [GALLERY]
10 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tim Flach is a British photographer who is known for snapping incredible human-like photographs of animals. Going far beyond taking a simple photo, Flach also captures the emotions of wild creatures through intensely close-up shots.
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Astronaut Captures Amazing Images Of Australian Bush Fires
09 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Australian fire services have issued what they’ve called “catastrophic” warnings in parts of that country as temperatures are expected to breach 45C in the days to come.
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Giant 3M Squid Captured On Film For The First Time [VIDEO]
08 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of scientists has captured the world’s first live images of a giant squid in it’s natural habitat. This is the same mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken” – a tentacled monster which was reputed to drag ships and sailors to their doom.
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MILESTONE: The First Rhino Killing Of 2013
08 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
And there it is – not 10 days into the new year, a dead, de-horned rhino has been found in the North West. Click for story.
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Bystanders Tweet Instead Of Helping Dead Lion’s Head Hiker
07 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
A hiker fell about 30m to his death yesterday after a walk up Lion’s Head went horribly wrong. Ibrahim Salie fell onto a ledge and was later declared dead on the scene.
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Deepwater Horizon Rig Owner Agrees To Record $1,4 Billion In Fines
04 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Transocean, the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $1,4 billion in various penalties.
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Stunning 3,8 Billion Pixel Photo Of Mount Everest Goes Viral [PIC]
21 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An incredible 3,8 billion pixel photo has gone viral this week. It features a shot of Mount Everest – composed out of 400 individual photographs, taken by filmmaker/five-time Everest climber David Breashears.
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Golden Eagle Tries To Snatch Toddler From Park – Seriously [VIDEO]
19 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Eagles don’t snatch toddlers, right? Wrong. Check out this crazy video, filmed in a Montreal Park.
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This Doomsday Shelter Offers Protection From Friday’s Forthcoming Apocalypse [GALLERY]
19 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With the apocalypse almost upon us, now might be a good time to take a look at the kind of bunker you should probably have invested in. This shelter (pictured above) was designed and built by L.A.-based company, Atlas Survival Shelters. Apart from their Mayan apocalypse facilities, they also provide decked out living quarters in the event of an “errant asteroid, nuclear holocaust, or walking dead”.
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This Is How They Reckon The World Will End On 21 December
14 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Haven’t you heard? We’re standing on the precipice of eternal doom. Yes, on 21 December our jig is up. And here are the top five ways doomsayers say we’ll meet our maker. 1) Earth will collide with a rogue planet. There are a bunch of those things crusing around. 2) An “alignment of planets” will cause […]
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20-Year-Old Global Warming Prediction Report Was Pretty Accurate
11 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Back in the day, before really good computer programmes, scientists had much less to go on when they made predictions about the future. Sometimes, though, relying on what they had then was basically enough.
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One Metre Tsunami Strikes North East Coast Of Japan
07 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
(File Photo: March 2011 Tsunami) Japan’s northeast coast has been struck by a 7,3 magnitude undersea earthquake, and reports are that a one metre high wave has now swept ashore. The same stretch of coastline was devastated by a tsunami in March 2011. Thousands of people perished in the wave. Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, repeatedly […]
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Kiwis Teach Dogs To Drive [VIDEO]
07 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For reasons that are not altogether clear, a group of New Zealanders have spent eight weeks teaching two abandoned dogs to drive. The ultimate tast is to have a dog drive a Mini Clubman around a track without human help.
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Cape Town Wind Strands Cruise Liner In Harbour – A Full Round Up Of Hurricane Gatiema [PICS + VIDEO]
30 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cape Town’s two-day spree of wind gusts reported to range between 50 and 120kph are the topic du jour at the moment. So much so that a name was coined for this particularly beastly South Easter on Twitter: #HurricaneGatiema. The hashtag trended in Cape Town shortly after lunch time. #hurricanegatiema is […]
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NASA Tests First Nuclear Engine For Deep-Space Exploration Since 1965 [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASA has used a small prototype of a nuclear-reactor engine design to test whether this could one day power deep-space exploration probes.
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The Seas Are Rising 60% Faster Than The UN Forecast
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We’re speaking in millimetres here, but that measurement rise is something that happens on a yearly basis. If you take say, 50 years, that does mean quite a rise in surface area that the seas cover.
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Shame, Poor Apes Also Suffer Midlife Crises
20 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists have acknowledged that it’s not just us humans that suffer from midlife crises – apes do too. Except the apes might not go out and buy a Harley, or take up golf on their own accord.
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Oh, The Army “COULD” Be Called In To Help Save The Rhinos, As Eight More Were Killed Between Friday And Sunday
20 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
Can someone tell me why it is always ‘might’ and ‘could,’ when it comes to the protection of one of our most famous and beloved wild animals? Eight more were killed between Friday and yesterday..
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Surprised Red Panda Becomes Latest Cute Animal Internet Sensation [VIDEO]
20 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Internet loves cute animals doing cute things. And the latest video making people squeal “aawwww” across the globe is no different. Its star is a baby red panda from the Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Japan.
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Beautiful Aerial Photos Of Giant Google-Funded Solar Farm [GALLERY]
15 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
These black and white photographs are beautiful to look at. The problem is that they showcase a solar energy plant that has been caught up in a green energy debate.
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Massive American Oil Find Equal To “Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves”
14 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
American drillers in Utah and Colorado are currently poking into a massive shale deposit in order to try and find a way to unlock the massive amounts of oil reserves hidden inside it. It is believed that the contents “equals the entire world’s proven oil reserves.”
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Incredible Shots Of Yesterday’s Lightning Storm In Cape Town [Photo Gallery]
13 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Local photographer and 2oceansviber, Dylan Haskin, took these shots early yesterday evening, as Cape Town witnessed an epic lightning storm. I watched it from the Safe House in Camps Bay and was hoping someone took some pics! Click through for gallery.
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Scientist Announces He Will Use A Blimp To Find Bigfoot
12 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Idaho State University professor of anatomy and anthropology, Jeffrey Meldrum, believes Bigfoot exists, and he has announced a project that will hopefully see him launch a blimp to prove his theory.
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Mozambique Establishes Africa’s Largest Coastal Marine Reserve
08 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Mozambique has just announced the creation of Africa’s largest coastal marine reserve by establishing a 10-island archipelago in a bid to protect all forms of marine life in the region.
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World’s Rarest Whale Seen In The Flesh For The First Time
06 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is one of two whales which may be the only fully-preserved specimens of its species ever seen by human kind. Spade-toothed beaked whales were first discovered in 1872 when bone fragments were found on a remote Pacific island, but until now the species has remained entirely hidden from human view. In the 140 years […]
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Venice Is Sinking [Exclusive Photo Gallery]
05 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 11 Comments
I was in Venice a couple weeks ago, as a part of that 7-day cruise I told you about. It was my first time in Venice and as a result I couldn’t comment if what I was seeing was normal or not. Turns out it wasn’t.
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