This is such a perfect topic for a tree lover like me. I have so many photos to choose from. I settled with these three.
The first photo was taken in my garden last week as the sun was setting.
The other two were taken in Attingham Park in February last year. They remind me of [...]
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PhotoHunt – Trees
22 Comments CherryPie on Apr 8th 2011
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Boys Will be Girls
Information provided at the Birmingham Sea Life centre explains how reproduction on a coral reef can be complicated:
Clown fish start life as males and live inside a sea anemone, together with a female clownfish. The female prevents the males from changing sex by bullying them. When she dies, the largest male changes sex [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2011
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100 Photos 68 :: The Night Sky
March 19th was the day of the “super moon” phenomenon. The moon reached is closest point to earth in nearly two decades:
A “super moon” refers to a new or full moon that occurs when the Moon is 90% or over its closest position to Earth. It is the first time since January 19, 1992, [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 21st 2011
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Nuclear Meltdown
I find the situation with regards to the damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Japan quite worrying on many levels, one of which is the playing down of the severity of the situation.
Senior officials advise that there has been ‘no significant worsening’ and other such statements to that effect. This type of statements always [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 17th 2011
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Earthquake Shifts Japanese Coastline
In the wake of the devastation that has been caused by the earthquake off the coast of Japan and the ensuing tsunami, experts have advised that Japan’s coastline may have shifted as much as 13ft to the east.
From BBC Science reporter Paul Rincon:
Japan’s coastline may have shifted by as much as 4m (13ft) to the [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Mar 15th 2011
