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Ancient Japanese people revealed a pruning technique that provides sustainability in the forests during timbering. This method is called “daisugi”. It prunes the trees in a specific way that allows new trees to emerge from the cut ones.

The Canal of Corinth was established in 1893. Flowing in the midst of the Saronic Gulf and Corinth Gulf, thanks to the canal, the marine vessels gain much time. It offers a relatively shorter path through the west of Athens and the port of Piraeus, the biggest and most strategic port of Greece.

The Atacama Desert, the World's driest non-polar desert, was hit by Hurricane Patricia, the world's most powerful hurricane, in 2015. But this hurricane led to a miracle and revived the flowers in the desert. Also it has never bloomed so much before. As a result, these wonderful pink landscapes appeared.

The “crown shyness” is a natural phenomenon that the uppermost branches of tree species avoid touching one another in a forest canopy. In order to explain why it may be that trees are attempting to protect themselves from rubbing against one another’s branches in the wind, many hypotheses have been presented by academicians up to date. The most common theory is that trees form a structure in this way to optimize light exposure for photosynthesis. Keep scrolling down to see more of the fascinating “crown shyness” photos!

We officially find the most captivating treehouse design you have ever seen! Japanese design studio Nendo decided to design an environmentally-friendly treehouse. In Komoro City forest in Japan’s mountainous Nagano Prefecture, there is a giant treehouse, or we should say the first bird apartment! Because this particular treehouse has seventy-eight tiny birdhouses and a private human-size space where one person can peep at birds from inside the treehouse. We hope that this wonder of design will soon become widespread in all forests around the world!

This mountain-top halo might be the most magical scenery resembling a rainbow that I’ve ever seen. Imagine that you’re a hiker, and you’re on a mountain. All of a sudden, there appears to be a portal or a gate to another dimension on earth, what would your reaction be? That’s what happened to Adrian Conchie, who is 39-year old. Let’s see what he has done.

Plants have many protective and healing benefits for people. One benefit is their purifying effect. They can protect people from toxins, chemicals, harmful odors, smoke, and radiation. Experts suggest at least one plant for every 75 square feet of area at home. Here are 4 plants you may want to have at hour home.

Jasmines have beautiful fragrance and have positive influence on the body. Its calming effect on body and psychology is as effective as some medications. According to some tests conducted on mice labs by German Specialists, Jasmine aroma is able to enhance mindset and improves the quality of rest.

The color magenta does not actually exist. It doesn’t have a specific place in the light spectrum and it doesn’t have wavelength either. When we only see red and blue in the absence of green, our brain creates a new color that we call magenta. So the real name of magenta can actually be “the absence of green”.

The oldest tree which had been alive since the times before the Egyptians pyramids were built was cut down in 1964. A bristlecone pine named as Prometheus was located in Nevada. A geography student, Donald Currey who took permission to take a few samples from bristlecone pines in the area found this very old tree which may be more than 4000 years old and cut it.

Among various types of apples, the black diamond apple may be the most striking and the rarest one. The apple looks like the ones in tales.

The photo you see in the picture is considered to be the cleanest water in the world. Admit it when you first looked at the picture, you thought the boat was in the air, right?

Human being cause serious damage and impact on earth and nature, the worst example is the usage of plastic. This environmental enemy is used in every field from bottles of water, straws to plastic bags and disposable cutlery which results in pollution in seas, oceans and soil of earth we live in. A change in the linear economy into a circular one is vital to reduce usage of plastic waste in every-day life. Finally, there are some firms making moves.

71% of world consists of water. However, world being a watery place isn’t enough for everyone to be able to access drinking water, which is what about 785 million people are lack of. 96.5% of the water sources of our planet is from the oceans which is saline water and the kind that humans can’t drink. To satisfy our drinking water needs, there are rivers, lakes and groundwater.

A botanist in Australia encountered a rainbow eucalyptus tree which was a tree he has never seen before. The tree was so colorful that he thought someone painted it but not short after that, he realized it was Mother Nature’s work.

It may be sounding impossible to see snow falling in a desert, but it’s not. The Sahara Desert, which is the biggest hot desert around the world (yes, Arctic and Antartica are counted as deserts) doesn’t receive much rain, rather it’s large, hot and dry. The Sahara Desert occupies a place above 3 million square miles in the north of Africa.

Walking around a tree can create a person a healing, regenerating and calming effect which could be felt more and more amongst the areas where trees are gathered; the forests. Suzanne Simard, an ecologist, says that there are many things happening in the forests that we’re not aware of and that they have an interconnected and complicated social connection which is sourced from underground. "A universe of endless, biological pathways that link trees and enable them to interact, and enable the forest to act as though it were a single organism."

Plastics are posing serious danger for our world by causing pollution on soil and seas. Not only it pollutes the world, but also it lasts so long for plastic to be biodegraded. Some people with awareness tried to clean stuff by themselves but it was not sufficient.

Anyone who loves seeing natural beauties will adore seeing this stunning view on a Siberian mountain. A photographer from the area named Svetlana Kazina, who is living in the Altai Mountains, had the honour of capturing those amazing clouds on her camera. Svetlana said that clouds that she caught were looking alike laces because of being so thin. Svetlana Kazina took those stunning photographs of the shining sky on Belukha mountain which is Siberia’s highest mountain (4,506 metres/14,783ft).

Sequoia trees are known for their age and huge sizes. One 3200 years old tree in Nevada National Park named as “The president” may be one of the fastest growing tree ever. Despite its old age, this tree has a faster rate of growing when compared to younger trees.