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Ice can be damaging or deadly, but it can also inadvertently create some of the most beautiful and fascinating winter sights. The formation of ice is subject to a million different variables, and the tiniest change in humidity, temperature or wind speed can create wildly different results. Ice is beautiful, but it can also be deadly! Black ice, which is when clear ice forms on a black road-top,

At Lost Lake in Willamette’s national park in Oregon, a strange nature phenomenon is acting out every year for as long as people can remember. At this certain time of the year, the lake is swallowed by a big hole. Where the water goes? No one really knows, The Bulletin writes. Here’s the hole that fascinates an entire world. A video of the phenomenon. The explanation is lava stre

Jani Ylinampa is a nature photographer based in Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland. He‘s a real master of capturing the dancing Northern Lights, breathtaking sunsets, beautiful forests, lakes and other wonders of nature, and he‘s been doing it for almost 15 years. One of those magical objects that caught Ylinampa‘s eye was a lovely Kotisaari island in Rovaniemi, that used to be a traditional stro

At a majestic 247 feet tall, the “President,” a giant sequoia in Nevada’s Sequoia National Park, is one of the largest trees in the world. With four large limbs — which are themselves as big as trees — and more leaves than there are people in India, the President’s huge biomass makes it the most massive tree in the world. Watch a National Geographic team go to extreme measures to captu

Roads and paths pervade our literature, poetry, artwork, linguistic expressions and music. Even photographers can’t keep their eyes (and lenses) off of a beautiful road or path, which is why we collected this list of 28 amazing photos of paths. Paths like these have a powerful grip on the human imagination – they can bring adventure, promise and change or solitude, peace and calm. There’s