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The Forests Where The Trees All Lean The Same Way
1+ week, 4+ day ago (828+ words) WorldAtlas In southeast Alaska, researchers worked out which way storms blew four centuries ago. They did it by noting which way the fallen trunks pointed. A forest that leans one way is a record, and what it records changes every…...
How Many Undiscovered Species Are In The Sea?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (815+ words) WorldAtlas Scientists cannot say exactly how many species remain undiscovered in the sea. Fewer than 250,000 marine species have been formally identified, while NOAA estimates that the ocean may contain 700,000 to 1 million species, excluding most microorganisms. Roughly two-thirds of those species…...
The Lakes Where Native Fish Are Making A Comeback
3+ week, 1+ day ago (810+ words) Lake Superior holds the clearest example of a restored native fish among the Great Lakes. Lake trout were once the dominant cold-water predator throughout the Great Lakes, but commercial overharvest drove their numbers down, and invasive sea lampreys accelerated their…...
The US Rivers With The Most Fish Species
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (1102+ words) One note on counting. Total species, species per river mile and species per square mile of drainage give three different winners, and all three are worth knowing. Start with the basin rather than any single river, because the basin figure…...
The Native Western Fish Making A Comeback
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1142+ words) WorldAtlas The native fish of the American West have taken a brutal beating. A century of dams, water diversions, drought, and introduced species pushed dozens of them toward oblivion, and the region's trout, chub, and salmon are among the most…...
The Rivers Where Salmon Returned After The Dams Came Down
3+ week, 4+ day ago (648+ words) These are the rivers with the clearest before-and-after records, starting with the biggest. Four dams along the California-Oregon border represent the largest dam removal project in U.S. history and the most extensive salmon restoration effort ever undertaken. Copco 2 was dismantled in…...
How Many Lakes Are Big Enough To Be Seen From Space?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1026+ words) WorldAtlas Earth has roughly 117 million lakes, and almost every one of them is invisible from orbit. To make the cut, a lake has to be big, big enough that an astronaut can spot it by eye through a window on…...
The National Parks With The Rarest Wildlife In America
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1458+ words) WorldAtlas The National Parks Conservation Association counts roughly 600 threatened and endangered species across the National Park System. A few exist inside one park and nowhere else, in populations small enough to count by hand. Seventy-seven Devils Hole pupfish were counted…...
What Happens When Two Oceans Meet
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (314+ words) Although the two water masses may initially appear separate, they are constantly interacting. Waves, tides, winds, and currents work on the boundary, gradually moving water from one side to the other. This process can take time, especially when the water…...
The State Parks Where Wild Boar Have Taken Over
3+ week, 4+ day ago (726+ words) WorldAtlas They root up meadows overnight, destroy native habitat, breed faster than almost anything can control them, and shrug off nearly every attempt to get rid of them. Feral swine, known variously as wild boar, wild hogs, and feral pigs,…...