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How Many Lakes Are Big Enough To Be Seen From Space?
1+ week, 4+ 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 Counties With The Most Earthquakes
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1442+ words) WorldAtlas Alaska records more large earthquakes than the other 49 states combined, and the interior census area that leads this list is slightly larger than the state of Montana. One terminology note first: Alaska has no counties, so this list uses…...
The Underground Networks That Connect Trees
1+ week, 6+ day ago (959+ words) The discovery helped inspire the "wood wide web," likening how forests are connected to the internet. Yet trees don't send messages through buried cables, and scientists disagree about what these transfers mean. The real system involves roots, microscopic fungi, and…...
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…...
The Counties Most Threatened By Wildfire
1+ week, 1+ day ago (625+ words) Exposure here is not a fringe problem. An estimated 64,951 buildings sit in a wildfire's potential path, and that equals 64.7% of every structure in El Dorado County, a share that pushes its national risk rating into the 99th percentile. When nearly two-thirds…...
The County That Sees The Most Lightning
1+ week, 3+ day ago (264+ words) A single bolt of lightning can travel for miles across the sky before it ever reaches the ground. It is essentially a giant electrical spark created inside a thunderstorm. Strong winds toss water droplets, ice crystals, and tiny bits of…...
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 Lakes That Beat Back An Invasive Species
12+ hour, 38+ min ago (333+ words) A 2014 netting survey found native salmonids recovering. Water-quality readings were similar before and after treatment, and surveys found comparable invertebrate diversity. Alaska Fish and Game now records the invasive northern pike population as successfully removed. The Indiana Department of Natural…...
The State Parks Where Wild Boar Have Taken Over
3+ week, 5+ 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,…...
The US Lakes That Will Disappear When Their Dams Come Down
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1652+ words) Yellowstone Reservoir in northeastern Utah is already entering the transition away from being a lake. The US Forest Service began the Yellowstone Reservoir Dam Removal and Restoration Project in Ashley National Forest in 2026, putting this reservoir among the most immediate…...