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Fly Geyser; Amazing Geyser Landscape in Nevada

Fly Geyser which is very much of planet earth (Nevada, US to be exact). The geyser can be found in Hualapai Valley near Gerlach. It is a little seen phenomenon as the land upon which it sits is private. It can be seen from State Road 34 but unless you have permission the view from a distance is all you should attempt. Back in 1916 the owners of the place were looking for water in the hope of creating rich farmland in this desert area of the state. They came across water, yes, and the well worked for decades. However, the drill that was driven down a shaft hit a geothermal pocket of water and the result was a geyser.

Fly Geyser; Amazing Geyser Landscape in Nevada

The Great Geysir in South Iceland. Erupts at Regular Intervals Every 10 Minutes or so and its White Column of Boiling Water Can Reach as High as 20-30 Metres

Ground water can also exit to the surface of the earth in the form of hot springs called geysers. Geyser is a hot springs that are closely related to volcanic activity.

In southern Iceland, there is the famous Geysir, The Great Geysir or Stori-Geysir. Geysir has attracted millions of visitors who come from all over the world. They came on vacation there to witness a miracle of nature there.

The Great Geysir in South Iceland. Erupts at Regular Intervals Every 10 Minutes or so and its White Column of Boiling Water Can Reach as High as 20-30 Metres

Attack of the Silkworm Feather/Caterpillars (Desiciria inclusa)

Erratic weather conditions in the country is strongly suspected as the cause of caterpillars (desiciria inclusa) which amounts to millions of tails attacked six villages in five districts Probolinggo, East Java. "It's likely, because it is caused by weather anomalies," said Head of Laboratory of Pest UB Dr Malang. Ir. Totok Hima, on Thursday (03/31/2011). He explains, caterpillars multiply rapidly in line with the bad weather continue to occur. The predators have been the enemy, not able to survive with such weather conditions.

Attack of the Silkworm Feather/Caterpillars (Desiciria inclusa)

Indahnya Taman Nasional Gunung Ciremai

Gunung Cimerai merupakan salah satu simbol Kabupaten kuningan, keberadaan gunung Ciremai selalu identik dengan keberadaan Kota kuda ini dikarenakan hampir sebagian wilayah Kabupten Kuningan berada di kaki Gunung Ciremai, bahkan sudah menjadi sumber kehidupan bagi masyarakat Kuningan yang ada di sekitar Gunung tersebut. Oleh karena itu harus tetap terjaga kelestariannya, salah satu upayanya telah ditempuh melalui perubahan fungsi Gunung Ciremai menjadi Taman Nasional sejak tahun 2004

Gunung Ciremai pastinya tidak asing dengan para pencinta alam yang sejak lama Gunung ini menjadi sarana pendakian gunung Gunung Ceremai secara administratif termasuk dalam wilayah tiga kabupaten, yakni Kabupaten Cirebon, Kabupaten Kuningan dan Kabupaten Majalengka, Provinsi Jawa Barat Posisi geografis puncaknya terletak pada 6° 53' 30" LS dan 108° 24' 00" BT, dengan ketinggian 3.078 m di atas permukaan laut.

Pohon Palem Ditengah Gurun Sahara

Ditengah panas dan gersangnya gurun sahara, ternyata pohon palm mampu tumbuh diatasnya. Ia mampu menggunakan air dengan seefektif mungkin.

Perlua nda ketahui, bahwa Gurun Sahara adalah nama sebuah padang pasir terbesar di dunia. Nama "Sahara" diambil dari bahasa Arab yang berarti "padang pasir".

Sahara terletak di utara Afrika dan berusia 2,5 juta tahun. Padang pasir ini membentang dari Samudra Atlantik ke Laut Merah. Dari Laut Tengah di utara sampai ke Sahel di sebelah selatan. Dari Mauritania di sebelah barat ke Mesir di sebelah timur. Padang pasir ini membagi benua Afrika menjadi Afrika Utara dan Afrika "yang sejatinya". Kedua bagian benua ini sangat berbeda, baik secara iklim maupun budaya. Luas padang pasir ini sekitar 9.000.000 km2. (wikipedia)

Pohon Palem Ditengah Gurun Sahara

Bukit Asam Coal Mining

Bukit Asam coal mine which is situated in Bukit Asam, Regency Tanjung Enim, South Sumatra, Indonesia. It includes the largest coal mines in Indonesia.

Coal or coal is one of fossil fuels. General understanding is a combustible sedimentary rock, formed from organic sediments, mainly remnants of plants and are formed through the process pembatubaraan. Its main elements consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Coal is also an organic rock that has the properties of the complex physics and chemistry that can be encountered in various forms.

Element analysis provides an empirical formula such as C137H97O9NS formula for bituminous and anthracite C240H90O4NS.


Activities of Sulphur Miner at Kawah Ijen

Ijen is an acidic crater lake at the top of Mount Ijen, East Java, has a height of 2368 meters above sea level with a depth of 200 meters and the area of the lake crater reached 5466 hectares. Crater in the territory of Nature Reserve Nature Trail Ijen Bondowoso, East Java.

To reach Ijen, you have to down a path along the caldera cliffs. Do not forget to bring life cover because sometimes the sulfur smoke is blown through the track. You can also surround the caldera in the region which takes eight to 10 hours to reach on foot.

There, many miners Sulfur their activities. Armed with crude equipment, they try to mine the sulfur as their livelihood. Look at how hard they Sulphur mine, please refer here on.

Activities Sulphur Miner at Kawah Ijen

Other Side of the Flood in Jakarta

Flood, is actually a phenomenon of nature "ordinary" is often the case and facing almost all countries in the world, including Indonesia. Including the sequence of flood disaster, because a large toll.

Jakarta floods in 2007 were floods that hit Jakarta and surrounding areas since February 1, 2007 night. In addition to poor drainage systems, flooding from torrential rains that started going on since the afternoon of February 1 until the next day on February 2, plus the amount of water volume that crosses 13 rivers originating from Jakarta, Bogor-Puncak-Cianjur, and sea water is tide , resulted in nearly 60% area of DKI Jakarta inundated with depths reaching to 5 feet at some point the location of flooding.

Other Side of the Flood in Jakarta

Big Lobster

Lobsters are mostly coming from the northeast coast of North America with the Canadian Maritimes and the U.S. states of Maine as the largest producer. They were captured by using lobster traps. The tool is given a bait and lowered into the seabed. These tools let the lobsters go in, but not impossible for large lobsters to exit. This tool makes a small lobster can get out so they can mecegah excessive catching lobsters.

Big Lobster

Polar Bears on Ice

Polar bears or bear ice is a large mammal in the rules of biology Ursidae family clan. He included a circumpolar species found around the northern continent of the earth, which Arctic continents and includes most carnivorous bear among other bear family. Polar bears also sometimes classified as marine mammals.

Polar Bear on Ice

The Beauty of Dayang Bunting Islands

Dayang Bunting Islands is the biggest island after Langkawi in Kedah. Located 17.6 km or roughly 15 minutes away by boat from the pier Kuah, Langkawi. Road transport is only through a speedboat which can be rented at the pier last week Kuah, Langkawi island with the content of a package of RM45.00.

This island gets the name from the story of a giant fairy named Dayang Bunting. This island resembles a giant cursory pregnant complacent. On the way to Lake Dayang Bunting, we'll see a mountain that resembles a woman was lying to the shape of the head, chest and abdomen was pregnant.

The Beauty of Dayang Bunting Islands

Offshore Oil Drilling in Natuna Islands

Drilling rig is a building with equipment to drill into underground reservoirs to water, oil, or gas, or underground mineral deposits.

Rigs drilling for oil and gas can be used not only to identify the geological properties of the reservoir but also to create a hole that allows retrieval of oil or gas content of the reservoir.

Natuna Islands, is one of regencies in Riau Islands Province, Indonesia. Natuna is the northernmost islands in the strait Karimata. In the north, bordering Natuna Vietnam and Cambodia, south of the border with South Sumatra and Jambi, in the western part of Singapore, Malaysia, Riau, and in the east with East Malaysia and West Kalimantan. Natuna is on international cruise lines Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The county is famous for producing Oil and Gas.

Offshore Oil Drilling in Natuna

Tin Miners in Bangka

Bangka Island is an island that lies east of Sumatra, Indonesia, and included in the province of Bangka-Belitung Islands. In this area of tin minerals are found, then called the Tin Islands. On the Bangka Island, tin mining is still a lot done traditionally using very simple equipment.

Tin Miners in Bangka

A strength of Ants

Ants are insects that come from a family eusosial Formisidae, and ants are included in the order Himenoptera along with bees and wasps. Ants are divided into more than 12,000 groups, with a large number of comparisons in the tropics. Ants are known to nest-nest colonies and orderly, which sometimes consist of thousands of ants per colony. Types of ants are divided into worker ants, ants, male and queen ants.

Ants are the strongest animals on earth. Although a small body, he is able to sustain the body with a load of 50 times his weight. If the complaint with a very large animals like elephants or gorillas, which can only sustain a maximum of up to three times the object of his weight.

A strength of Ants

Tomohon Flowers Festival (TFF)

Tomohon is one city in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Before the year 2003 is one of districts in Minahasa. On February 8, 2006 for the first time in Tomohon Flower Parade held to stimulate tourism and flower cultivation. Parade of these flowers by the Mayor pledged Tomohon fixed annual calendar. In June 2008 was held Tomohon Flowers Festival (TFF) as a continuation of the Flower Parade that was held February 8, 2006.

Tomohon Flowers Festival (TFF)

Hot Mud Flood In Sidoarjo, East Java

Hot Mud Flood In Sidoarjo or Lapindo Mud, it is a sprinkling of events of hot mud in the drilling of PT Lapindo Brantas in Renokenongo Village, Porong district, Sidoarjo regency, East Java, from the date of May 27, 2006. Blast of hot mud for several months caused drownwd settlement areas, agriculture, and industry in three districts in the vicinity, and also affect economic activities in East Java. Until now, the mud was still not able to stop. As a result of this incident, there are three districts in the regency of Sidoarjo drowned.

Hot Mud Flood In Sidoarjo, East Java

The Best Wallpapers Collection (Forest Theme)

The Best Wallpapers Collection (Forest Theme). For enlarge pic, please click image (new window).

The Best Wallpapers Collection (Forest Theme

Bribin; Underground Water Dam Project. First in the World

Bribin Cave is situated in Gunung Kidul area that was occupied the hilly area of more than 64% in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The first underground dam system in the world will be operated continuously for 24 hours without the cost of energy. Appointment of water from underground streams using microhydro systems. Bribin II project to increase water supply for the pipeline route Bribin Project I, which was built in 1984.

This national-scale cooperation projects involving Batan, IWK Karlsrusche University, Local Government of Yogyakarta, the local government of Gunung Kidul and some universities, such as: ITB, ITS, Pancasila, UGM, UNS and UII.

Infrastructure development projects Bribin II that started in 2005 and was stopped two years since the 2006 earthquake can be enjoyed by residents. Bribin II Water Project water demand is estimated to be sufficient for 80 000 residents of Gunung Kidul.

Bribin; Underground Water Dam Project.  First in the World

Sinkhole 60 Meters in Central City of Guatemala

Agatha storm that struck the City of Guatemala, a large hole (sinkhole) appeared in the middle of the city resulted in one fatality and several injured.

Launched the Daily Mail, Tuesday (1 / 6) mentioned a large hole has a depth of 200 feet (60 meters) where a three-story building also fell into the hole. This large hole appeared in the middle of a huge storm hit the city of Guatemala landslides that followed the current death toll reached 146 people.

Tropical storms that occurred on Sunday and caused massive floods and landslides in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Guatemala became the country most severely affected.

Sinkhole 60 Meters in Central City of Guatemala

Big Mushrooms

The general form is like an umbrella mushrooms are usually, although there also seems like the disc. This last notion relates to the economic value of fungi as food, source of poison, or the treatment material.

Big Mushrooms