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Penguins and seals and albatross, oh my… Read the rest! OK. All silliness aside, these were some of the wildlife being examined by a crew of scientists who spent seventeen months of travel for the sole purpose of documenting the effects of global climate change on the southern ocean ecosystem.
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The best part about this footage is seeing the BBC crew’s faces up close when they all realize that a grizzly bear has just wandered up behind them. They stay surprisingly calm as the bear pokes around the water behind them, but you can see a bit of unease in… Read the rest

Watch and be confused as scientist Jem Stansfield climbs a 30ft wall using suction power from two vacuum cleaners he purchased at a popular UK grocery store chain. The BBC likens him to Peter Parker of spider man fame, but sporting gigantic sucker pads on his hands and wearing a… Read the rest

Remember lemmings? The rodents that gather to heave themselves (to almost certain doom) off cliffs? It’s a popular myth that these creatures take the leap as part of some strange, Jonestown-esque mass suicide ritual. But in truth, lemmings, which travel in packs, only jump at times of overpopulation – when… Read the rest

The Aral Sea used to be the 4th largest inland sea in the world. It supported the livelihoods of many Kazakh and Uzbek villagers by providing water for farming and fishing. In the 1960′s two rivers that fed it were diverted by the Soviets to feed cotton fields. It has… Read the rest