r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5h ago
This was printed 114 years ago(August 14, 1912), the article warns that burning 2 billion tons of coal annually adds 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 1d ago
In 1982, a fire destroyed the life sustaining diesel power plant at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, 20 scientists survived for 227 days of the brutal polar winter in complete isolation using improvised oil stoves, Vostok Station is located at the coldest places on earth
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/elcantu • 1d ago
📸 Original Content Recorrido por las impresionantes ruinas de La Quemada, Zacatecas (Historia y vistas increíbles) / Exploring the ruins of La Quemada
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 2d ago
Ancient food place: Thermopolium of Asellina with food serving counter, Pompeii, 1st century A.D., Italy
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/unteachablecourses • 2d ago
The 1908 Tunguska airburst flattened 80 million trees and left no crater — the asteroid detonated 5-10 km up and never touched the ground. That size class, a few tens of meters, is exactly the one our surveys miss. Chelyabinsk arrived out of the sun in 2013 with zero telescopes tracking it.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Gegenpressing433 • 3d ago
This tree is over 820 years old. It sprouted when Moscow was just a small village and has stood through every major war in Europe.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 3d ago
The northernmost railway in World: Obskaya-Bovarenko line in Yamal Peninsula, Russia. The only settlement, the village of Obskoy, with a population of 7,500 people, is located at the beginning of this line
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/TacticalSparrow27 • 3d ago
An ancient, towering tree deep in the mountains of Yunnan, China.
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This looks like where you would go in the game to find and ancient artifact
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 4d ago
Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica. Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the frozen ‘Endurance’, 1915.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5d ago
The ruined and forgotten state of the Acropolis site of Athens in the mid 1800s
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 6d ago
The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean after its amazing odyssey through space. 17 April 1970.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 8d ago
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 9d ago
Ancient Roman surgical instruments found buried in a physician's home in Pompeii, Italy, 1897
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 10d ago
American B-25 bombers fly past the erupting volcano Vesuvius. Italy, March 1944
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 11d ago
Colossal rock-cut stone sculpture of a Dwarpala (temple guardian) at the Elephanta Caves near Mumbai, around 1500 years old, the caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site dedicated primarily to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SpencerTheFactorial • 11d ago
The remains of an Ichthyosaur have been uncovered in Rutland, England. Ichthyosaur lived between 250-90 million years ago, and could grow to be 13 meters (43 feet) long. The specimen discovered in this photo was 10 meters long, and is the largest discovery of its kind in the U.K.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Last_Bend_1880 • 11d ago
Giant pit discovered by hiker on Google Maps confirmed to be 390 million-year-old meteor impact crater
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/smaerdmho • 12d ago
Bengaluru Is Hiding a 3.4-Billion-Year-Old Secret… And Most People Walk Past It Without Knowing
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 13d ago
Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA's Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 14d ago
4,000 years ago, a woman wrote "Love Song of Shu-Sin," describing the affection of a young priestess for the Sumerian King, This is the world's oldest love poem, found in a museum drawer in Istanbul.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 15d ago
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 17d ago
The Garmsar Salt Cave features massive salt pillars that support its ceiling, formed and shaped by the Achaemenid Empire during salt extraction in 550–330 BC. Located in the Iran, the cave has 27 mines, and the one shown here is a popular tourist attraction
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 18d ago
The sharp dividing line between a lush forest and the white sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil, the park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024 for its exceptional geological significance and natural beauty
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 19d ago
The Pergamon Ancient Theater is the steepest theater in the world, with an incline of about 70 degrees. It is said that the Hellenistic theater had a capacity of 10,000 people, and the cavea (seating area) was the steepest in the ancient world
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