Incredible facts about Amazon rainforest The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and provides 20% of Earth’s oxygen. From housing the largest biodiversity on the planet to the largest river. Here are 15 incredible facts about the Amazon rainforest. Here are a few incredible facts about the Amazon rainforest or the…
Beneath Canyons on Mars, Astronomers Find Potentially ‘Water-Rich Area the Size of the Netherlands’.A Martian orbiter located a large reserve of hydrogen in a mountainous area of the Red Planet. Located below the Red Planet’s equator, the Valles Marineris is one of the largest known series of canyons in the solar system. About a meter beneath the…
The most beautiful photos of natural wonders around the world! There are unbelievably beautiful natural wonders across the world. Photographs capture the vibrant colors of canyons, forests, and rocky shorelines. Natural wonders come in all shapes and sizes. From China’s Tianzi mountains to the Verdon Gorge in southeastern France, there are incredible places all over the…
Animals are amazing things; all of us are unique and sometimes very unusual in our behavior. At Frontier HQ, we are fascinated by all things nature, and so we have put together a list of all of the very best and most interesting and downright funny facts about animals we could find. 1. The…
The coldest continent on Earth used to be as warm as Italy. Here’s how we know. Not far from the South Pole, more than half a mile below the ocean in a region that was once covered by ice. A layer of ancient fossils tells a surprising story about the coldest continent on Earth. Today,…
The spate of furious wildfires around the world during the past decade has revealed to ecologists how much biodiversity and “pyrodiversity” go hand in hand. The rich biodiversity supported by such landscapes is the result of two opposing principles. An environment needs to be stable over a long term for a range of evolving species…
Plan your Japan vacation to coincide with the magical cherry blossom festival in Spring for a truly unique experience. The cherry blossom festival in Japan is typically witnessed around late March or early April. Marks the onset of spring and paints the landscape in exquisite tones. This is the time when cherry blossoms – called…
What are the northern lights? Nothing can ruin our joy in the aurora borealis, or northern lights, those ribbons of blue, green and violet light that cascade from the sky. Not even knowing for sure what causes them. Physicists have long speculated about what gives rise to this very specific light phenomenon that occurs in…
Forest coverage Canada’s forests cover 347 million hectares of land and make up nearly nine per cent of world’s total forest area. Canada is the third-most forest country in the world by area. With nearly 10 hectares/person, people living in Canada enjoy more forest area per person than most other countries in the world, over…
For the first time scientists have directly observed Living bacteria in polar ice and snow — an environment once considered sterile. The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth’s…
