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POPSBizarre but true facts about the Earth The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year. The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea. The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
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POPSStrange Artifacts He compiled this map from maps he had access to in the Imperial Library of Constantinople. What is the possibility that Antartica was discovered many years earlier and it was in an ice-free state?
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POPSCruz del sur de meteoritos sobre nieve antartica Unfortunately, its not always that easy. Most of the areas ANSMET goes to are near the Transantarctic Mountains, since it is those mountains which block the flow of ice to the sea and create the meteorite stranding surfaces. As a result, many of these areas have some density of wind-blown rock across their surface, and if that rock is black in color, finding the meteorites can be difficult. Can you tell which of the rocks in this image is a meteorite?
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POPSBill Cassidy in antartica "There are some hazards in polar life that are very hard to avoid. In this image Bill Cassidy endures a classic hardship- one of those pesky snotsicles." NC:l I copy/paste text from source, clipmarks on firefox didn't catch thisone
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