The Lake of Continuously Boiling Lava
	This is like a wound that never gets closed. In one of the hottest spots of the Earth, in the desert of northern Ethiopia, where even in the winter temperatures vary between 40 to 50oC, the volcano Erta Ale was discovered by the Europeans in 1906. The volcano is active for hundreds of years. Most volcanoes manifest through occasional eruptions, then their lava hardens, like a crust on a wound. But the wound of Erta Ales does ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Largest Lake of Acid on Earth
	Indonesia is famous for hosting some of the world's most powerful volcanoes. Krakatoa, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, is well known because of its 1883 eruption, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard even in the Australian city of Perth (approx. 1930 miles or 3100km), or the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius (approx. 3000 miles or 4800 km). 36 ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 09:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Panama Canal: Past and Future
	This is the second canal in the world after the Suez Canal (161 km or 100 mi), having a length of 81.3 km (51 mi). The Panama Canal is located on the territory of the state with the same name, connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (via Caribbean Sea). The idea of digging a canal to cut short the maritime routes between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans emerged for the first time in the 16th century, after the discovery of t ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 10:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Deepest Lake in US: Crater Lake
	This is an unique and wild landscape, characterized by chaotic rocks, sharp volcanic cones and coniferous forests surrounding the highest lake in the Cascades Mountains, the deepest lake in US (589 m or 1,963 ft) and the seventh in the world: Crater Lake. It is located in southern Oregon, in a volcanic region. The lake occupies an area of 5,438 hectares (21 square mi), having a diameter of 10 km (6 mi) and being located at an ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dry Lake Bed Found on Mars
	It's no secret now, Mars is thought to have been much hotter in its past, basically meaning that it could also have had liquid water on its surface at some point in time. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express routinely return evidence of what seems to be gullies or lake beds possibly created by the erosive action of water. The HiRISE camera equipping the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals new i ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Killer Lake: It Can Explode!
	On the night of August 21st, 1986, 80 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide (1.6 million tonnes of CO2) burst from the water of the volcanic Lake Nyos, killing by asphyxiation 1,700 persons and 3,600 livestock. The 50 m (166 ft) tall jet was made of gas (90%) and water. The gas had accumulated in the depths of the lake, coming from the magma below, dissolved in the water due to the high pressure exerted at 100-200 m (330-660 ft) ... [read more >>]
	23 February 2008, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

6 Things About Dayaks, the Fearsome Head-Hunters
	1.The populations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and other parts of the southeastern Asia are called Malayan. These people originated in a migration of Mongoloid tribes coming from Taiwan. They first entered Philippines and from there colonized the whole Pacific and Indonesia. But before the Austronesian migration, the whole southeastern Asia was inhabited by Black people belonging to the so-called Black Asian race, now surviving in N ... [read more >>]
	23 February 2008, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Was the Universal Deluge?
	The Bible tells us about the universal deluge, whose unique survivors were Noah and his arch in which he had loaded a pair of each animal species of the Earth. After 150 years of drifting, Noah landed on the Mount Ararat and life turned back to normal. The echoes of catastrophic deluges were found in many civilizations. The ancient Greeks described three deluges: one during the time of Ogyges, other one during the time of Deukalion and the ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Titicaca: A Lake of Records
	Lake Titicaca is located at an altitude of 3,812 m (12,700 ft) in the Altiplano, a high altitude plateau in the central Andes, about 72 km (44 miles) west of La Paz, Bolivia. The lake is located at the border between Peru and Bolivia and its name means "The lake of the puma" in the Aymara language. It has a surface of 8,290 square km (3,300 square mi) and a depth of 370 m (1,230 ft). This is the largest altitude lak ... [read more >>]
	16 February 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

It's Raining Methane on Titan!
	New observations with the Cassini orbiter show that Saturn's moon Titan contains large quantities of hydrocarbon liquid, about a few hundred times more than the natural reserves found here on Earth. Hydrocarbon gas condenses into Titan's dense atmosphere, then it is raining down on its surface much in the same way water rain falls on our planet, and the liquid is collected in vast deposits to form lakes and dunes of nat ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

20 Things About Water
	1.About 97% of the water is found in the oceans and seas, 2% in glaciers and ice caps, 0.6% in the table water and 0.02% in rivers and lakes. Water vapors found in the atmosphere and forming the clouds represent 0.001%. Annual rainfall and snowfall on Earth is of 113,000 million cubic meters. This would satisfy human needs, if they fell uniformly. Snowfall and winter rainfall are extremely important for maintaining the level of the water t ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Many Types of Lakes Do You Know?
	Lakes are classified depending on how they formed and on the quality of the water (freshwater or saltwater). Only in the saltiest lakes there is no life. Lakes contain 4 times more freshwater than the rivers, but, if they are not continuously supplied with freshwater, they can disappear through dessication or accumulation of sediments. 1.Tectonic lakes. The movements of the Earth's crust formed the largest lake, the Casp ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 08:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

6 Amazing Facts About Hippopotamuses
	1. The closest relatives of the hippopotamus are ...the whales and dolphins! 2-3 million years ago, there were numerous species of hippopotamus, including outside mainland Africa in Europe (UK included), Asia (plus Sri Lanka), and Madagascar. Hippopotamus gorgops, which inhabited deeper waters than the current species, lived 120,000 years ago in the UK. 10,000 years ago, in Cyprus, Crete, Malta and Sicily lived dwarf species of hipp ... [read more >>]
	24 November 2007, 10:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The African Venice: Ganvie
	Venice is not something unique to Europe. There are Asian Venices, and even an African one: Ganvie. This is a tourist attraction not just for the westerners but also for the Africans. Ganvie is a 15,000 inhabitants village, built on pillars over the waters of the lake Nokoue, at north of Cotonou, Benin. In Ganvie there are no bicycles, cars, sidewalks or streets. If a local wants to go to the school, market, dispensary, home or to [ADM ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Has the Tunguska Meteorite Been Found?
	On June 30, 1908, the biggest space impact that Earth suffered in modern times, known as the Tunguska event, took place in a remote Siberian area, destroying more than 2,000 sq km (770 square mi) of forest near the Tunguska River (central Siberia). The ball of fire that could have been a comet or asteroid, blasted about 6 mi (10 km) off the ground in the atmosphere with a power similar to 1,000 Hiroshima bomb explosions (20 millions tones ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Till 2014 the Panama Canal Will Be Double
	The Panama Canal has been facing a capacity shortage due to the size of the new cargo ships. The third shipping lane added to the canal will be ready by 2014, 100 years later after the opening of the 51 mi (82 km) long canal, opening the era of the post-Panamax ships. Panamax is a maritime shipping standard describing the ships that can fit through the canal's current locks. But with the boom of the commercial exchange between Asia an ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scientists Have Detected the Possible Place of the Tunguska Impact
	The biggest space impact suffered by Earth in modern times is the Tunguska event, when an impact put down more than 2,000 sq km of forest near the Tunguska River (Siberia) on 30 June 1908. It could have been a comet or asteroid blasting in the atmosphere with a power similar to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs explosions (20 millions tones of TNT). Now, a University of Bologna team claims that a lake – located 8 km (5 mi) north-north-west of the ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did the Arctic Ocean Emerge?
	It has been found that the frozen ocean of the North (for how long could it be still named so?) has its origins in ... a lake. 20 million years ago, what is now the Arctic Ocean was just a very large lake, whose fresh water flew southwards through a narrow strait into the Atlantic. But 18.2 million years ago, the tectonic plates started to move and the strait started to get larger. Slowly, during probably 750,000 years, salt water from ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hundreds of Big Lakes Under the 2 Miles (3 Km) Thick Antarctic Ice Sheet
	This represents one of the "last unexplored places on Earth": a unique system of lakes buried thousands of meters under the Antarctic ice sheet. The recently discovered lakes have been cut off from the outside world for millions of years. Now, scientists are preoccupied to "ensure that the environmental management of subglacial environments is held to the highest standards." Before any efforts are made t ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2007, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Geographic Records of the Water
	Water is the blood of planet Earth and its circuit maintains it alive. And this cycle implies rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. Here are some of their records. The largest running water in the world is the Amazon river. Each second, this enormous river disgorges 150,000 cubic meters of water into the Atlantic Ocean (3,120 cubic km annually). Amazon is also the longest river in the world (4,195 mi or 6,750 km), 50 mi (80 km) longer th ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 07:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia