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A man standing over a swimming hole in Victoria Falls, Zambia

A young harp seal swims gracefully through icy water in Canada's Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

A Southern Right Whale approaches Brian Skerry's assistant underwater off the Auckland Islands, New Zealand

An Asiatic lion family in India. 

Macaque mother holds her young born in Borneo rainforest, Indonesia.

Indonesia issues tsunami warning after 8.9 earthquake

Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. The US Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

Said, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued. India also issued tsunami warning for Nicobar Islands following massive earthquake off Sumatra coast.

Tremors were also felt in Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and several other cities on the eastern coast of India.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on December 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

Earth Quake in Chennai

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has been felt in many countries including India and Nepal. Tremors were felt across India including Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Bihar and Guwahati. A tsunami warning has been issued across the Indian ocean.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

Earth Quake in Chennai

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has been felt in many countries including India and Nepal. Tremors were felt across India including Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Bihar and Guwahati. A tsunami warning has been issued across the Indian ocean.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

Waterborne Diseases in Inuit Communities

As global warming triggers heavier rainfall and snowmelt in the Arctic faster reports Inuit communities in Canada, several cases of health problems attributed to the pathogens that have washed into surface water and groundwater, according to a new study.

The findings confirm past research that suggests an indigenous people throughout the world are disproportionately affected by climate change. This is because many of them live in the regions where its effects are felt first and most strongly, and they can come to closer contact with the natural environment on a daily basis. For example, missing some indigenous communities’ access to treated water because they are far away from urban areas. (See a map of the region).

"In the North, a lot of communities [Inuit] prefer to drink the brook water instead of treated water. It's just a preference, "said study lead author Sheri lee Harper, a Vanier Canada graduate scholar in epidemiology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. "Also, when they are out in the countryside and hunting or fishing, they don't have access to tap water, so they drink water brook."

Experiences of Inuit and other indigenous communities struggle to adapt to changing climate conditions can help guide humanity in the coming years as the effects of climate change are felt universally, researchers say.

"These communities are like crystal balls in order to understand what can happen when these changes start materializing over the next ten years down South, as they will for sure," said James Ford of McGill University, an expert in indigenous adaptation to climate change, change that was not involved in the study.

"Researchers often talk about how if global temperature increase by 4 degrees Celsius [8 ° F], it will be catastrophic climate change effects, Ford said," but where i am working in the Arctic, we have already seen that 4 degrees Celsius change. "

Aston One-77 Megafactories In National Geographic

Sure Aston Martin One-77 is not even a dream car for most people, with their limited production numbers and price mahoosive. However, this car is the epitome of what a British car can be hyper. It is a glorious feat of engineering. So to know the car and how it is built is a privilege for all men in the car. Now, National Geographic offers you that opportunity.

For the first time on television, latest Aston Martin production car, the One-77 will be posted on the popular National Geographic Megafactories.

Installing One-77 is in its own separate building created especially within the company's world headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Within the space of production facilities of the laboratory and distinctive in design and detail, an open plan 1,000 square meters of space m serene with its white walls and ceiling of the apartment building with four positions and a lot of specialized equipment and tools. Installation is a marked departure from a place of production of conventional cars, each car is static throughout the building, instead of progressing from one station to another.

Study shows high intelligence of the lizards

The results of a study by a group of U.S. biologists tropical lizards show share the same level of intelligence as birds and mammals.

The team from Duke University in North Carolina say their findings were "completely unexpected", according to biologist Manuel Leal, author of the study.

According to conventional scientific thinking, lizards have limited cognitive capacity compared to birds and mammals. Tropical Anolis lizard but is able to solve problems and even the skills learned to adapt to new circumstances, according to the report's findings have been published in the journal Biology Letters.

The scientists studied six Anolis lizards evermanni by making the task of locating a worm in one of the two holes. The hole that contains the worm was covered with a lid.

Four of the six lizards successfully completed the test, either by lifting the lid with the mouth or bite on the cover and then remove it. "This is a completely new way of attacking behavior," writes Brian Leal and Powell, the author of the study.

The lizards were also able to use the newly acquired strategy of opening the cover in other circumstances. When the two holes were covered with different types of tapas, lizards correctly identify the worm hole, showing that he had learned to identify the color of the lid that covered the worm.

Two of the lizards were even able to modify their newly acquired knowledge. When Leal and Powell put the worm into the hole until then had always been empty, all the lizards at first treated the wrong hole.

However, two lizards recognized the changed circumstances and found the worm in the new location.

"The ability to adapt their behavior is a sign that indicates an animal with a higher intelligence," says Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos independent.

Until now, the lizards were not among the creatures. The study authors believe the lizard Anolis learning capacity has contributed to its proliferation in the tropics.