Get ready to have your mind blown – we're diving into the world of rare natural phenomena, and trust me, it's gonna be wild! Ever heard of brinicles? These icy tentacles form underwater and look like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. They're basically like underwater icicles that creep along the ocean floor, freezing everything in their path. It's like nature's own icy magic trick! So next time you're out exploring the ocean, keep your eyes peeled – you never know what crazy phenomenon you might stumble upon. Animation is created by Bright Side.
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00:00You're walking home quite late at night.
00:03It's been raining, and now the air is fresh and damp.
00:06And that's when you see it.
00:08A rainbow!
00:09But it's nighttime.
00:11Is it even real?
00:14Well, it is.
00:15Because it's a lunar rainbow, also known as a moonbow.
00:20Moonbows are as cool as they are rare.
00:22They occur when the light gets refracted through water droplets in the air,
00:26just like it happens when a normal rainbow forms.
00:29But the source of light, in this case, is different.
00:33I'm sure you've already guessed that it's the moon.
00:36Or rather, sunlight reflected off the moon.
00:41Since moonbows are produced at night, when there's much less light,
00:45they're a lot more difficult to spot.
00:47Often, a moonbow looks like a pale white ring.
00:51That's because the light is normally so faint
00:53that the cone color receptors in human eyes can't detect the hues.
00:58Also, experts claim that how bright the colors are
01:01depends on the size of water droplets in the air.
01:04The smaller they are, the less vivid the colors.
01:09If you want to witness a moonbow, opt for a night when the moon is at its fullest.
01:13For example, during a full moon phase.
01:16The moon also has to be low in the sky and not obscured by clouds.
01:20In the U.S., you can see moonbows next to waterfalls,
01:24including Niagara Falls, as well as Yosemite National Park and other places.
01:31But you can see mesmerizing natural phenomena not only at night after the rain.
01:36For example, look at these brinicles.
01:39They are hollow icicles, also known as underwater stalactites.
01:44They form when cold salt water freezes in the right conditions.
01:48Then, brinicles can reach the ocean floor and start pulling there.
01:52They can even freeze some slow-moving underwater inhabitants, like starfish.
01:59This next phenomenon is even more dangerous than brinicles.
02:03Sinkholes occur when water that has turned acidic
02:06after coming into contact with plants or carbon dioxide
02:09erodes soft kinds of rock, like gypsum or limestone.
02:14This forms a deep underground cavern that can one day open anywhere, even under your house.
02:23One such sinkhole opened up in New York City.
02:26It pulled a parked van into the earth.
02:29It happened in the summer of 2022, and it wasn't the only sinkhole to appear in that area.
02:35Local inhabitants reported around 4,000 sinkholes all over the city.
02:40This kind of problem is also very common in Florida,
02:44and it's much more serious than it may sound.
02:47Sinkholes open all of a sudden,
02:49pulling down everything and everyone that happens to be nearby.
02:55Sinkholes appear all over the world, which makes them a global problem.
02:59They're totally unpredictable and form without warning.
03:03Another reason for their formation might be vast areas of groundwater.
03:07During droughts, this water dries up.
03:10This creates large, empty caverns.
03:12After heavy rains, the surface over such a cavern can collapse,
03:16creating a sinkhole within minutes.
03:20This phenomenon is way more beautiful and way less dangerous than sinkholes.
03:25Just look at this beach. Is it glowing?
03:28Your eyes aren't deceiving you.
03:30You can see this phenomenon all over the world.
03:33It's caused by phytoplankton in the water.
03:36It gives off light when the movements of waves and currents disturb it.
03:40This particular species of phytoplankton glows blue,
03:43turning the ocean into a gigantic lava lamp.
03:46At the same time, if you saw it during the day,
03:49you'd probably feel disgusted,
03:51because the thick visible layer of the plankton near the surface of the water
03:55doesn't look, well, nice.
04:00Waterspouts are also known as sea tornadoes.
04:03They occur over warm ocean waters.
04:06Waterspouts look like funnel-shaped clouds reaching down from the stormy skies.
04:11Most of them don't pull in water.
04:13They're rather weak rotating columns of air,
04:16hovering above the surface of the water.
04:18Some waterspouts begin as dry land tornadoes.
04:22Then they travel toward a body of water
04:24and turn into severe thunderstorms with hail, high winds, and lightning.
04:31During the summer, in forests all over the world,
04:34you might see a faint eerie glow called foxfire.
04:38It might look mystical and a bit scary,
04:41but the nature of this glow is very simple.
04:44It's produced by bioluminescent mushrooms
04:47growing on moist, rotting bark.
04:49You can find lots of these mushrooms in the tropics,
04:52where damp forests encourage their growth.
04:57To increase your chances of seeing some of those magical fungi,
05:00hunt them in the forest during the wettest season.
05:04Plus, move as far away from artificial light sources as possible.
05:08Otherwise, you won't be able to spot this faint glow.
05:11And if you find one, nope, don't do that.
05:14They're not that kind of mushroom.
05:18Hey, ever heard of a fire rainbow?
05:20Yeah, me neither.
05:22How about a circumhorizontal arc?
05:24Didn't think so, but just so you know,
05:27they're one and the same thing.
05:29At first glance, it looks like a painting,
05:31or like a rainbow-colored splash in the sky.
05:34Despite the name, they have nothing in common
05:37with either fire or rain.
05:39This phenomenon happens on rare occasions
05:42when the sun shines through a particular type of ice cloud formation.
05:47The rainbow halos are just as unique.
05:49Again, a specific type of ice crystals and clouds
05:52needs to be present for the surface of the Earth
05:55to bend light from the sun into a perfect ring.
05:59The same thing can happen with moonlight.
06:01The only difference will be that moon halos are usually white,
06:04and sun halos can be rainbow-colored.
06:08When visiting regions with high altitudes,
06:11you may be one of the lucky people to stumble upon penitentes.
06:15They're basically naturally formed ice spikes.
06:18For them to be formed, they need a really cold and elevated environment
06:22where the air is dry.
06:24The sunlight turns ice directly into vapor
06:26rather than melting it into water.
06:28And that's why these blades of snow and ice
06:31start to pop up on the surface of the Earth.
06:33As cute as they may be,
06:35they can end up as tall as 15 feet.
06:39Now, what happens when small, individual droplets of lava meet the wind?
06:44Pele's hair, basically.
06:46Let me explain.
06:47The word Pele comes from an ancient Hawaiian symbol for volcanoes.
06:51Whenever the wind picks up little drops of lava,
06:54it stretches them into hair-like strands,
06:57similar to the process of glass wire creation.
07:00These delicate strands can stretch as far as 6 feet.
07:05On rare occasions, it can rain without any clouds.
07:08But does it really?
07:10Let's look at the science behind this rare phenomenon.
07:13It's sometimes called a sun shower,
07:16just because it looks like the rain is falling straight from the sun.
07:20Let's be clear, though.
07:21There is no way rain can ever come down directly from a star.
07:25Rain clouds are at a bit of a distance from that specific location.
07:30With sun rays being angled, the clouds become out of sight.
07:34Add a little wind to blow the rain in your direction,
07:37and ta-da!
07:38You get sun showers.
07:41Located in Bolivia is a place called Salar de Uyuni.
07:45It's the largest salt flat in the world.
07:47It's also the home of half of the world's lithium,
07:50which is a crucial component for making batteries.
07:53But what else is so special about this place?
07:56Well, whenever the rain season comes,
07:58it turns this piece of flat land into a perfectly reflective mirror lake.
08:04What comes to your mind when you hear about the Blood Falls?
08:07A horror movie?
08:09Well, they are merely a series of waterfalls
08:12located in one of the driest regions of Antarctica.
08:15They emerge from an underground lake filled with a special kind of bacteria.
08:20These little organisms use sulfates as fuel instead of sugars,
08:24which makes them very intriguing for scientists.
08:27The water contained in this lake is so full of iron
08:30that it basically just rusts when it meets the air.
08:33Hence the reddish color of the waterfall,
08:36which also gives it its trademark name.
08:39Okay, we all know the song, but it's not really made up.
08:43There is actually such a thing called a desert rose.
08:46It's not a plant, though, but a unique form of the mineral gypsum.
08:50It develops in dry sandy places that can occasionally flood.
08:54This constant switching between a wet and dry environment
08:57lets the gypsum crystals emerge between grains of sand,
09:01trapping them and forming a rose-like shape.
09:05Ever heard of the Eye of Sahara?
09:07Scientists are still trying to figure out how it was formed.
09:11You can only see it if you fly above it,
09:13but it's basically a naturally formed dome
09:16that dates back to approximately 100 million years ago.
09:20And no, I wasn't around then.
09:22It has a rough diameter of 25 miles
09:25and consists of a bunch of concentric rings.
09:28The biggest one, or the central area,
09:30measures about 19 miles in diameter.
09:33Astronauts were some of the first people to notice it,
09:36and it's been studied ever since.
09:38In fact, even to this day, when landing in Florida,
09:42they know they're almost home when they see the Eye of Sahara.
09:47One of the most beautifully colored trees in the world
09:50is located in the Philippines and Indonesia.
09:53It's called the rainbow eucalyptus.
09:55It got its name because of its bark
09:57that switches colors and peels away as the tree ages.
10:01The bright green bark is the youngest,
10:03as it contains a substance called chlorophyll,
10:06usually found in leaves.
10:08It then switches to purple and then to the color red.
10:11And finally, it turns brown as it grows and loses the chlorophyll.
10:16Now, don't be tricked into thinking that's a whole forest.
10:19It's one single tree.
10:21And no, it's not some sort of optical illusion either.
10:25Let me explain.
10:26Underneath that soil, there is a complex network of roots
10:30that connects around 47,000 tree-like shapes you see above the ground.
10:35It's called the quaking aspen.
10:38Some of these trees are among the oldest and largest organisms in the world.
10:43Now, here's a good destination for all travelers.
10:46Or maybe not so good, after all.
10:48The most lightning-stricken area in the world,
10:51according to recent data released by NASA,
10:54is Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.
10:57Out of all the days in a year,
10:59300 of them feature thunderstorms in this location.
11:02What makes this area so unique, though, that storms happen so often?
11:06Well, it's because where cool mountain air meets the warm moist breeze
11:10and generates electricity over the lake.
11:13This glacier may look like someone dropped tons of red paint in the middle of Antarctica,
11:18but it's actually the natural color.
11:20Blood falls is a result of extreme salted water mixed with iron oxide,
11:25giving out this eerie vibe in the middle of nowhere.
11:29In early May 2018, New England observed one of the scariest
11:34and most dangerous phenomena ever – a super long-track tornado.
11:38The frightening natural phenomenon started not far from Charleston, New Hampshire
11:43and traveled toward the town of Webster in Merrimack County.
11:46It took the tornado 33 minutes to cover 36 miles
11:50and become the third on the list of the longest-track tornadoes in New England.
11:55In the Philippines, you can swim in some of the most crystal-clear waters
12:00and discover an underwater world below you in the province of Palawan.
12:04The municipality of Coron has white sandy beaches
12:08with many small boats riding through the many amazing sceneries.
12:12Tristan da Cunha is a small volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic
12:17with the only neighboring cities of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Cape Town, South Africa.
12:22It takes 7 days by ship to get to this unique place.
12:26If you want to escape from the rest of the world,
12:28staying with the 280 locals will make you feel like you're away from everything.
12:35During the first week of January 2018,
12:37unusually cold weather in the Northeast United States
12:41froze the Atlantic Ocean in North Thalmouth, Massachusetts.
12:44What's more, the ocean was frozen so thoroughly that people were walking on the waves.
12:49Now, that's obviously something you don't see every day.
12:53Red sand is what makes this beach unique and why tourists flock to Tianjin, China.
12:59A red-colored plant called a suede salsa dwells in the saltwater.
13:03The whole beach is covered in red with only the top layer of the sea visible.
13:09If there ever was a thing that said,
13:11I defy gravity out loud, it's the stone of Devasco in Argentina.
13:16The huge 300-ton boulder stands precariously on the edge of a cliff
13:21and rocks a little bit from side to side in the wind.
13:24People even checked it by putting glass bottles under one of its edges.
13:28They exploded with another movement of the rock.
13:31Unfortunately today, you can't see this wonder of nature as it was a century ago.
13:36In 1912, the boulder suddenly dropped from its perch,
13:39which it had occupied for literally hundreds of years.
13:43The people of the nearby town of Tandil were so sad about this event
13:47that 95 years later, in 2007, they decided to restore the stone.
13:52They made a plastic replica of the rock and put it on the same spot and even in the same position.
13:58So, even today, coming by Tandil, you can see its famous balancing boulder.
14:03More of a symbol now, of course, because it's no longer rocking and only weighs 9 tons,
14:09but instantly recognizable nonetheless.
14:13Socotra is an alien-like island off the coast of Yemen in the Indian Ocean
14:18with one of the most unique trees ever seen.
14:21It's called the Dragon Tree, and it can only be found on this amazing island.
14:26In 2008, it was labeled as a World Heritage Site.
14:30If you ever see a tight burning column of air, don't panic, it's not the end of the world!
14:36The creepy combination of whirlwind sounds and scorching inferno
14:40means that you have crossed paths with a fire tornado, also known as fire twister or fire whirl.
14:47This dangerous phenomenon occurs mostly during wildfires.
14:51These fires create a big area of super hot air just above the ground.
14:55When this scorching air gets mixed with the cooler air higher up,
14:59it results in a whirlwind that churns up burning debris and flames.
15:03The most powerful firenados can stretch hundreds of feet into the air.
15:08The House of Mystery in Gold Hill, Oregon amazes its visitors with gravity-defying effects.
15:14You can't stand straight there, always leaning to the side and having to hold on to something for balance.
15:20Balls roll upwards.
15:22There's also a broom that stands perfectly still wherever you put it,
15:26unlike virtually everything else in the shack.
15:29The local Native American tribes call this place the Forbidden Ground,
15:33even before the house was built there, and they avoid approaching it.
15:37The owners of the shack, though, decided to turn it into an attraction, and they succeeded.
15:42They created an atmosphere of mystery around the place,
15:45and spread the news about it in newspapers and later on the Internet,
15:49and voila, a perfect anomaly is made.
15:52In fact, it's no more than a curiosity,
15:55a human-made optical illusion that tricks your eyes and other senses.
15:59Now, if you travel to the Philippines, Indonesia, or Papua New Guinea,
16:04you'll have a chance to see some of the most unusual and cheerful trees in the world.
16:09The trunk of the Rainbow Eucalyptus looks as if it had been painted
16:13orange, green, red, purple, yellow, brown, blue, hey, you name it!
16:18Some trees are so bright that they seem artificial.
16:21The Rainbow Eucalyptus regularly sheds strips of bark,
16:25which reveals a bright green layer underneath.
16:28A bit later, this green layer gradually changes its color,
16:32and since the shedding happens at a different time in different places on the trunk,
16:36the tree starts to look multicolored and very attractive.
16:41Yemen is home to the oldest skyscrapers in the world and the oldest metropolis.
16:46The ancient city of Shabam is considered to be the Manhattan of the desert
16:50due to the collection of mud buildings popping out of the desert floor.
16:54It used to be a caravan stop during ancient times.
16:59That's it for today!
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