Jellyfish Lake

Over at our sibling site all about the wonders of nature, Ark in Space, there is an article about one of the stranger places on earth – Jellyfish Lake. Every day millions of golden jellyfish migrate – no big surprise there you might say.  However, you might not expect them to migrate horizontally across a lake.  Still, a visit to Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk, an island in Palau, in the Pacific Ocean, will confirm just that.  Yet just how on earth did these jellyfish get to the lake in the first place?

So, if you are not too squeamish, why not head over to Ark in Space and take a look at this weird quirk of Mother Nature?

Image Credit Flickr User Tobze

What is Migration?

Immigration is a thorny subject pretty much everywhere in the developed world. Everyone has an opinion about it and sometimes normally level headed people can get so fired up about the topic of migration and immigration that they seem to become another person entirely! It has to be said, that the subject does have enormous and far-reaching consequences.

Fear of migration and immigration has helped far right wing political parties gain popularity and moderate governments have changed policies to fit in with this – both Europe and the United States have an increasingly isolationist policy towards migrants.

Yet what exactly is migration? What causes migration – and what precisely are the problems (not to mention the benefits) of migration and immigration? This fascinating animated video in the WissensWerte series deals with this hot topic and offers a measured and pragmatic definition and explanation.

Monarch Migration – Staggering Spectacle of Nature

Image Credit Flickr User Pablo Leautaud

How it quite started no one will ever know for sure but every year the monarch butterfly begins a migration which lasts an incredible four generations.  They may not be long lived but this must be a record among animals, surely? It means that there has never been a single monarch which has completed the round trip itself but the survival species is paramount.  On their amazing journey, however, the monarchs give us one of nature’s most spectacular sights.  The Ark in Space has the full story plus some amazing photographs.