The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world which covers parts of India and Bangladesh by NASA // Saltstraumen Maelstrom, Norway
Vantablack is a substance made of carbon nanotubules, and is the blackest substance ever created. It absorbs approximately 99.965% of visible light that hits it. When a photon strikes the material, instead of bouncing off of it (like most other surfaces), it becomes trapped in the nanotubules, continually deflecting from tube to tube before eventually becoming heat.
Stemonitis fusca is a rather marvelous species of slime mold that carries its jelly-like spore-forming fruiting bodies on curious stilts | photo by Nick Cantle | +
A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants, or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles, giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance.