Where the Sidewalk Ends

Sinkhole in Guatemala City:

"This astonishingly unnerving photograph was posted today on the Flickr.com feed of the Guatemalan goverment and shows a seemingly bottomless sinkhole that opened up on Sunday in Guatemala City as a swath of Central America was drenched by tropical storm Agatha."

Blood Falls

Glacier "Bleeds" Proof of Million-Year-Old Life-Forms.

The Bloodiest Glacier on Earth
Somewhere around two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath 1,300 feet of ice – a body of water that contained an ancient community of microbes. A microbe is a living thing, or organism that is too tiny to be seen without the aid of a microscope. Most, but not all, are single-celled organisms.

[From Boing Boing]