The Bottom Of The World: Exploring Earth's Lowest Places

Californa Academy of Sciences (Calacademy): The Bottom Of The World: Exploring Earth's Lowest Places.

Why go up when you can go down? Botanist Jim Malusa travels to the lowest places on the planet, on bicycle. From Lac Assal in Africa to Lake Eyre in Australia to Death Valley, he finds dry deserts, but also oases of life - birds, plants, and even people.

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution based in San Francisco. The Academy recently opened a new facility in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.

The new facility is also home to the Academy's staff of world-class scientists, an education department that provides a wide range of student and teacher services, and an extensive science library with over 26 million specimens and artifacts.

• http://www.calacademy.org/

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Extreme locations on Earth:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes...