{"id":182,"date":"2014-01-04T02:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T08:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-01-04T02:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T08:24:51","slug":"a-very-big-small-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/a-very-big-small-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Big, Small World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One can argue that thanks to technology and industry working hand in hand over the last century, the world is a far smaller place than it once was. But amazingly, that same technology that has made the world feel as though it&#8217;s shrunk has also reminded us just how vast our world really is&#8211;and how much we still have yet to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that with over an estimated 7.2 BILLION people on the planet, we&#8217;re still able to find not only species we&#8217;ve never before seen, but entire RAIN FORESTS!<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show you&#8211;there&#8217;s always more out there than you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mount-mabu-google-earth-rainforest-537x358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-183\" alt=\"mount-mabu-google-earth-rainforest-537x358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mount-mabu-google-earth-rainforest-537x358-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mount-mabu-google-earth-rainforest-537x358-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mount-mabu-google-earth-rainforest-537x358.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[J]ust a few years ago scientists used satellite images from <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/tag\/google-earth\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Google Earth<\/a> to discover a lost world in Mozambique that is packed with never-before-seen species. Mount Mabu is home to so many new and unique species that scientists have applied for it to become a protected area \u2013 before loggers in the area can have their way. Pygmy chameleons, bronzed bush vipers and <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/gmos-and-illegal-logging-halved-mexican-monarch-butterfly-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">shimmering yellow\u00a0butterflies<\/a>\u00a0are just a few of the amazing creatures that have been discovered so far.<\/p>\n<div>\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/remote-rainforest-found-using-google-earth-harbors-never-before-seen-species\/#ixzz2pPqQ5I65\">Remote Rainforest Found Using Google Earth Harbors Never-Before-Seen Species | Inhabitat &#8211; Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/a-very-big-small-world\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can argue that thanks to technology and industry working hand in hand over the last century, the world is a far smaller place than it once was. But amazingly, that same technology that has made the world feel as though it&#8217;s shrunk has also reminded us just how vast our world really is&#8211;and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[40,59,62,57,61,60,56,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}