By combining high-resolution satellite images, a research team counted roughly 117 million lakes larger than 0.2 hectares in 2014. Together they cover nearly 4% of the non-glaciated land surface. The vast majority are tiny, and they cluster in regions once scoured by glaciers, such as Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia.
On 27 August 1883, the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa was heard as far away as Rodrigues Island, nearly 4,800 km away. Its pressure wave was picked up by barometers worldwide and circled the globe several times. The tsunamis that followed killed more than 36,000 people.
The deepest known point in the ocean, Challenger Deep, lies roughly 10,900 m below the Pacific surface. Drop Everest in and its summit would still sit about 2 km underwater. Down there, the pressure is more than 1,000 times what you feel at sea level, roughly a tonne pressing on every square centimetre.