One Cubic Foot

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Just how much life can you find in an ecosystem of one cubic foot? That is the question photographer David Liittschwager set out to answer when photographed a range of different environments on land and in water, in tropical climes and temperate regions and began to chart the living organisms. Download MP3 (Photo: ©2010 David Liittschwager/National Geographic)