A fiery sunset over the Lemaire Strait, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Thousands of tons of icebergs weighing more than 100,000 pounds are breaking off the continent's coastal ice sheets as the ocean and climate warm.
Photo: Camille Seaman/NationalGeographic
A sea lion hunts for fish under a kelp mass in Cortes Bank, a seamount off the coast of San Diego, California. This is one of the rare marine creatures that needs to be protected.
Photo: Brian Skerry/NationalGeographic
Popular with Instagram followers, Jonathan Farrar and Marty Castro have been on numerous backpacking and camping trips. They have driven up the West Coast, visited national parks, and visited America's deepest lake, Crater Lake, in Oregon.
Photo: Corey Arnold/NationalGeographic
The lights from the greenhouses of Westland, the capital of the Netherlands. These are temperature-controlled, environment-controlled, climate-controlled farms in all types of weather.
Photo: Luca Locatelli/NationalGeographic
The vast Bonneville Salt Flats are a favorite destination for commercial manufacturers and racers worldwide. The high salt concentration causes the salt to freeze, creating hard, rough, thick, rime-covered surfaces. The racetrack, a salt flat, closes until summer, when it becomes nothing but an endless expanse of salt.
Photo: Carolyn Drake/NationalGeographic
Elephants move through the Okavango region. This photo shows the complex changes in water and land. By opening more canals to bring water to the dry land, the environment and water resources for the wildlife and rich vegetation of Botswana's Okavango region have been improved.
Photo: Cory Richards/NationalGeographic
Fields of heather bloom in vibrant colors next to the River Dee at the Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The local authority is carrying out a reforestation project in this park.
Photo: Jim Richardson/NationalGeographic
At Gasa Monastery, Bhutan, monks are playing a volleyball game with local police in the majestic space. Bhutan - the country known as the happiest country in the world, where the climate is fresh, less polluted by industrial dust than other countries.
Photo: Ciril Jazbec/NationalGeographic
Cemetery of Afari nomads among lava flows and clay near the Awash River Delta in Ethiopia.
Photo: George Steinmetz/NationalGeographic
An astronaut on the International Space Station ISS captured this image of a green aurora above Earth in 2010.
Photo: NASA/National Geographic
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