1116-52832 - Woman standing under the large, boulders on the seaside shores of The Baths, a famous beach in the BVI's, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean
1116-51926 - View taken from behind of two women riding horses (Equus ferus caballus) traveling past acacia tree through the bush towards the hills at the Gabus Game Ranch at sunset; Otavi, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
1116-52102 - Woman hiking along the Dempster Highway enjoying the scenery, and standing on a piece of late season ice along the Klondike River in Tombstone Territorial Park; Yukon, Canada
1116-51264 - A lioness (Panthera leo) walks down a gravel airstrip next to her young cub. They both have golden coats, made to glow in the warm early morning light. Shot with a Nikon D850 in Serengeti National Park; Tanzania
832-393756 - Small fishing boat in front of huge icebergs and drift ice, seagulls circling around the boat, drift ice, winter, Disko Bay, Ilulissat, West Greenland, Denmark, Europe
832-388839 - Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), young animal, chick, on leaves of the giant water lily (Victoria amazonica), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
1116-48616 - A man walks across a grass field with the majestic mountains of Kluane National Park in the background, Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory, Canada
1116-47973 - A man stands on a forest trail holding up an eaten apple to the camera, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, California, United States of America
1116-47726 - Image of a man standing in an empty room with tall walls and a ladder leading up to the sunlight streaming from a window far above, composite image
860-287450 - Tara Oceans Expeditions - May 2011. Tara with deployed plancton nets. On "station", the boat is drifting without engine or sails. Tara Oceans, a unique expedition: Tara Oceans is the very first attempt to make a global study of marine plankton, a form of sea life that includes organisms as small as viruses and bacterias, and as big as medusas. Our goal is to better understand planktonic ecosystems by exploring the countless species, learning about interactions among them and with their environment. Marine plankton is the only ecosystem that is almost continuous over the surface of the Earth. Studying plankton is like taking the pulse of our planet. Recently, scientists have discovered the great importance of plankton for the climate: populations of plankton are affected very rapidly by variations in climate. But in turn they can influence the climate by modifying the absorption of carbon. In a context of rapid physico-chemical changes, for example the acidification observed today in the world's oceans, it is urgent to understand and predict the evolution of these particular ecosystems. Finally, plankton is an astonishing way of going back in time ? a prime source of fossils. Over the eons, plankton has created several hundred meters of sediment on the ocean floors. This allows us to go back in time, to the first oceans on Earth, and better understand the history of our biosphere. More than 12 fields of research are involved in the project, which will bring together an international team of oceanographers, ecologists, biologists, geneticists, and physicists from prestigious laboratories headed by Eric Karsenti of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Galapagos
1116-39714 - These two parasitic mollusks, Thyca crystallina, are growing on the host starfish, Linckia laevigata. This parasitic shell only attaches to this species of starfish, into which it burrows and sucks up nutrients, Philippines
1116-39679 - A young lady cools off in a pool below one of the many roadside waterfalls on the road to Hana, Kipahulu, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America
1116-39580 - A man points at the moon hanging over Denali from the top of a snowy ridge at sunset near Polychrome Mountain in Denali National Park; Alaska, United States of America
1116-39581 - A man on a snowy ridge near Polychrome Mountain in Denali National Park faces the sunset with Denali in the background; Alaska, United States of America
1116-39582 - Snowy, unnamed mountains form the backdrop behind a backpacker exploring the backcountry of Denali National Park; Alaska, United States of America
1116-39557 - A man is dwarfed by the jagged, ash-covered Knife Creek Glaciers and Trident Volcano in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai National Park; Alaska, United States of America
746-88341 - Muckle Roe, a small island of the Shetland Islands. Muckle Roe (big red isle) is famous for the red, unspoilt granite cliffs and beaches. europe, central europe, northern europe, united kingdom, great britain, scotland, northern isles,shetland islands islands, May
832-269861 - Historic Lower Saxony timber-framed house in Jabel, large door, estate house, former farmhouse, Hannoverian Wendland area, Luechow-Dannenberg district, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe