A days-old Nile crocodile (Crocodylus Niloticus) takes his first swim through the tannin-stained Louri Creek, deep in the heart of the 380,000-acre (153,781-hectare) Loango National Park.
A cow and two calves amble toward a village on the island of Inishmore. Forbearers of the islanders appeared in the 1934 documentary film Man of Aran, which is also the name of a cologne made of aromas redolent of the islands' traditional boat-leather, tar, wood, and the sea.
一头母牛和两个小牛崽悠闲地走向Inishmore岛的一个小村庄。在1934年的一部记录片——Man of Aran中，岛上的居民曾被提及。这个小村庄的名字亦被命名为一种古龙香水，这种香水带有当地传统的船皮、焦油、木材和海的芬芳。
April 4, 2007
Long Island, Bahama Islands, 1986
Bahama 群岛,长岛, 1986
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
A flock of black-necked stilts glides over the waters surrounding Long Island in the Bahamas. Considered to be the third island that Columbus charted during his first voyage to the New World in 1492, he named it La Fernandina, perhaps after his illegitimate 4-year-old son or after the Spanish monarch who helped finance his voyage.
A ladybug walks along a wild lupine leaf in California's Yosemite National Park. These colorful plants were brought to North America from the Mediterranean as ornamental flora and quickly spread into the wild. The Yosemite varieties usually flower blue and white and grow abundantly in the park's sandy soil.
Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge, Tennessee, 1975
田纳西 Reelfoot国家野生动物庇护所
Photograph by Bates Littlehales
Tennessee's Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge. Duckweed, the world's smallest flowering plant, grows on the surface of still or slow-moving water. It grows rapidly—sometimes too rapidly, occasionally covering whole lakes or drought-slowed rivers—and provides protection for water creatures, control of excess minerals, and a barrier against evaporation.
Hawthorne bushes ascend upon the remains of a split-rail fence on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. The tiny island, a horseshoe-shaped chip of land located 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Cape Cod, is home to about 10,000 permanent residents. That number blooms to about 50,000 in the warmer months when tourists and summer residents descend.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, U.S.A., 1989
美国·华盛顿Gifford Pinchot 国家森林公园
Photograph by James P. Blair
Charred wood litters a partially cleared area in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest along Washington state's Cascade Range. The fires are set deliberately to clear the land of debris after logging and to facilitate new growth. Gifford Pinchot is home to Mount St. Helens, and was ground zero of the battle between logging interests and those seeking to protect the northern spotted owl.
Celestial skies stream light onto a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker as it cuts a trail through a frozen expanse of Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
一艘加拿大海岸警卫队的破冰船在加西北地区冰封的北冰洋上破冰前行。天空的余晖投射在前进的破冰船上。
The Canadian Coast Guard was part of a mission to explore the sunken wreckage of the H.M.S. Breadalbane, a British ship that went down in the 1850s while on a mission to find survivors of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to map the Northwest Passage.
This formation, called Minerva Terrace, formed as mineral-laden water bubbled over and evaporated, leaving a sparkling white calcium-carbonate crust. These deposits, which can accumulate at up to a foot (30 centimeters) per year, create a spectacular and constantly changing landscape.
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