Chinese new year lanterns

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2023-01-21China
Chinese new year lanterns
Happy Chinese New Year's eve! At the start of the Chinese New Year celebration period, Chinese New Year's eve is a very important occasion for Chinese people, it is the reunion day for every Chinese family. All family members will gather together, enjoying a grand f...[阅读全文]

King penguins in the Falkland Islands

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2023-01-20Falkland Islands
King penguins in the Falkland Islands
We're celebrating Penguin Awareness Day in the Falkland Islands, taking a stroll with some king penguins. Kings are the second-largest penguin species, only outranked in stature by their emperor penguin cousins. And while the kings' tuxedo coloring gives them a dash of th...[阅读全文]

Park City

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2023-01-19Utah
Park City
As beautiful as this vista is, most of today's visitors to Park City are there to spend the day inside. Sundance Film Festival is the nation's biggest celebration of independent cinema. The careers of Hollywood directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh...[阅读全文]

White Sands National Park

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2023-01-18New Mexico
White Sands National Park
If today's photo evokes some chilly feelings inside of you, surprise! That's not snow, but part of the largest gypsum dune field on the planet. We're at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, which was first established as a monument on this date in 1933 and then becam...[阅读全文]

Muniellos Nature Reserve in Asturias

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2023-01-17Spain
Muniellos Nature Reserve in Asturias
The Muniellos Nature Reserve is one of Spain's best-preserved forests of Quercus robur, otherwise known as common oak, European oak, or English oak. The 13,560-acre reserve in Asturias province also includes sessile oaks, seen in our photo alongside beech trees.In the ...[阅读全文]

Mount Michener and a frozen Abraham Lake in Alberta

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2023-01-16Canada
Mount Michener and a frozen Abraham Lake in Alberta
Lake Abraham might be home to beautiful ice crystals, but they hold a deadly secret. Abraham Lake’s main attraction comes during the winter months, when methane bubbles become trapped below the surface of the lake and freeze, creating crystal-like formations under the surfac...[阅读全文]

Aura River in Turku

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2023-01-15Finland
Aura River in Turku
The Turku Cathedral rises above the frosted forests near the mouth of the Aura River, which runs through the middle of Turku, Finland.Originally built out of wood in the late 13th century, the cathedral was expanded in the 14th and 15th centuries, mainly using stone as co...[阅读全文]

Domestic donkey feeding on cherry twigs

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2023-01-14Unknown
Domestic donkey feeding on cherry twigs
This fuzzy donkey feeding on the leaves of a cherry tree probably doesn't know that today was once celebrated as the Feast of the Donkey. We think any day is a good day to celebrate donkeys. They've carried the load for humans for more than 7,000 years, so let's give them so...[阅读全文]

Giant kelp in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

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2023-01-13California
Giant kelp in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
All along the Pacific Coast of North America, giant stands of kelp up to 100 feet high, like this one in California's Channel Islands, provide habitat for a vast number of fish, invertebrates, and sea mammals. Giant kelp, technically a type of brown algae, is the largest...[阅读全文]

Rumelihisarı on the Bosporus Strait at Istanbul

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2023-01-12Türkiye
Rumelihisarı on the Bosporus Strait at Istanbul
Though Türkiye usually lives up to expectations as a warm Mediterranean country, snow occasionally falls here. This winter dusting of Istanbul, Türkiye's largest city, brings into sharper focus the lines of Rumelihisarı in the center of our image. The structure, also k...[阅读全文]