Drying Mud, Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia

Posted on November 26, 2008 by nyokki | 4 Comments
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Mud baking in the hot Indonesian sun nearly reached the rooflines in a village in Sidoarjo, East Java. In 2006, a fracture deep within the Earth, likely caused by local natural-gas drilling, triggered a massive release of hot mud that lasted for months and buried the region.
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Tree Frog, Pacific Islands

Posted on November 25, 2008 by nyokki | 3 Comments
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A tree frog shows off its broad and effective grip while clinging to a tree trunk in the Pacific Islands. Frogs—particularly tropical species—are vanishing at alarming rates, in part due to disease epidemics attributed to climate change. Amphibian skin is incredibly thin, making frogs acutely susceptible to changes in temperature, humidity, or water quality.
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Eel Blenny

Posted on November 24, 2008 by nyokki | 7 Comments
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Tiny blennies such as this spinyhead poke out from the coral in Cuba’s Cayo Largo, always on the lookout for edible items within darting reach. “They are no bigger than an infant’s finger, but they are tigers—extremely aggressive and territorial,” says photographer David Doubilet. “They seem to have no concept of their own size.”
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Human Skull, Peru, 2000

Posted on November 23, 2008 by nyokki | Leave a Comment
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All that remains of the Peruvian cloud people, the Chachapoya, lie in muddy tombs such as this one on the eastern slopes of the Andes. The ancient culture, which built mountaintop fortresses and fiercely resisted the Inca, survived from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Many of the trinkets the Chachapoya buried with their dead have been lost to looters over the centuries.
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Mummy Hand

Posted on October 31, 2008 by nyokki | 9 Comments
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A close-up shows the desiccated hand of a remarkably preserved woman from Peru’s ancient Moche culture. The discovery of her elaborately wrapped remains at a ceremonial site called El Brujo puzzled archaeologists, who were surprised by what appeared to be a female ruler among the male-dominated Moche.

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Iceberg

Posted on October 20, 2008 by nyokki | Leave a Comment
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Jakobshavn Fjord, Greenland, 2007
At four miles (six kilometers) wide and several thousand feet thick Jakobshavn Isbræ disgorges icebergs like these faster than any other of Greenland’s glaciers. Its output, accelerated by global warming, totals some 11 cubic miles (45 cubic kilometers) of ice each year.

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Ice Hikers

Posted on October 19, 2008 by nyokki | 4 Comments
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Ice Hikers, South Islands, New Zealand, 2002

Hikers negotiate a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier in South Island, New Zealand. This highly accessible river of ice begins in the peaks of the Southern Alps, but flows some 8,000 vertical feet (2,400 vertical meters) into the lush rain forest of New Zealand’s Westlands National Park.


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Black Sea Castle, Yalta, Russia/Ukraine, 1987

Posted on October 10, 2008 by nyokki | 9 Comments
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The neo-Gothic Swallow’s Nest castle perches 130 feet (40 meters) above the Black Sea near Yalta in southern Ukraine. Built by a German noble in 1912, the flamboyant seaside residence now houses an Italian restaurant.

A Restaurant?!!
It looks like it was carved directly out of the rock.

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Chiru Expedition, Chang Tang, Tibet, 200

Posted on October 7, 2008 by nyokki | 5 Comments
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An expedition member hauls a custom-built ricksha laden with supplies across the desolate Chang Tang alpine steppe in northern Tibet. A group of elite mountaineers put together the expedition to witness births at the remote calving grounds of the elusive chiru, or Tibetan antelope.

The expeditioners chose to use lightweight rickshas instead of four-wheel-drive vehicles, which would get stuck in the mud and spook the chiru with engine noise.

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Wildfire, Big Sur, California, 2000

Posted on October 4, 2008 by nyokki | 4 Comments
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A wildfire encroaches on a tree in California’s still wild Big Sur. Strict zoning laws and a limited water supply ensure that the area has not become overly populated, and nature, too, has done her part to keep developers away: In 1997 a fire raged in the Santa Lucia Range for three weeks. Big Sur naturalist John Smiley calls the wildfires simply “another type of weather.”

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