Wonders of Planet Earth (27 photos)

A selection of photos, eloquently telling how beautiful but sometimes harsh planet.

Sheldon glacier and summit Barre near the polar station Rothera on Adelaide Island, Antarctica.


worker sits on the roof of the house, who rushed to the sands of the desert, near the railway station Ogrein, Sudan.


A pair of flip flops on the beach overgrown by algae in Qingdao, China.


Woman looking for clams in mineral mud on the shore of the lagoon in South Tarawa, Kiribati.


Boat floating on the lagoon near the island Baykman off the coast of South Tarawa, Kiribati


Kokino megalithic observatory of the summer solstice in Kumanovo, Macedonia.


The moon rises over the temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion east of Athens.


Lonely tree stands in the smoke of a forest fire in the district Lower Roca Riau province, Indonesia.


The eruption of the volcano Popocatepetl on the outskirts of Puebla, Mexico.


The ashes of the volcano Popocatepetl in Paso de Cortes, Mexico.


The ship sails in the morning mist on the Yenisei River near the village of Galanin, Krasnoyarsk Territory.


Snowy Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of steam in Puebla, Mexico.


Tourists riding on camels at dawn in Dunhuang, Gansu, China.


Hundreds of dead stingrays on the beach in Chachalakase, Mexico.


The monkey sits in a pond in a park wildlife in Hefei, Anhui, China.


Passenger airliner flying against the backdrop of the moon in the sky over Shanghai, China.


Leopard yawns in his enclosure in Madrid Zoo, Spain.


Cows lying in the pasture on a hot summer day in Innsbruck, Austria.


Lightning flashed in the sky over the area of ​​Pudong in Shanghai, China.


Forest fires raging around Cebreros, Spain.


Flash flood in Khartoum, Sudan.


Bird flying on the background of the halo in the sky over Kathmandu, Nepal.


Statue of Hindu god Shiva on the banks of deep Ganges in Allahabad, India.


Thai soldier removes oil on the beach of Ao Prao on the island of Samet.


Lightning flashed over the buildings during a thunderstorm in the heart of Shanghai, China.


A man stands on the beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka.


A river flows among the sand dunes in the Tanami Desert, Australia.