November 20 2013

China

Russian Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Yamal berthed at the Geographic North Pole 's Ice

(© Marketa Jirouskova/ Oxford Scientific/Getty Images)

United Kingdom

Termite Mounds and Snappy Gums in Savannah Grassland,Gulf Country,Queensland,Australia

(© Bill Bachman/Alamy)

 

 Australia,Canada,Germany,France

Red and Black anemonefish in bleaching anemone in the Lembeh Strait of North Sulawesi,Indonesia

(© Jeff Yonover/Tandem Stock)

 

New Zealand,United States

Viscous lava from Kilauea pours into the ocean at Kalapana,Hawaii,US

(© Ron Dahlquist/Aurora Photos)

 

 Japan

Rega Laila Manor,Sintra,Portugal

(© benitojuncal/Getty Images)

October 26 2013

Chins

Abacus

(© William James Warren/Science Faction/Corbis)

Germany

Footpath through the Cares Gorge (Garganta del Cares) in the Picos de Europa National Park,Castile and Leon,Spain

(© Sebastian Wasek/SuperStock)

Australia,Canada,France,Japan,United Kingdom

Aerial view of the Tobago Cays Group of Islands,St. Vincent and the Grenadines

(© Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis)

New Zealand,United States

Termite Mounds and Snappy Gums in Savannah Grassland,Gulf Country,Queensland,Australia

(© Bill Bachman/Alamy)

October 25 2013

England

Night Aerial View Onto Five A Side Football Pitches,England,UK

(© Jason Hawkes/Corbis)

Australia,Canada,France,Japan

Termite Mounds and Snappy Gums in Savannah Grassland,Gulf Country,Queensland,Australia

(© Bill Bachman/Alamy)

Germany

Clock in the Main hall of the Art Museum Musée d'Orsay,Paris,France

(© SIME/eStock Photo)

China

A Butterfly Landed Caiman Body,Pantanal,Brazil

(© Frank Lukasseck/Corbis)

New Zealand,United States

The Swiftwater Bridge Crosses the Wild Ammonoosuc River near Bath,New Hampshire,UK

(© Daniel Dempster Photography/Alamy)

August 15 2013

Australia,Canada,Germany,France,Japan,United Kingdom

Pineapple Fields in Maui,Hawaii,US
(© Pacific Stock - Design Pics/SuperStock)

China

Peak Red Tram passing through background for the Cityscape of Hong Kong

(© EIGHTFISH/The Image Bank/Getty Images)

New Zealand,United States

Victoria's Riflebird in Wooroonooran National Park,Wet Tropics World Heritage Area,Queensland,Australia

(© S Sailer/A Sailer/age fotostock)

August 14 2013

Victoria's Riflebird in Wooroonooran National Park,Wet Tropics World Heritage Area,Queensland,Australia

(© S Sailer/A Sailer/age fotostock)

New Zealand,United States

Fog Drifts over the Redwood National and State Parks,California,US
(© CorbisMotion)

July 04 2013

Germany

People on the Frozen Lake Aa in Winter,Münster,Westphalia,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany

Third Prize GEO Bing Photo Contest

(© Nguyen Manh Ngoc)

United States

City and County Building Illuminated in Civic Center Park,Denver,Colorado,US

(© Blaine Harrington/age fotostock/SuperStock)

China

Hallstatt Town,Salzkammergut Region,Austria

(© Qianli Zhang/Photo Contest of qyer.com)

 

Australia,Canada,France

Kermode Bear in Great Bear Rainforest (North and Central Coast),British Columbia,Canada

(© Ocean/Corbis)

United Kingdom

The Shard,London,England,UK

(© TPX/Age Fotostock)

Japan

Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef,Queensland,Australia

(© Grant Faint/Getty Images)

 New Zealand

 Ice Cave and Stream in Three Sisters Wilderness,Oregon,US

(© Marc Adamus/Getty Images)

May 20 2013

New Zealand

Lady Musgrave Island Coral Atoll in Capricorn-Bunker Group,Great Barrier Reef Marine Park,Queensland,Australia

(© D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Superstock)

Australia,Canada,China,Germany,France,Japan,United Kingdom

Bloom of Moon Jellyfish Swimming at night in Prince William Sound,Alaska,US

(© Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures)

United States

Workers in Terraced Rice Fields,Bali,Indonesia

(© Denis Waugh/Getty Images)

May 17 2013

United Kingdom

 Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica)

(© Werner Bollmann/Age Fotostock)

France

Geode and City of Science and Industry in the Parc de la Villette,Paris,France

(© Sylvain Sonnet/Corbis)

Japan

Lava lake of Erta Ale,Ethiopia

(© Dr. Richard Roscoe/Visuals Unlimited, Inc.)

Germany

Lighthouse Rotes Kliff in Kampen,Sylt,North Frisia,Schleswig-Holstein,Germany

(© Luca Da Ros/SIME/4Corners)

Australia, Canada

Wedge Pond and Mt. Kidd,Peter Lougheed Provincial Park,Alberta,Canada

(© Darwin Wiggett /Getty Images)

New Zealand, United States

A Lake in Jotunheimen National Park,Norway

(© Sylvestre Popinet/Christel Freidel/Minden Pictures)

 

China

Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef,Queensland,Australia

(© Grant Faint/Getty Images)

 

May 16 2013

United Kingdom

Hang Son Doong,Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park,Vietnam

(© Carsten Peter/Getty Images)

 Australia, Canada, Germany, France

A Lake in Jotunheimen National Park,Norway

(© Sylvestre Popinet/Christel Freidel/Minden Pictures)

Japan

Sensoji Hōzōmon,Asakusa,Tokyo,Japan

(© Jon Hicks/Corbis)

China

Sauce Spoon

(© FotografiaBasica/E+/Getty Images)

New Zealand, United States

Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef,Queensland,Australia

(© Grant Faint/Getty Images)

May 15 2013

Japan

 

Bangle Bangle,Purnululu National Park,Australia

(© Theo Allofs/Corbis)

United States

The Planet Mercury

(© NASA)

New Zealand

Plaza de la Paz with the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato,Guanajuato,Mexico

(© Blaine Harrington III/Alamy)

China

Red Hot Chili Peppers

(© Photography by Daniel Frauchiger,Switzerland/Flickr Open/Getty Images)

Australia, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom

Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef,Queensland,Australia

(© Grant Faint/Getty Images)

February 17 2013

Australia

Little Pied Cormorant on rocks near Kings Beach,Caloundra,Queensland,Australia

(© Glenn Liam Kelly Photography/Getty Images)

China

Dew Hanging on Dandelion

(© vkimages/E+/Getty Images)

France

Lava Flow along the Piton de la Fournaise,Reunion Island

(© Siegfried Tauqueur/Stockphotos)

Germany

Aponogeton Pollen on the Chip of a Digital Camera shot with Scanning Eelectron Microscope (SEM)

(©Martin Oeggerli/Visuals Unlimited, Inc.)

New Zealand, United States

Empty Seed Pods from a Kassod Tree in the District of Anantapur,Andhra Pradesh,India

(© Tim Gainey/Alamy)

 

United Kingdom

 

Kraków,Poland

(© Henryk T. Kaiser/age fotostock)

 

Canada, Japan

 

Radcliffe Camera,Oxford,England,UK

(© Paul Hardy/Corbis)