© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motio
A balance in motion. World Nature Conservation Day
Off Anacapa Island, California, the ocean grows its own forests. Within Channel Islands National Park—also known as the 'Galápagos of North America'—giant kelp stretches beyond 100 feet in length, forming buoyant ribbons lifted by air-filled bladders and anchored below by rootlike holdfasts.
Yurts in the grasslands of Mongolia
Bathing huts on the beach in Skåne County, Sweden
San Blas Islands, Panama
Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve in Australia
Close-up of a fly on flower stamens
Castelluccio in Monti Sibillini National Park, Italy
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, France