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The 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest is accepting submissions through Sunday, June 30, 2013. Among the entries are stunning images of animals from around the world. Here are 13 of our favorites received so far. Photographer: Whaleshark encounter in the Bohol Sea, Philippines. ...
Photographer Richard Gottardo spent the winter camping out in Revelstoke, British Columbia, hoping to photograph the aurora borealis over the Rocky Mountains. He finally captured the phenomenon on April 13, 2013 -- just days before he was set to leave. While waiting for the northern lights, Gottardo turned his attention to creating images of star trails. He made these by merging multiple photos taken over the course of several hours. Click through to see Gottardo's shots. ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior has been tweeting amazing photos of American wilderness areas. Click through to see some of our favorites. The U.S. Dept. of the Interior tweeted this photo on May 7 and wrote, "One of the most spectacular #lightning strikes we have ever seen. Near the South Rim @GrandCanyonNPS. pic.twitter.com/QGLIw0l87j" ...
A scientists takes a sample of water from a mine deep underground in Ontario, Canada. The water turned out to be 2.6 billion years old, the oldest known water on Earth. (B. Sherwood Lollar et al.) A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old - the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life - has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface. The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth, but in similar oases that may exist on Mars, the scientists who studied the water said. Geoscientist Barbara ...
Mount Everest is the second peak from the left. (Pavel Novak) Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico. Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 590 feet, Sudeep Thakuri, a graduate student at the University of Milan in Italy, said in a statement. Located in the Himalaya Mountains on the border between China and Nepal, Everest's summit is 29,029 feet above sea level. Thakuri and his colleagues tracked changes to glaciers, temperatures and precipitation at Everest and the surrounding Sagarmatha ...
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth today after spending five months onboard the International Space Station. Throughout his time orbiting the planet, Hadfield used Twitter to share his awe-inspiring images. Here are some of our favorites. Hadfield tweeted this photo on May 13. He wrote, "Spaceflight finale: To some this may look like a sunset. But it's a new dawn. pic.twitter.com/iVgyUihqEN" ...
