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| | Fires Blaze through South-Central Chile
Hot, dry winds fanned the flames of widespread fires in Chile. |
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| | A Dry Lake Hamun Means More Dust Storms
When the seasonal lake and wetlands in the Sistan Basin dry out, dust often fills the sky. |
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| | Landslide Creeping Below an African City
A large, slow-moving landslide is accelerating in eastern Congo, putting a community at risk. |
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| | Siling Lake
One of the largest water bodies on the Tibetan Plateau has been growing even larger in recent decades. |
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| | Quirimbas Islands
Skirting the coastline of Mozambique, these 32 small islands are home to a diversity of corals and sea turtles. |
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| | Ex-cell-ent Clouds off Chile's Coast
Satellites have exposed the impressive coverage of marine stratocumulus clouds as well as their compelling shapes and patterns. |
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| | Sichuan's Smoggy Basin
The waters of an ancient lake once pooled in this basin in southwestern China. Now haze and air pollution do the same. |