Fields near the city of Perdizes, in the Minas Gerais state of Brazil. Photo courtesy: NASA
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Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss
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The Tungurahua volcano spews a column of ash as seen from Ambato, Ecuador, on Friday. The volcano spewed a 6-mile (10-kilometer) column of ash after a powerful five-minute explosion that shot pyroclastic material onto its northern and northwestern
In the Simpson Desert of central Australia, a fire is revealed by the vivid orange scars of plant-free sand.
During a geomagnetic storm, a neon green ribbon of aurora australis danced over Earth in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station.
Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, photograph taken from the International Space Station.
The city of São Paulo, Brazil, home to 17 million people, stands out like a beacon in the night. The variations in color are due to the city using different types of streetlights, according to NASA.
A "bubble" of steam surrounds volcanic ash rising from Sarychev Volcano, on the northwestern end of Matua Island. Matua is part of the Kuril Islands, a Russian archipelago that stretches from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia
Sapphire waters tinged with pink sediment seem to get tangled amid emerald vegetation in a satellite picture of Bombetoka Bay, on the northwestern coast of Madagascar.
In Eastern Algeria's stretch of the Sahara, the Tifernine Dune Field—a section of the Grand Erg Oriental dune sea meets the Tinrhert Plateau.
Tidal flats and channels on the western side of the Bahamas' Long Island.