Planet Earth

The world we live in in 30 pix. 

1National Park Service handout photo shows Mount McKinley in Alaska. Handout ./Reuters

2A student from the University of Indonesia descends into Jomblang cave at Gunungkidul district. Dwi Oblo/Reuters

3Local residents watch as sediment-laden flood water gushes through the Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River in Luoyang. Carlf Zhang/Reuters

4A double rainbow appears after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight Nevada. Gene Blevins/Reuters

5Woman stands between sunflowers near Gachenbach. Michaela Rehle/Reuters

6A storm cloud begins to dump rain as it passes over the Brooklyn borough of New York. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

7A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Kuklici, known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones which resembles human beings, near Kratovo. Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters

8A Panamanian Golden frog is seen inside an exhibition glass during the Golden Frog Day in the Nispero Zoo at the Valle de Anton. Carlos Jasso/Reuters

9King penguin swims in pool at zoo in Zurich. Michael Buholzer/Reuters

10An elephant walks in Serengeti National Park. Noor Khamis/Reuters

11Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews large clouds of gas. Stringer ./Reuters

12Lightning strikes over a house during a thunderstorm in the northern Swiss town of Muellheim. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

13Lion cub rests at Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Noor Khamis/Reuters

14Statue of Virgin Mary stands in yard of house flooded by Hurricane Isaac in La Place. Lee Celano/Reuters

15Houses are submerged in flood waters after a Hurricane Isaac levee breach in Braithwaite. Sean Gardner/Reuters

16A Rufous-tailed hummingbird flies in a garden in San Francisco, near Bogota. Jose Gomez/Reuters

17Villagers walk through a dry dam as a result of a long drought period that hit the area in Bojonegoro. Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters

18The owner of a farm fights against the active front of a forest fire near Mengualde. Rafael Marchante/Reuters

19The planet Venus makes a transit as a person watches the sun set over the Great Salt Lake outside Salt Lake City. Jim Urquhart/Reuters

20A woman paddles on a surfboard on a sunny summer evening on Lake Zurich. Christian Hartmann/Reuters

21A river runs through a valley near Moose Pond. POOL New/Reuters

22The flowers of a blooming yellow Lapacho tree are seen in Canindeyu. Jorge Adorno/Reuters

23Hills are reflected in waters of Yenisei River in the Siberian Taiga district outside Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

24Yawalapiti native holds yellow-spotted black stingray he speared in Tuatuari River during this year's Quarup in Xingu National Park. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

25Oil slick flows at the base of a lone tree at Bodo creek, outside Nigeria's oil hub city of Port Harcourt. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

26Dark clouds cover the sky in downtown Shanghai. Aly Song/Reuters

27A Loggerhead turtle hatchling makes its way to the surf at Myrtle Beach State Park in Myrtle Beach. Randall Hill/Reuters

28A Kashmiri girl rows a kayak in Dal Lake covered by aquatic plants in Srinagar. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters

29Policemen gesture to a driver stranded in a car on a flooded road as waves are whipped up by typhoon Bolaven in Qingdao. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/Reuters

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