The city is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico and site of the busiest international land-border crossing in the world.
Published Jul 24, 2017Occupying a valley carved by glaciers, the remote lake dominates Ts’yl-os Provincial Park in British Columbia.
Published Jul 17, 2017Wedged between Maryland and Virginia, the District of Columbia was established in 1790 to serve as the permanent seat of the U.S. federal government.
Published Jul 10, 2017In June 2017, astronauts aboard the International Space Station were asked to take photographs of widespread wildfires on South Africa’s mountainous southern coast.
Published Jul 3, 2017An astronaut caught a glimpse of the aurora australis while looking out across the Indian Ocean.
Published Jul 2, 2017An astronaut managed to capture the size and detail of the artificial landscape that results from strip mining.
Published Jun 26, 2017Along the delta of the Guadalquivir River, fish farming takes a more natural course.
Published Jun 19, 2017Known as the rural side of New Orleans, the landscape is largely marshes and bayous and old European names.
Published Jun 12, 2017This geologically young volcanic field in western Sudan has nearly 700 vents and craters.
Published Jun 5, 2017Turbines and alluvial fans scratch out shapes across the flat landscape.
Published May 29, 2017This passage through the Peloponnese Peninsula was 2500 years in the making.
Published May 22, 2017The city has a commanding view of the fertile and well-vegetated river basin and plain.
Published May 15, 2017A saddle-shaped mountain distinguishes a region that carries a heavy economic load for Mexico.
Published May 10, 2017A nearly uninterrupted string of lights stretches from Philadelphia to Hartford.
Published May 1, 2017The landscape near the southern Murray River contrasts fertile farmland with dry lakes.
Published Apr 24, 2017There is nothing rotten about this view of the Scandinavian nation that thrives amidst cold northern waters.
Published Apr 17, 2017Straddling Austria and Hungary, the lake is also known as the “Sea of the Viennese.”
Published Apr 10, 2017Standing beside floodplains and wetlands, the highlands are packed with farms.
Published Apr 3, 2017Winter traces white and blue across the high country.
Published Mar 27, 2017Much of the land surface is covered by salt evaporation ponds and a saline lake known as Town Pond, around which the capital—Cockburn Town—developed.
Published Mar 20, 2017Shelterbelts, or wind breaks, are used to protect and preserve farmland in southern Russian.
Published Mar 13, 2017Millennia of human development stand alongside mainland Europe’s only active volcano.
Published Mar 6, 2017The International Space Station got a view of the overflowing dam.
Published Mar 3, 2017The usually dry, inland lake in Australia came alive with color after flood waters arrived in the late summer of 2017.
Published Feb 27, 2017Salt and algae lend color to the bed of this desert lake in Iran.
Published Feb 20, 2017Ancient monasteries and settlements dot these islands in the middle of Ethiopia’s largest lake.
Published Feb 13, 2017Australia’s second-largest city has an historic past.
Published Feb 6, 2017Astronauts on the Space Station had a glowing view of their professional home, as well as the site of Super Bowl 51.
Published Feb 4, 2017Lands along the Priest River show a human hand at work.
Published Jan 30, 2017