[2008.05.27]『国家地理』2008年5月图片精选[27P]

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May 01, 2008

Tundra Village, Moriusaq, Greenland, 2006
Photograph by David McLain

The tiny village of Moriusaq stands on the frozen landscape of northwest Greenland. The sea ice near this settlement used to be thick enough to travel and hunt on for hundreds of miles for up to ten months. Recently though, climate change has reduced this crucial window to just a few weeks each year.

May 02, 2008

Hatchling Alligators, Big Cypress Swamp, Florida, 1994
Photograph by Chris Johns

Hatchling alligators break free of their shells in Big Cypress Swamp in the Florida Everglades. Babies who have trouble emerging get a surprisingly delicate assist from the tooth-lined jaws of their mother.

May 03, 2008

Afar Goat Herders, Ethiopia, 2005
Photograph by Carsten Peter

Afar goat herders use a reed mat to shield their campfire from the steady winds of the Ethiopian Danakil Desert. The Afar are a nomadic people who drive their camels, donkeys, and goats in search of the region's scant pasturelands. Centuries of defending their territory and their herds has made them fierce. One Afar custom, now defunct, declared a man could not marry without first killing an enemy tribesman.

May 04, 2008

Tie-Dyed Fabric, Jaipur, India, 1999
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky

Tie-dyed fabric is hung to dry from a roof in Jaipur, India. Such Indian textiles are among the richest craft legacies on Earth, encompassing literally thousands of local styles and techniques.

May 05, 2008

Migrating Monarchs, El Rosario Preserve, Mexico, 2004
Photograph by Peter Essick

A colony of monarch butterflies clings to a tree in the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve in the mountains of central Mexico. The Mexican government is working to encourage tourism and discourage illegal logging in the preserve, where millions of these delicate orange-and-black butterflies come to nest each winter.

May 06, 2008

Boatyard at Sunset, Yscloskey, Louisiana, 2001
Photograph by Medford Taylor

A mauve sunset blankets a boatyard in Yscloskey, Louisiana, in 2001. This and nearly all the other fishing hamlets in the marshlands of St. Bernard Parish southeast of New Orleans were flattened in the summer of 2005 by Hurricane Katrina's 20-foot (6-meter) storm surge. Years later, the region's fisheries and oil and gas industries are still rebuilding.

May 07, 2008

Green Grappler Moth Caterpillar, Maui, Hawaii, 2003
Photograph by Darlyne Murawski

Sensitive hairs and nerves on the back of the green grappler moth caterpillar detect the slightest touch of prey. Lightning-fast reflexes and six needle-tipped claws spell the end for this termite in Maui, Hawaii

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May 08, 2008

Bathing Snow Monkey, Japan, 1995
Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Japanese macaques, also called snow monkeys, live farther north than any other non-human primates. Their thick coats help them survive the frigid temperatures of central Japan's highlands. But when the mercury really plummets, they go to plan B: hot-tubbing in the region's many thermal springs.

May 09, 2008Previous

Manoki Indian, Amazon River Basin, Brazil, 2007
Photograph by Alex Webb

A Manoki Indian in a feathered headdress and beads glides down a stream in Brazil's Amazon River Basin. The Manoki are one of about 170 indigenous Amazonian peoples whose homelands are imperiled by an intense land rush in the Amazon fueled by the timber, agriculture, and cattle industries.

May 10, 2008

Desert Wildlife, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2003
Photograph by Joel Sartore

Birds perch on a cactus as a gray fox warily stands below in Chile's Atacama Desert. Rain rarely falls on the Atacama's coastline, but dense fog known as camanchaca is abundant. The fog nourishes plant communities from cactuses to ferns.

May 11, 2008

Mother Camel and Baby, Sahara, Chad, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz

A young dromedary camel peeks underneath its mother as she casually drinks in the Guelta Archeï, a steep canyon in the Chadian Sahara. But camels beware. These isolated waters hold a zoological surprise: Algae, fertilized by camel droppings, are eaten by fish that are preyed upon by a group of crocodiles.

May 12, 2008

Iceberg With Meltwater Pool, Jakobshavn Fjord, Greenland, 2007
Photograph by James Balog

Icebergs, including one with a sapphire pool of meltwater, clutter Greenland's Jakobshavn Fjord near the village of Ilulissat. The glacier that produced this flotilla has receded some four miles (six kilometers) since the year 2000.

May 13, 2008

Tiny Orange Crab, Panay Island, Philippines, 2002
Photograph by Tim Laman

An orange crab crawls on a leaf on Panay Island in the Philippines. The islands of the Philippines have some 12,000 plant and 1,100 land vertebrate species. But habitat loss threatens to erase much of this ecological diversity.

May 14, 2008

Snow and Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1998
Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie

Jagged peaks pierce the icy expanse of Antarctica's Queen Maud Land. These stark granite formations are the visible tips of mountains that lie buried beneath an ice sheet some 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) thick.

May 15, 2008

Cattle Bones, Simpson Desert, Australia, 1992
Photograph by Medford Taylor

A multicolored sunset contrasts the bleached bones of dead cattle in Australia's Simpson Desert. Though forbiddingly dry, the Simpson Desert has aquifers and floodplains that make parts of it ideal livestock-grazing country.

May 16, 2008

Snow-Dusted Peaks, Yosemite National Park, California, 1985
Photograph by Jonathan Blair

A quiet pond reflects snow-dusted trees and granite outcrops of the Sierra Nevada in California's Yosemite National Park. Solitude in Yosemite may seem like romantic nostalgia to its 3.5 million annual tourists. But opportunities to experience true wilderness are as plentiful and as varied as the park's natural treasures.

May 17, 2008

Artist Carving a Mask, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Photograph by Justin Guariglia

An artist in Kyoto, Japan, carves a mask used in Noh, one of Japan's oldest theatre genres. The masks generally wear a deadpan expression. In Noh, the drama is conveyed through the music and the actors' symbolic movements.

May 18, 2008

Afar Herdsmen, Danakil Desert, Ethiopia, 2005
Photograph by Carsten Peter

A group of Afar nomads leads camels through Ethiopia's Danakil Desert. The Afar regard themselves as one ethnic group, though their population of about three million is divided among Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti. "We are the people who move," said one Afar woman. "From the beginning that has been our way."

May 19, 2008

Desert at Dawn, Saudi Arabia, 2003
Photograph by Reza

A lone man walks over sand dunes in the Saudi Arabian desert. This oil-rich kingdom on the Arabia Peninsula covers some 770,000 square miles (2 million square kilometers), more than 98 percent of which is desert.

May 20, 2008

Young Seahorses, New South Wales, Australia, 1994
Photograph by George Grall

A group of young seahorses drifts in shallow waters off Manly, New South Wales, Australia. From Canada to Tasmania, most coastal areas with sea grass beds, mangroves, or coral reefs can lay claim to a seahorse species or two.

May 21, 2008

Scottish Sea Town, Pennan, Scotland, U.K., 2006
Photograph by Jim Richardson

The uniformly whitewashed cottages of Pennan, Scotland, line up around a quiet cove in Moray Firth as boats rest within a small manmade harbor. The town has been in existence for over a thousand years but gained international fame in the 1980s as the fictional village of Ferness in the popular movie Local Hero.

May 22, 2008

Puss Moth Larva, England, 1997
Photograph by Darlyne Murawski

A puss moth larva disposes of its old skin (left) and head capsule (right) after molting on a leaf in England. These disarmingly colorful critters actually pack some potent weaponry. A gland on the moth's thorax sprays formic acid, and its upright rear appendages sport noxious, pink tentacles.

May 23, 2008

Sunset and Palm Trees, Captiva Island, Florida, 1992
Photograph by Raymond Gehman

A fuchsia sunset backdrops a stand of palm trees on Florida's Captiva Island. Captiva is one of four quiet barrier islands on the Gulf coast of Florida—Sanibel, North Captiva, and Cayo Costa are the others—renowned as havens for boating, fishing, and seashell-collecting.

May 24, 2008

Volcanic Soil, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, 2001
Photograph by Carsten Peter

A fisheye lens captures the desolate gray of a volcanic plain on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Kamchatka is a scimitar-shaped spit of land on Russia's far east coast, home to more than a hundred volcanoes, 29 of which are active.

May 25, 2008

Cowrie Shells, Myanmar, 2005
Photograph by Nicolas Reynard

A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells. The Moken, a nomadic sea people who live among the 800 islands of the Mergui Archipelago, are divers and beachcombers, taking what they need each day from the Andaman Sea. They accumulate little and live on land only during the monsoons.

May 26, 2008

Memorial Day Salute, Minnesota, 2000
Photograph by Richard Olsenius

A Veterans of Foreign Wars honor guard stands at attention for a three-round salute in honor of Memorial Day.

First widely observed in 1868, Decoration Day, as it was originally known, was a time to honor fallen Civil War soldiers by decorating their graves. In 1971, the U.S. Congress made Memorial Day a national holiday honoring all Americans who have died in service to their country.

May 27, 2008

Desert Rainbow, Australia, 2007
Photograph by Randy Olson

A rainbow spreads over a desert town in northwest Queensland, Australia, after a monsoon soaking. Every year, a climatological flip-flop draws the rainy-season weather down from India and douses this bone-dry land in a phenomenon known locally as "the wet."

朋克绅士

怎么看不见图？全是叉/

smallfish

好美好照片，技术真好。

woshigaozhen

原帖由 青檬 于 2008-5-29 10:37 发表
如果图解是中文就好.

那您帮忙翻一下了，我英语水平太差了！

青檬

如果图解是中文就好.

yuting0921

为什么没有地震啊

snake816

一次视觉的享受，谢谢分享