A massive ice island breaks free of the Petermann
Glacier in north-west Greenland. The giant iceberg, 12.5 sq miles (32 sq
km) could be seen drifting down the fjord, away from the floating ice
tongue from which it had calved
This image captured by the Pleiades
satellite shows the island of Mont Saint Michel and its surrounding bay
in north-west France. Mont Saint Michel was a tidal island, surrounded
by water at high tide, accessible by foot only when the water recedes.
In the late 1800s, the causeway was raised to make it accessible from
the mainland at all times. The image shows where the water meets the mud
flats, with multiple channels weaving through the mud
Wildfires, Valencia, Spain: as water-bombing
aircraft flew overhead, about 3,000 residents were forced to evacuate
their homes. The fires followed one of the driest winters in decades,
and raged amid temperatures in excess of 40C, low humidity, and high
winds. Fires blew thick smoke towards the north-east, and smoke from the
fire south-west of Valencia passed directly over the city
Land of lakes, Canada: during the last Ice Age,
nearly all of Canada was covered by massive ice sheets. Thousands of
years later, the landscape of Nunavut Territory — 'our land' in the
Inuktitut language — still shows the scars of that icy earth mover.
Surfaces that were scoured by retreating ice and then flooded by Arctic
seas are now dotted with millions of lakes, ponds, and streams. The
image above shows wetlands in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut Territory.
Water is various shades of blue, green, tan, and black, depending on
the amount of suspended sediment (silt and clay) and phytoplankton.
Vegetated land is red
Three tropical cyclones spinning in the eastern
Pacific Ocean. Tropical storm Daniel is farthest west, followed by
hurricane Emilia, and developing low pressure system 98E
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