Pacific Walrus at Cape Peirce
© U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Pacific Walrus utilize beaches around Cape Peirce as haulout areas on which to rest between feeding forays. These beaches...
Saddleback Caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) with Wasp Cocoons
© Thomas A. Hermann
Scientific Name(s): Acharia stimulea
Common Name(s): Saddleback caterpillar
Description: The saddleback caterpillar is about an inch long, has a purplish-brown body with a...
„Cloud wake“ Guadalupe Island
© NASA STS043-076-061
Guadalupe Island, Mexico August 1991
The elongated, volcanic island of Guadalupe (latitude 29 degrees north) is located in the Pacific Ocean approximately...
King County Creek Fire
Creator: US Fish and Wildlife Service/ Contributor: DIVISION OF NATURAL RESOURCES / Source: DI-P6270012
King County Creek Fire 2005
Clouds of smoke billow up from controlled burns
© Photographer: CPO John Kepsimelis / Location: SOUTHCOM / Date Shot: 5/19/2010Date Posted: 5/21/2010VIRIN: 100519-G-5380K-036
Clouds of smoke billow up from controlled burns taking...
Shrimp bycatch
© National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) Image ID:fish0775 www.photolib.noaa.gov
East Coast of Florida, 1969 June
The fin of a Humpback whale above the water’s surface
© John J. Mosesso
The fin of a Humpback whale above the water's surface (Hawaii 2003)
Eruption of Lascar Volcano
© University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Photo by Caspar Ammann
The large quantities of fine-grained materials thrust into the atmosphere by volcanic eruptions are of...
Antarctic ice shelf ‘hangs by a thread’
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global...
