1. The eruption of Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily in the sky
could be seen from the cloud giant ring diameter of more than 100 meters. การปะทุขึ้นของภูเขาไฟ เอ็ทนา บนเกาะซิซิลี สาธารณรัฐอิตาลี สร้างเมฆวงแหวนยักษ์ขึ้นในท้องฟ้า ขนาดเส้นผ่านศูนย์กลางยาวกว่า 100 เมตร
This is a compilation of images in which photographers have captured the beauty of our world, along with great moments among the living things we share this planet with. Most are from the reoccurring photo gallery The Natural World, in which photos of animals and our environment are selected from the many wire service photos moved throughout the year from all over the world. Many great photos of animals are taken in zoos, but this entry mostly shows creatures in their own habitat. -Leanne Burden Seidel(53 photos total)
A lenticular cloud formed as high winds blew over the rugged Crazy Mountains in Montana. Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes. (James Woodcock, Billings Gazette via Associated Press)
Walker the polar bear (right) met with new male companion Arktos at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland. It is hoped that 4-year-old Arktos, and the year younger, slightly smaller Walker will establish a relationship of friendly competitiveness. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #
A coral on a reef in the Kenting National Park spawned in Taiwan. Coral spawning usually takes place by the 23d day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which fell on April 13 this year. (Tsai Yung-chun/Reuters)#
A giant panda sat in a tree at a breeding center in Dujiangyan, China. The giant panda is among six young giant pandas which were bred in captivity and were released as a group of "pioneers" into an enclosed forest in Sichuan province. ( China Daily/Reuters)#
Seasonal winter storms lashed boats at anchor off Cape Town's Sea Point promenade. The Cape Peninsula has long been known as the "Cape of Storms" among sailors whose wrecked vessels have been scattered along the coastline at the southern tip of Africa for 400 years. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters) #
A damselfly rested on a turtle in a lake in the outskirts of Cali, Colombia. Colombia has the second largest biodiversity in the world. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Image#
Monkeys enjoyed a cold bath in a pond during a hot day in a rural neighborhood north of Bangkok. The Thai capital is seeing its hottest average temperatures in 30 years. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters) #
Elephants gathered during the night to drink at a watering hole in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. Seeing a dire situation grow worse, the animal conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) enlisted religious leaders in the fight to end the slaughter of Africa's elephants and rhinos by poachers, hoping that religion can help save some of the world's most majestic animals. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press) #
Incandescent materials, ash and smoke were spewed from the Popocatepetl Volcano as seen from the Santiago Xalitxintla, in the Mexican central state of Puebla. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)#
Fall colors and the sunlit web of a labyrinthine orb weaver spider created an interesting mosaic in Fredericksburg, Va. (Dave Ellis/The Free Lance-Star via Associated Press) #
A red fox sat in the grass as a magpie dived toward it in a field east of Walla Walla, Wash. (Jeff Horner/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via Associated Press)#
A male wild leopard climbed a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, West Bengal, India. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/GettyImages ) #
A penguin swam off Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro. Penguins arrive from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes that melt in the vicinity of Brazil's shore, and the birds wash up on Rio beaches every winter. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)#
Swirls of green and red appeared in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere. (David Cartier, Sr./NASA via Reuters ) #
An Indian Myna held a grasshopper for its chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. (Parivartan Sharma/Reuters)#
A tasselled wobbegong shark was seen lying on the substratum with the head of a brown-banded bamboo shark in its mouth during an underwater visual census of fishes on the fringing reef of Great Keppel Island on the Great Barrier Reef. ( Reuters)#
Surface melt water rushed along the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet through a supra-glacial stream channel, southwest of Ilulissat. Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, and that's added less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels, a new giant scientific study says. The acceleration of the melting, especially in Greenland, has ice scientists worried. (Ian Joughin/Associated Press)#
A whale shark swam beside a diver in the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos National Park, Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the University of California - Davis, made satellite tagging of whale sharks in order to understand this species locally, regionally and globally in the migration process patterns. (Jonathan Green/Galapagos National Park via Reuters)#