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أروع وأجمل الصور اعام 2010

أروع وأجمل الصور اعام 2010

Dapper black-and-white razorbills (at right) and bright-beaked puffins (at left and in air* at center) find a haven on the Shiant Islands* just a few miles southeast of Lewis* Scotland. Nearly 8*000 razorbills and more than 200*000 puffins are estimated to use these islands as their breeding grounds each year.



As rain falls in Congo's NouabaléNdoki National Park* a chimp adds to the chorus of excited calls ringing through the forest



On Skye's Trotternish Peninsula* basalt pinnacles loom over the Sound of Raasay. Rising from the debris of an ancient landslide* they bear witness to the geologic upheavals that shaped these lands.



Their crumpled layers as old as the continents* the sea stacks and cliffs of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland offer jagged reminders of the forces that drove Europe* North America* and Greenland apart as the North Atlantic began to open 60 million years ago.



Floating on dreams and whispers* girls from a West Bank village cool off in the salt-laden waters of the Dead Sea. With its main tributary* the Jordan* at less than a tenth of its former volume* the inland sea has dropped some 70 feet since 1978.



Long vistas and the dry season's withered vegetation enable keen eyes to spot game miles away. From a wind-bowed tree on a ridge* a man named Mahiya peers across rough Tanzania terrain where Hadza bands range.



Inland ice fields give way along Chile's coast to a maze of islands and fjords. The weather here is rarely calm. On Byron Island* the skull of a sei whale rests in a tidal creek—until the next storm.



A Decken's sifaka peers out from a jagged stone maw. The tsingy region is a lemur hot spot: Several species inhabit the canyon forests* including the brown lemur and endemic nocturnal lemurs—the tiny mouse lemur and John Cleese's woolly lemur.



During the dry season herding activity slackens* and the Rabari people alter their routines. In Rajasthan* women turn to grueling wage labor* earning two dollars a day for digging a reservoir.



In the coastal desert of southern Peru* sprawling figures etched on the land—a spider* a monkey* a strange flying animal* and more—have inspired wonder in air travelers since first spotted in the 1920s. Now scientists believe they know why ancient people created the designs* beginning more than 2*000 years ago.

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