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Residential development
Hundreds of residential homes are seen in the southwestern suburbs of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The city’s metro area is home to roughly two million people.
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Larung Gar
Hundreds of dwellings - all painted in a vibrant red color - make up Larung Gar, the world’s largest Buddhist institute. The settlement is located in a remote valley in Tibet and contains a population that has grown to approximately 20,000 people since its founding in 1980. In recent years, the Chinese government has started to systemically demolish homes and force thousands of occupants out of Larung Gar, claiming the settlement is too crowded and unsafe. They have also closed off the area to all foreigners. Many Tibetans fear the erosion of their language, traditions, and ways of worship in the midst of these incursions by the Chinese government.
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Port of Long Beach
Shipping containers are loaded into a massive cargo ship (1200+ feet) at the Port of Long Beach — the second-busiest container port in the United States. The seaport generates approximately $100 billion in trade, employs more than 316,000 people, and along with the Port of Los Angeles to which it is connected, serves as the single largest source of air pollution in the metropolitan LA area.
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Hutt Lagoon
Hutt Lagoon is a massive lake in Western Australia that gets its pink color from a particular type of algae - Dunaliella salina - that grows in the water. The lagoon contains the world’s largest microalgae production plant, where the algae is farmed for its beta-carotene, which is then used as a food‑coloring agent and source of Vitamin A in other products.
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the border between Ontario, Canada and the United States. Horseshoe Falls is seen here. The falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet (50 m). The Maid of the Mist, also visible here, is a boat that has carried passengers into the rapids below the falls since 1846.
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Larsen C Ice Shelf Crack
On July 12, 2017 it was reported that an iceberg — roughly twice the size of Luxembourg — separated from the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This photograph from January shows a massive fracture in the ice that measured more than 100 feet wide and over 100 miles long at the time. It is estimated that this chunk weighs roughly one trillion tons and the break could lead to a rise in global sea levels by roughly four inches (10 centimeters).
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Piraeus Marina
The Piraeus Marina is located on the Bay of Zea and is surrounding by gridded streets in the Greek city of Piraeus. The city was developed in the early 5th century BC, when it was selected to serve as the port destination of classical Athens. Now, the city contains the second largest passenger port in the world, which services about 20 million passengers every year.
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Burj Khalifa
Standing at 2,717 feet (828m), the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE is the tallest building in the world (and casts quite a long shadow!). The design of the 163-floor structure is an abstraction of the Hymenocallis, a type of desert flower that has long petals extending from its center. The building has been very well received since it opened in 2010; however, its construction was very controversial as it was built primarily by workers from South Asia and East Asia who earned low wages and were housed in abysmal conditions.
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Great Pyramids of Giza
The Great Pyramids of Giza are located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Dating back to 2580 BC, the Great Pyramid, the largest structure at the site, is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world and the only one to remain largely intact. With an estimated 2,300,000 stone blocks weighing from 2 to 30 tons each, the 481 foot pyramid was the tallest structure in the world for more than 3,800 years.
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Woodford Bay
Sailboats are moored in Woodford Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Thousands of boats like the ones seen here are stationed in the channels and around the islands in the greater Sydney area. Wherever you are in the world, we hope you have a peaceful, fantastic weekend!
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Sun City
Sun City, Arizona, USA opened as a retirement community on January 1, 1960. That day, more than 100,000 people showed up to see the new development, resulting in a cover story in Time magazine. The community was built on the old ghost town of Marinette and covers 14.6 square miles. Today, Sun City has a population of roughly 37,000 people.
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Sand patterns in Salta
Sand patterns are seen here in Salta, Argentina. Salta is situated 3780 feet above sea level in the northwest part of the country. The palette of colors in the sand is caused for a variety of reasons. The red occurs from large amounts of iron in the sand that have broken down, and stained the sand a rust color. The black presumably occurs following volcanic activity. The white seen in this Overview is snow covering the tops of the mountains.
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Bingham Canyon Mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine is an open-pit mine in Salt Lake City, Utah. At 2.5 miles wide and 0.6 miles deep, it is the largest man made excavation in the world. On April 10th, 2013, a landslide took place at the pit that was the single largest non-volcanic landslide to ever happen in North America. The amount of debris that fell into the mine was roughly equivalent to 1/6 of the volume of all humans alive on Earth.
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Lamberts Point Pier 6
Train cars filled with coal are stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Operated by the Norfolk Southern corporation, Lamberts Point Pier 6 is the largest coal-loading station in the Northern Hemisphere and serves at the temporary depot for the company’s fleet of 23,000 coal cars.
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The Kufra Basin
The Kufra Basin in the Sahara Desert of Libya is one of the most heavily irrigated oases in the world. The Libyan government enacted a plan in the 1970’s to enable agricultural cultivation in the desert by extracting water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a non-renewable source of fossil water located beneath the surface. Because the area receives only one inch of rain per year, the aquifer is now nearly dried up.
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Mexico City
With a population of 21.2 million people, Greater Mexico City is second-largest metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere. The Nezahualcoyotl District is seen here. By the 1990s Mexico City had become infamous as one of the world's most polluted cities, but has improved the air quality of the city drastically since to be roughly comparable to Los Angeles.
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Fruit orchards
Fruit trees swirl on the hills of Huelva, Spain. The climate here is ideal for this growth with an average temperature of 17.8° C (64° F) and a relative humidity between 60% and 80%.
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Superkilen
Superkilen is a public park in the Nørrebro district of the city. The colorful space aims to celebrate global diversity, designed as a universal exposition with ideas and artifacts gathered from over 50 countries around the world.
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Warracknabeal
Warracknabeal is a town located in the Australian state of Victoria, roughly 205 miles north-west of Melbourne. The small town of 2,745 people has a yearly Easter tradition called the “Y-Fest” that features activities such as a street parade, golf tournament, and waterski spectacular.
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Alta Wind Energy Center
Located in the Tehachapi Mountains of California, the Alta Wind Energy Center is the largest wind farm in the US, and third largest onshore farm in the world. The facility plans to reduce carbon dioxide emission by more then 5.2 million metric tons over the next 25 years, which is roughly the same as eliminating 446,000 cars off the road.
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