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  • During Holy Week in Mendrisio, Christians dressed in white robes carry canvas lanterns, some over a hundred years old, The crosses are lit by candles and somberly carried through the streets for a passion play processional.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • Aerial view of the Dolomites dusted with snow under a setting full moon at sunrise. The mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbers 18 peaks that rise above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems.
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  • Twilight view of Olympic mountains and evergreens in snowy landscape.
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  • Lush woodland view with mosses, epiphytes, ferns and trees.
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  • A split-level view of mountains and coral reef.
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  • Aerial over 409-acre Cherokee Park, designed in 1891 by Frederick Law Olmsted in the east side of Louisville, Kentucky. Baringer Hill in the spring is restored with newly planted grass and trees, is a popular gathering spot. The city and the Ohio River is in the distance.
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  • Aerial view of New York's Central Park looking south to include Bethesda Fountain, the Bow Bridge spanning across the Lake to the Ramble, Sheep's Meadow and the Manhattan skyline.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Twilight view of buildings on the Stanford University campus. Frederick Law Olmsted had been designing landscape for 30 years when he came to California and drew plans for a new university. His vision was for a natural setting in the foothills was overridden by founder Leland Stanford, so Olmsted surrounded the campus in trees.
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  • View of a dramatic, stunted and twisted bare tree on Sentinel Dome.
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  • Twilight view of snow-capped Olympic mountains and foothills below.
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  • Twilight view of beach with sea stack and driftwood logs.
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  • Twilight view of Shi Shi beach and it's sea stacks.
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  • A white swan swims in view from the rustic wooden boathouse of Bass Pond with autumn foliage. The Biltmore Estate in North Carolina is one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s finest and the last landscape he created.
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  • An aerial view of a flooded river and rain storm in distance.
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  • A man seen in rear view mirror and a store through rainy a windshield.
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  • Woodland rain forest view with mosses and ferns.
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  • Woodland rain forest view with mosses, ferns, and wood sorrel.
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  • An aerial view of Australian landscape with hills, rivers, and rain.
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  • Bird's-eye view of a vineyard and train tracks running through the bustling city of Balzano in the South Tyrol province of northern Italy. Set in a valley amid steep hills, it is a gateway to the Dolomites mountain range in the Italian Alps.
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  • Dawn over the Buttes of the Cross and their shadows on rock cliffs.
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  • Factories, power plants, and rail yards crowd along the banks of the Hackensack River in the Meadowlands. the World Trade Center is visible in the far right b ackground.
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  • The kitchen counter looks like a still life of oranges, a knife and cutting boards in Convent Saint John in Val Mustair.
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  • An aerial shot along the Essequibo River near Rockstone.  Light clouds form a translucent ceiling above the rain forest and river.  This picture focuses on part of the area a team of researchers is working in to learn about fish populations andnumbers.
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  • A stretch of the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Oregon.
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  • Islam and Arab culture came to Sudan through trading centers like the ruined Red Sea and ancient port of Suakin. Sudan has long been ruled by a small circle of wealthy northerners, who, because of their Muslim faith and Arabized culture, consider themselves Arab instead of African. Islam and Arab culture came to Sudan through trading centers like the port of Suakin. Suakin was ottoman built but was possibly chipped into this perfectly round circle by the Romans.  Suakin was the main port from the 14th century until World War I and has never been excavated.
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  • A Thoroughbred mares sniffs her foal on Waterford Farm. April and May are foaling season and most are born between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. under the cover of darkness.  They are turned out into a pasture daily where foals eat dandelions and clover.
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  • Infrastructure near the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy passing 11.6 kilometers under the mountain.<br />
The tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps and was first opened in 1965. A more than seven mile cut was made through Mont Blanc mountain linking Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • Each Wednesday these friends gather for skiing and homemade wine away from the trendy ski resorts in the Swiss Alps.
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  • Mosses and ferns growing on and about a rotting fallen tree.
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  • A boy grabs his hat and his girlfriend on a roller coaster ride.
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  • Most of Sudan's wealth flows to Khartoum, into the hands of a privileged few who have imposed strict Islam on the country and are exploiting southern resources.
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  • Mont Blanc rises in the distance behind craggy peaks and ridges. Drifting morning fog lifts revealing the snow-covered White Mountain, the highest in the Alps measuring nearly 16,000 feet. Located in the watershed between valleys in Italy and France, ownership of the summit has been a subject of historical dispute. <br />
The mountain is famous for the emergence of modern alpine mountaineering  after the first ascent in 1786.
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  • Mont Blanc rises in the distance behind craggy peaks and ridges as drifting morning fog lifts revealing the "White Mountain."  It is the highest in the Alps measuring nearly 16,000 feet. Located in the watershed between valleys in Italy and France, ownership of the summit has been a subject of historical dispute. <br />
It is famous for the emergence of modern alpine mountaineering  after the first ascent in 1786. It is easily accessible because of that, unfortunately claims many climbing deaths annually.
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  • Lights blur as traffic in the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps. First opened in 1965, the more than seven mile cut through Mont Blanc mountain links Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • Lush rain forest foliage of ferns and wood sorrel.
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  • Lush rain forest setting with ferns, mosses, wood sorrel, and trees.
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  • Jim and Dana Setters enjoy their million-dollar home built inside a cave.
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  • Most of Sudan's wealth flows to Khartoum, into the hands of a privileged few who have imposed strict Islam on the country and are exploiting southern resources.
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  • A moss and scale fungus covered tree trunk.
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  • Mount Olympus and other snow-capped peaks in the Olympic mountains.
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  • Lush rain forest setting with ferns, mosses, wood sorrel, and trees.
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  • A group of Congolese women and children in a waiting room for medical care to the Pygmy tribes people.
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  • Detail of sand and pebbles on a beach with late afternoon lighting.
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  • Surf and sea stacks on a beach at twilight.
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  • Carrizo Plain is the largest remaining San Joaquin Valley grasslands as they existed in California 300 years ago. Cheat grass was introduced and has taken over much of the valley. The aggressive grass sprouts early in the season, dries out under hot summer sun and often catches fire.
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  • Spirited Thoroughbred foals romp and play in a pasture on Waterford Farm.
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  • As twilight falls on a darkened street scene in Mendrisio, candle-lit banners from the 17th and 18th century glow depicting Christ's passion. Villagers rush home to prepare for a somber processional that flows through the streets celebrating Holy Week.
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  • Aerial view of a single horse grazing in picturesque, curved-fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—easier to maintain. Lane's End is one of the most important stallion farms and breeding operations in the U.S. and also one of the top operations globally.
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  • An evening view of the snow-covered resort town of Sestriere, Italy. Olympic alpine skiing competition was held on the slopes in the Alps during the 2006 competition and now draws tourists to the quiet mountain region.
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  • Aerial view of Riverside Park, Manhattan and the Hudson River at dusk looking north.
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  • Evening bright lights illuminate the town of Martigny, winter home of  St. Bernard dogs of Alps fame. Nestled between the snow-capped mountains in the Alps, it is a junction of roads that join Switzerland with Italy and France.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy spear projecting into a rain forest scene. Spears are used for hunting in a  dense bush and forest habitat.
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  • View of the Montreal skyline from high atop a walkway through Mount Royal Park. Frederick Law Olmsted designed Mount Royal beginning in 1874 emphasizing the region's mountainous topography. He planted vegetation that exaggerated the terrain such as shade trees at the bottom of the carriage path that climbs the mountain, so  it resembled a valley. As the visitor went higher and higher the vegetation was more sparse completing the illusion of the exaggerated height.
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  • Aerial view of morning fog rising from the Dolomites, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbering 18 peaks which rise above 3,000 meters. Jagged ridges  are made of  characteristic rock consisting of fossilized coral reefs formed during the Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago) by organisms and sedimentary matter at the bottom of the ancient tropical Tethys Ocean.
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  • Aerial view of Hobet 21, a large mountaintop removal mine site was among the largest coal surface mines in West Virginia. The Lincoln County mine ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week expanding over hills and valleys, filling in Connelly Branch creek. At its peak in 2002, the mine produced 5 million pounds of coal in one year. After the company was bankrupt in 2015, the site was passed on to a conservation firm who continued mining.<br />
A lone house sits beside Mud River in the shadow of the mine's encroaching path. The town of Mud hasn’t been much of a community in the couple of decades since the post office closed, and in 1998 around 60 residents remained. They had two churches and a ball field. In early 1997, Big John, the mine’s 20-story dragline, moved above Mud and more houses, near this one, were bought and destroyed.
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  • Aerial view of mountain top removal coal mining site and V-shaped valley fills that create a moonscape of unusable land. Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region, and only a fraction of that land has been reclaimed for so-called beneficial economic use.
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  • Aerial view of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding farm with a private track to train Thoroughbred horses. Stone Farm is owned by Arthur Hancock III, a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families.  Hancock has bred, stood, and sold some of the best horses of all time and two Stone Farm-raised, co-raced colts won the Kentucky Derby.
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  • Aerial view.  Dusted in snow, a section of the 12-mile ridge line of the Grand Wash Cliffs glows at twilight. Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument marks a transition zone between the Colorado Plateau and Basin and Range Provinces. The 37,030-acre protected wilderness region includes rugged canyons, scenic escarpments, and colorful orange, sandstone buttes in northern Arizona.
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  • Shrouded in a light, misty snow, Chapin Parkway is one of seven tree-lined boulevards planned for the Buffalo, New York park system. Although other cities have implemented this kind of plan, it was in 1868 that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux tried to integrate a system of parks and parkways for the first time.<br />
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Olmsted designed the parkways so that within steps of each resident’s door was the entrance to a park-like setting. The parkways in Olmsted’s day were smoothly paved and intended solely for use of private carriages. Featuring 200-foot rights of way and flanked by several rows of trees, they were designed to provide open space for the neighborhoods through which they passed.
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  • An elevated view from a tower over the city of Turin, capital city of Piedmont in northern Italy. It is  that is known for its refined architecture and cuisine the in southern Alps. Stately baroque buildings and old cafes line Turin's boulevards and grand squares such as Piazza Castello and Piazza San Carlo. Nearby is the soaring spire of the Mole Antonelliana, a 19th-century tower housing the interactive National Cinema Museum. <br />
The first capital of united Italy in 1861, Turin went on to become one of the main economic and industrial cities in the country in the 20th century thanks to its car industry. The city is the home to Fiat, which also owns Lancia and Alfa Romeo, and Iveco trucks.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • Scenic view of the picturesque Ladin village of LaVa in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Perched on the lush green, hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara. <br />
The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, in which the western part of the Tethys Ocean, that was formerly in between the continents, disappeared millions of years ago.
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  • Taxi ride in Norilsk Siberia on our way to the Putorana Plateau with the Russian Geographic Society. The smokestacks are from Norilsk Nickel that produces 8 percent of all the pollution in Russia. The trees south of this plant are barren and dead.
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  • Woodland scene.
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  • Aerial view of Donamire Farm's fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—cheaper to maintain. A Thoroughbred horse farm doing well financially still follows the tradition with white paint.
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  • Aerial view shows snow that accentuates the contours of a flattened, freshly cut mountaintop removal site in Cabin Creek, West Virginia. Mountaintop removal is a mining practice where the tops of mountains are blasted away to expose the seams of coal underneath.<br />
As much as 500 feet or more of a mountain summit may be leveled. The earth and rock from the mountaintop is then dumped into the neighboring valleys.<br />
Analysis from a study that Appalachian Voices commissioned along with Natural Resources Defense Council  shows that 1.2 million acres have been mined for coal. “Over 500 mountains have been leveled, and nearly 2,000 miles of precious Appalachian headwater streams have been buried and polluted by mountaintop removal.”
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  • Aerial view shows snow that accentuates the contours of a flattened, freshly cut mountaintop removal site in Cabin Creek, West Virginia. Mountaintop removal is a mining practice where the tops of mountains are blasted away to expose the seams of coal underneath.<br />
As much as 500 feet or more of a mountain summit may be leveled. The earth and rock from the mountaintop is then dumped into the neighboring valleys.<br />
Analysis from a study that Appalachian Voices commissioned along with Natural Resources Defense Council  shows that 1.2 million acres have been mined for coal. “Over 500 mountains have been leveled, and nearly 2,000 miles of precious Appalachian headwater streams have been buried and polluted by mountaintop removal.”
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  • Aerial view shows snow that accentuates the contours of a flattened, freshly cut mountaintop removal site in Cabin Creek, West Virginia. Mountaintop removal is a mining practice where the tops of mountains are blasted away to expose the seams of coal underneath.<br />
As much as 500 feet or more of a mountain summit may be leveled. The earth and rock from the mountaintop is then dumped into the neighboring valleys.<br />
Analysis from a study that Appalachian Voices commissioned along with Natural Resources Defense Council  shows that 1.2 million acres have been mined for coal. “Over 500 mountains have been leveled, and nearly 2,000 miles of precious Appalachian headwater streams have been buried and polluted by mountaintop removal.”
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  • Aerial view of the Great Smoky Mountains with autumn foliage.
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  • An aerial view of West Virginia mountains in rich autumn hues.
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  • Snow accents the contours of a fresh valley fill at a coal mine site. Tops of mountains are blasted away and flattened to reveal a small seam of coal, and the rock and debris is dumped into V-shaped valleys filling in stream beds.
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  • Slurry pond filled with toxic brew of heavy metals from coal washing. Dams hold back thick sludge with heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, and lead that routinely overflow into watersheds, contaminate drinking water, and drive toxic sludge into residents’ backyards.
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  • White-barked aspens contrast fall colors in the woodlands of the San Miguel River watershed where aspens, Populus tremuloides, grow along side a diverse mixture of shrubs and brush. The San Miguel River harbors one of the longest and highest quality stretches of deciduous and evergreen forests and shrub lands  in the western United States. The riparian corridor is lush and contains numerous globally rare riparian plant communities.
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  • An aerial view of the port city of Sinop at twilight.
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  • View through a cracked windshield of a man checking his vehicle.
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  • Woodland view of trees in autumn foliage.
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  • Clouds gather at the base of Kaieteur Falls as seen from this elevated view in the rain forest.
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  • Woodland view of trees in autumn foliage.
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  • Aerial view of Hobet 21 mountain top removal coal mining site looms over one of the few remaining houses in Mud, W.V. Once this was a quiet rural community, but mining companies can legally come within 100 feet of a family cemetery and 300 feet from a home and they run 24 hours a day and seven days a week. <br />
Hobet 21 once produced about 5.2 million tons of coal, making it among the largest surface mines in the state. The Lincoln County mine expanded to fill in Connelly Branch creek, and after the company was bankrupt in 2015, the site was passed on to another firm who continued mining.<br />
The town of Mud hasn’t been much of a community in the couple of decades since the post office closed, but in 1998 around 60 residents remained. They had two churches and a ball field. In early 1997, Big John, the mine’s 20-story dragline, moved above Mud and more houses, near this one, were bought and destroyed.
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  • Aerial view of foggy Washington coastline with sea stacks.
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  • Sunlight kisses a snow-dusted peak in the Dolomite Mountains. The mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbers 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems. The characteristic rock of the Dolomites consists of fossilised coral reefs formed during the Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago) by organisms and sedimentary matter at the bottom of the ancient tropical Tethys Ocean.
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  • Early morning rays of sunlight peek over jagged peaks in the Dolomite Mountains, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems.
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  • Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding farm with a private track to train Thoroughbred horses is owned by Arthur Hancock III, a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families.  Hancock has bred, stood, and sold some of the best horses of all time and two Stone Farm-raised, co-raced colts won the Kentucky Derby. Hancock and his wife Stacie, are outspoken about the ethics of the horse racing business.
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  • Morning fog rises over a summit cross on Zinalrothorn and other mountain peaks in the Alps surrounding the Matterhorn.
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  • A 2.8 billion gallon sludge pond of toxic chemicals & heavy metals sits above a community in West Virginia. Coal slurry contains elevated levels of chlorides, sulfates, arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium. Coal companies dispose of coal cleaning process creating a slurry in massive impoundments which are hundreds of feet deep and have failed or overflowed. Coal slurry impoundments represent a major threat to public health andaquatic organisms due to potential contamination of groundwater and streams.
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  • Aerial over the parkway in the Cherokee Parks where the Cochran Hill tunnels were constructed to carry traffic under environmentally sensitive areas in order to avoid destroying Frederick Law Olmsted's planned landscape. I64 traffic flows east from downtown Louisville.
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  • Snow dusted a sequoia tree located in the southern portion of Yosemite National Park. The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias is the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite and is home to over 500 mature giant sequoias. The national park idea is rooted in the Mariposa Grove. In 1864 President Lincoln signed legislation protecting the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley for "public use, resort, and recreation." This landmark legislation holds an important place in our country's history and was enacted at a time when the nation was embroiled in the Civil War. For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government set aside scenic natural areas to be protected for the benefit of future generations. Later added to Yosemite National Park in 1906, the Mariposa Grove is a popular feature for visitors.
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  • An aerial view of a meteor impact crater near the town of Halls Creek.
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  • Morning fog rises from craggy mountain peaks in the Alps surrounding the Matterhorn. The Alps range formed when two tectonic plates of Africa dn Eurasia slowly collided millions of years ago creating some of highest peaks in Europe.<br />
Rugged Zinalrothorn and Weisshorn in the background.
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  • Hobet 21 mountain top removal coal mine grows larger and approaches a family home. Mines run 24 hours a day, seven days a week creating coal dust impossible to keep out of houses.
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  • A young daredevil bicyclist rides down a carriage road that is closed to vehicular traffic in Iroquois Park. Frederick Law Olmsted created a network of pedestrian pathways and curving roads for carriages, but might not have ever imagined this use.<br />
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Iroquois Park is known for its panoramic views and long winding roads to the top of 725-acre park in Louisville, Kentucky.  Three parks Olmstead planned in Louisville are named to honor a Native American Indian tribe—Cherokee, Shawnee and Iroquois—that once shared the dark and bloody hunting grounds of Old Kentucky.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • A glacier recedes near the Matterhorn leaving ridges and jagged peaks where there was once ice. Much of the iconic mountain was carved away by glacial erosion. <br />
The National Snow and Ice Data Center describes Matterhorn geology in "All About Glaciers." Cirques are rounded hollows or bowl shapes after a glacier has melted away. Aretes are jagged narrow rides created when two glaciers meet eroding on both sides. And horns are created when several cirque glaciers erode until all that is left is a steep, pointed peak with sharp ridge-like Arêtes leading to the top.
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  • Snowy winter view of King Ludwig II's Schloss Neuschwanstein Castle. The 19th century palace is perched on rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau in Bavaria. It was intended as a private residence but the King lived there for only 172 days. It was opened to the public shortly after his death. <br />
It is the dreamy inspiration for Cinderellas's Castle in Sleeping Beauty.
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  • Hikers watch the setting sun and stay into twilight at Delicate Arch, one of spectacular views in Utah's Arches National Park. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches and hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks.
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  • Twilight view of a lightning bolt in the clouds of a distant thunderstorm over Congolese forests.
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  • Morning fog rises over Donamire Farm's fenced pastures and pastoral setting in Lexington, Kentucky
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