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An extravaganza of lights twinkle in this harbor town of 7.4 million people. One year, Roppongi Hills Galleria created a...
15/08/2023

An extravaganza of lights twinkle in this harbor town of 7.4 million people. One year, Roppongi Hills Galleria created a ground-level Milky Way of lights. The city center, crowned by a giant Swarovski crystal tree, bustles with carolers, as Victoria Harbour twinkles in the distance. Lunar New Year—China’s traditional family holiday—extends the spectacle with fireworks and more decorations.

A Gabonese man dances in a Bwiti ceremony in Libreville. In creating a fair trade iboga program, Gabon hopes to preserve...
15/07/2023

A Gabonese man dances in a Bwiti ceremony in Libreville. In creating a fair trade iboga program, Gabon hopes to preserve its natural and cultural heritage. Skyrocketing demand puts traditions at risk as poachers plunder national parks and buy up iboga stocks from villagers. Much of it is smuggled into Cameroon, where it’s sold online to foreign buyers for up to thousands of dollars per pound.

Zoltan Takacs, a National Geographic grantee, places a scorpion into a vial to transport it out of the jungle at a camps...
05/07/2023

Zoltan Takacs, a National Geographic grantee, places a scorpion into a vial to transport it out of the jungle at a campsite in Chu Yang Sin National Park in Vietnam. He and Vietnamese researchers were in the park searching for venomous scorpions, snakes, snails, frogs, and spiders to extract deadly toxins and use them to study new pain medications and life saving drugs.

Molten rock bypassed the home of Annabell Gerhards, but when she returned after an evacuation, she found her swimming po...
26/06/2023

Molten rock bypassed the home of Annabell Gerhards, but when she returned after an evacuation, she found her swimming pool filled with ash. Sharp, sandy grains of volcanic ash rained down across the region, burying many houses and roads.

A story in the December 2018 issue documented the lives of some of the 10 million Filipinos who work abroad to send home...
15/06/2023

A story in the December 2018 issue documented the lives of some of the 10 million Filipinos who work abroad to send home to their families. In this photo, singers and chefs headed to work on cruise ships gather in a swimming pool for safety-at-sea training.

A child looks on as his mom works on her broken-down truck in Ruby Valley, Nevada.
07/06/2023

A child looks on as his mom works on her broken-down truck in Ruby Valley, Nevada.

"The snow made an abrupt line on the mountains today, in the Oregon Coast Range," writes Your Shot photographer Joan Mar...
31/05/2023

"The snow made an abrupt line on the mountains today, in the Oregon Coast Range," writes Your Shot photographer Joan Martelli. "The air was so crisp and clear, you could pick out all the individual trees on the slope across the valley from us."

Burmese King Anawrahta began incorporating nat (ancient spirit) worship into Buddhist temples and practices in the 11th ...
25/05/2023

Burmese King Anawrahta began incorporating nat (ancient spirit) worship into Buddhist temples and practices in the 11th century. Thirty-seven nat statues, depicted in their human forms, stand at the base of the 777 steps that lead to the doors of Taung Kalat, a small temple dramatically perched on the peak of a 557-foot-high volcanic plug in central Myanmar.

Red squirrels argue in Ontario.
15/05/2023

Red squirrels argue in Ontario.

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