Nature & Environment

A picture that captures, with all its phenomena, the air, water, minerals, and life (flora and fauna) - an appreciation of the world.

A lone cicada, a member of Brood X, makes its way up a screen window as a curious cat watches in cross-eyed wonderment on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake in nearby Maryland. NO RESALES

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Jim Reed, Freelance

"A BOLT FROM THE GRAY" A lone cloud-to-ground ...

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Dylan Slagle, The Times-Picayune

A yellow-crowned night heron carries a small crab ...

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Christine Prichard, BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD

RED RAIN-- A single raindrop clings to the ...

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Spencer Ainsley, Poughkeepsie Journal

These three-week-old peregrine falcons, photographed Friday (5/21/04) on ...

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Paul Beaty, Daily Herald

Staff Photographer

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Ed Hille, The Philadelphia Inquirer

A lone cicada, a member of Brood X, ...