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[h=2]Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland [/h] Photograph by Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos The volcano Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland, just before dawn on April 23, 2010: The worst is over. Lava flows freely. Earlier, as it punched through the ice cap, it triggered a meltwater flood that destroyed roads and farms, and a steam explosion that hurled ash into the stratosphere, stopping air traffic for a week.
[h=2]Winter, Pakistan [/h] Photograph by Kamraan Saleem, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos Winter in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
[h=2]Green Sea Turtle, Red Sea [/h] Photograph by Dmitry Marchenko, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos Gaze of a green turtle. South Egypt, Red Sea. Taken November 27, 2010.
[h=2]Aurora Borealis, Svalbard [/h] Photograph by Max Edin, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos I was visiting Longyearbyen, Svalbard, way up over the Arctic Circle, when I decided one clear night to go out and photograph the stars. After I made it to the location I'd chosen and had set up my exposure, the most beautiful aurora borealis show I've ever witnessed happened right overhead. The full moon at the time helped brighten up the foreground, creating this image.
[h=2]Catamount Mountain, Adirondacks [/h] Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos Conifers green the crevices of Catamount Mountain while the forest below is in its last incandescence before winter.
[h=2]Storm Chasing [/h] Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos With a 1,600-pound camera he calls the Kahuna in tow, storm chaser Tim Samaras is on the hunt for an elusive shot of a lightning strike the moment it is born.
[h=2]Seamount, Cortes Bank [/h] Photograph by Brian Skerry, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos An orange sheephead, slender wrasses, and other fish swim through a forest of coralline algae and kelp stalks swaying in the current around Cortes Bank. "The communities you find on seamounts are like oases in otherwise deep water," says Bruce Robison, senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.
[h=2]Frosted Trees, Alaska [/h] Photograph by Susan Stevenson, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos I took this photo from my back deck in North Pole, Alaska. It was early evening and the full moon was moving through the sky, illuminating the frosted trees and turning the sky cobalt blue.
[h=2]Kali Gandaki River, Nepal [/h] Photograph by Cory Richards, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos Climbers and scientists follow a trail above the Kali Gandaki River in Nepal's remote Mustang region. More than 60 feet above are rows of unexplored man-made caves dug centuries ago. There may be thousands in the region.
[h=2]Lizard, Cuba [/h] Photograph by Lee Daubney, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos Peering into a pineapple plant while on a trek within Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, Cuba, I was surprised to find a new subject.
[h=2]Muckross Lake, Ireland [/h] Photograph by Anthony Byrne, My Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos Captured on Muckross Lake as the first green shoots appear on a day of typical weather in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
[h=2]Prayer Flags, Wyoming [/h] Photograph by Aaron Huey, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Nine-year-old Wakinyan Two Bulls places prayer flags in a tree near Mato Tipila ("bear lodge"), or Devils Tower, in Wyoming. The story of the Oglala—their spirituality and their fight to remedy old wrongs—goes well beyond the Pine Ridge Reservation.
[h=2]Gannet, North Atlantic [/h] Photograph by Andrew Parkinson This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Long tied to maritime cultures, gannets are flourishing today in crowded colonies around the North Atlantic.
[h=2]Lighthouse Reef, Belize [/h] Photograph by Brian Skerry, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Lighthouse Reef atoll off Belize is one of the most seaward outliers of the Mesoamerican Reef.
[h=2]Lightning, Oklahoma [/h] Photograph by Mitch Dobrowner This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Near Guymon, Oklahoma Most storms move fast. This one crept over a farming community for more than an hour, bristling with electricity. "No two storms are the same," says James LaDue, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. "No two skies are either."
[h=2]Beachgoer, Rio de Janeiro [/h] Photograph by David Alan Harvey, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features On sunny days a million people with their sea of umbrellas may crowd Rio’s beaches.
[h=2]Caves, Nepal [/h] Photograph by Cory Richards, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features To reach a series of caves dug into a cliff 155 feet above the valley floor, Matt Segal scales a rock face so fragile it often breaks off to the touch. Linked by a ledge, the 800-year-old caves, empty now, may once have stored manuscripts.
[h=2]Snake River Headwaters, Wyoming [/h] Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic with aerial support by Lighthawk This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Snake River Headwaters
Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming
387.5 miles protected since 2009
[h=2]Dragon’s Blood Trees, Socotra [/h] Photograph by Mark W. Moffett, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features A full moon rises over the Diksam Plateau, where dragon's blood trees grow in scattered groves. The limestone of Socotra's interior plains formed when ancient seas covered the land.
