Carla Garcia

Syrian refugees pick tomatoes in Gowera, a village not far from Aqaba, in southern Jordan. Fleeing the war in their homeland, they move around their host country finding work picking vegetables and fruit.

The Taj Mahal is reflected in a phone camera. According to government records, more than three million people visited the UNESCO World Heritage site in 2022.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature considers the Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon (Goura scheepmakeri) vulnerable to extinction, due to demand for its meat and fanciful feathers. This one was photographed at the Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden in Ahmedabad, India.

In this visualization of water on the moon, blue areas represent water ice on the lunar surface. The data, from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, shows that most of the surface ice on the moon is concentrated near the poles.

A female Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus) and her baby sit in the Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests of central Bhutan.

Citrus fruits are a natural source of vitamin C.

The 1963 discovery of the Batavia prompted Western Australia to pass laws protecting the province’s underwater archaeological heritage—a worldwide first.

So far, the underwater farm’s most visible environmental impact is a surprising one: Acting like an artificial coral reef, the garden appears to have attracted marine life to the surrounding area.

With the advent of faster ships and more powerful weapons, commercial whaling depleted fin whale populations during the 20th century. Now, an estimated 30,000 of the majestic creatures swim in the Iceland region.

High in the Peruvian Andes, the Inca ruins of Choquequirao are reachable only on foot—for now.

Twilight falls over Delicate Arch and other red rock formations in Arches National Park, one of Utah’s five national parks.