View the Wildlife Photographer of the Year images from the current and previous years' competitions. These images were awarded for their artistic composition, technical innovation and truthful interpretation of the natural world.
Asia has become a major global economic power in recent years and is poised to play a leading role in capital and energy resources. Yet restrictions on technology and trade, coupled with the challenge of reducing carbon emissions, may hamper that growth. As this McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report suggests, with new strategic direction and continued transformation, Asia can unlock more opportunities for growth, just like these verdant blooming flowers.
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Barn swallows, small birds with blue backs and wings, return year after year to the same nest sites. German photographers Hermann Hirsch and Jan Lessmann knew the birds would come back to an old farm in the eastern part of the country, so they made a trip to try and image the creatures.
Good things are happening at Nikon right now. They continue to bring innovative, game changing photography equipment to the market. Just take a look at my blog posts from the last year highlighting the lenses and cameras they have introduced. Two new wildlife/sports lenses, the 400mm F2.8 and 600mm F4 Z with built in teleconverters, have changed the way I shoot. They cost a lot, but Cree and I spend much of our year photographing wildlife, especially birds, so they are invaluable.
Sea ice data is updated daily, with a one-day lag. The orange line in extent and concentration images (left and middle) and the gray line in the time series (right) indicate 1981 to 2010 average extent for the day shown. The graph also includes lines for selected earlier years, for comparison. Learn about update delays and other problems which occasionally occur in near-real-time data. Read about the data.
The average ice extent for March 2024 is 14.87 million square kilometers (5.74 million square miles), fifteenth lowest in the passive microwave satellite record (Figure 1a). As of the beginning of April 2024, Arctic sea ice extent had dropped by about 278,000 square kilometers (107,000 square miles) below the March 14 maximum (Figure 1b). Extent is notably low only in the Sea of Okhotsk, Barents Sea, Labrador Sea, and Davis Strait. Extent is near average in the Bering Sea, counter to the pattern of below average extent in this region characterizing many recent years.
Including 2024, the downward linear trend in March sea ice extent is 37,000 square kilometers (14,000 square miles) per year, or 2.4 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average. Since 1979, Arctic sea ice loss in March is 1.68 million square kilometers (649,000 square miles), which is roughly equivalent to the size of the state of Alaska or the country of Iran.
With the passage of the seasonal maximum sea ice extent, it is appropriate to provide an updated assessment of sea ice age. Older, multiyear ice (ice that has survived at least one melt season) is generally thicker and more resistant to melting completely during the upcoming melt season than first-year ice, which represents ice growth of the previous autumn and winter. As seen in the figure, first-year ice dominates, as it has for the past several years. The extent of multiyear ice is lower than last year, mostly because of less second-year ice (one- to two-year-old ice that has survived two melt seasons), but it is within the ranges that have been seen since 2008. The oldest ice (greater than four-years old) has been at very low levels since 2012 and is slightly lower than last year.
Antarctic sea ice extent expanded slowly in mid-March after reaching its summer minimum extent on February 21, lagging behind many of the years in the satellite record and ending the month tied with several other years for third lowest. Ice extent is particularly low in the eastern Ross Sea and western Amundsen Sea region, and in the eastern Bellingshausen Sea. Air temperatures have been near-average over much of the sea ice areas, but up to 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) above average in the eastern Ross Sea and western Amundsen Sea region, and below average off the coast of Adelie Land by about the same amount.
Over the past week or so I have been photographing quite a few wintering Bald Eagles of various ages, from one year old to adults, and I decided to write about the different growth stages seen in their plumage. Bald Eagles take about 5.5 years to mature to the typical white head and tail and solidly dark chocolate brown body, legs and wing feathers of an adult.
The bald eagle above is one year old and is a dark brown over all, the chest and back are a bit lighter. The eyes are a dark brown and the bill is dark with some yellow. A one year old eagle will show some white on the underside of the wings in the axillaries and coverts.
A two year old bald eagle has some white mottling on the chest, there is more yellow developing on the bill and the underside of the wings show extensive white feathers. The top of the head is a more golden brown than a one year old eagle exhibits and the eyes are a lighter shade of brown.
The four year old bald eagle above looks more like an adult, the head is nearly white with some paler brown feathers intermingling with the white. The eyes are much paler than they are when they are just yearlings. By now the bill is a solid yellow and does not show the dark tip at all of the younger stages. The tails show more white above and below. The body and wing feathers are nearly all dark including the under side of the wings.
Adult bald eagles have solid white tails plus the head and neck are also white. The eyes are very pale, almost white and the bill is a solid yellow and a bit brighter than a four year old bald eagle. The plumage of the chest, back and wings are now varying shades of dark brown.
So, there you have it, a simple guide to aging Bald Eagles by their plumage development, legs and their bills with images showing the age progression. More precise aging can certainly be done by molt of the primaries and remiges but this is intended to be a simple guide.
Amazing to be able to see what the eagles look like at each age from 1 to 5 years! Very helpful and informative to actually see each age progression! Thank you so much for sharing, providing and explaining each photo at each year of age. Jan Ferguson
Hershell, Googling albino Bald Eagle did bring up some images of leucistic eagles so it is possible. You might want to contact someone from a local bird watching group and see if anyone else has reported it. It would be an awesome bird to see.
Each year, SNMMI chooses an image that best exemplifies the most promising advances in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. The state-of-the-art technologies captured in these images demonstrate the capacity to improve patient care by detecting disease, aiding diagnosis, improving clinical confidence and providing a means of selecting appropriate treatments. This year, the SNMMI Image of the Year was chosen from more than 1,500 abstracts submitted for the meeting.
Portfolio Award Winner: The ancient mariner. Pangatalan Island, Palawan, the Philippines. The tri-spine horseshoe crab has survived for more than 100 million years but now faces habitat destruction and overfishing for food and for its blood, used in the development of vaccines. Laurent Ballesta/Wildlife Photographer of the Year hide caption
The London Museum of History, which runs the prestigious contest, revealed the winning images at a ceremony on Tuesday. It said an international panel of expert judges chose the 19 category winners out of 49,957 entries from 95 countries, based on their originality, narrative, technical excellence, and ethical practice.
This is actually his second win, which contest organizers say is unprecedented. He took home the grand title in 2021 for his images of mating camouflage groupers in French Polynesia. Both portfolios focused on endangered species in protected waters.
Tri-spine horseshoe crabs have survived for more than 100 million years. Fossil evidence from Lebanon shows they were scuttling through warm waters at the same time dinosaurs roamed the land and skies.
The Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award went to 17-year-old Carmel Bechler of Israel for his dynamic shot of barn owls in an abandoned roadside building. He used natural light and long exposure times to capture the light from passing traffic.
All of the images will be on display as part of an exhibit at London Natural History Museum that opens Friday. It will tour across the U.K. and to other countries including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Singapore before it closes in late June 2024.
Underwater Winner: Hippo nursery. Kosi Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. A hippopotamus and her two offspring resting in the shallow clear-water lake. Hippos produce one calf every two to three years. Mike Korostelev/Wildlife Photographer of the Year hide caption
The first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released July 12, 2022. In the year since then, the deep-space imaging probe has captured some of the most remarkable stellar photography humanity has every laid eyes on.
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Instruments aboard the spacecraft are so sensitive that the heat and electricity from any type of onboard observational cameras would have created interference. So, aside from the image of a folded-up JWST floating away from its launch vehicle's payload bay, these black and white mirror selfies are our only images of the telescope in space.
This is another one of Webb's early images. Infrared yellow-brown hued bands of storms layering Jupiter's atmosphere are seen alongside the planet's famous Great Red Spot shining in white, alongside Europa, one of the gas giant's several moons. It's not the most vibrant photo of Jupiter we have seen, but it's another picture with some significance: The image was captured during JWST's commissioning period, while the telescope's systems were being calibrated. 0852c4b9a8
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