On Shengshan Island, east of Shanghai, China, only a handful of people still live in a village that was once home to more than 2,000 fishermen.
Source: The Abandoned Fishing Village of Houtouwan - The Atlantic
On Shengshan Island, east of Shanghai, China, only a handful of people still live in a village that was once home to more than 2,000 fishermen.
Source: The Abandoned Fishing Village of Houtouwan - The Atlantic
Nearly three million survivors, many in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas, still need urgent help according to a U.N. report, several months after massive twin earthquakes struck Nepal, killing more than 8,800 people, injuring more than 22,000.
Source: Nepal, Three Months After the Earthquakes - The Atlantic
Since 1992, Red Bull has been organizing Flugtag (“flying day”) events around the world, where participants build and pilot homemade flying machines off a 28-foot-high flight deck above a body of water. The aerodynamic qualities of many of the creatively built aircraft are questionable, and most do not so much fly as... plummet.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an American scientific agency with roots that reach back to 1807. Over the years, NOAA has amassed a sizable library of photographs, some of which I've selected here.
Source: Images of the Ocean Blue: Photographs from NOAA - The Atlantic
People and animals trying to beat the heat across the Northern Hemisphere.
Source: Hot Summer Days - The Atlantic
Today, simply, I present recent images of the Earth, as seen from above. Shot from as close as a few hundred feet away, or as far as a million miles, the variety and beauty of our home planet depicted in these photos continues to amaze.
On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
Source: 70th Anniversary of the First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Nuclear Test - The Atlantic
The massive ice mountains of Pluto, Bastille Day in Paris, the Pan Am Games in Toronto, brush fires above Athens, celebrating a nuclear deal in Tehran, a Jaffa candy race in New Zealand, and much more.
Photographs of Muslims observing Ramadan around the world, from Japan to Iran, Pakistan to Italy, and more
After traveling nearly 3 billion miles over the past nine and a half years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is within hours of its rendezvous with Pluto.
Source: The Voyage of New Horizons: Jupiter, Pluto, and Beyond - The Atlantic