 - Pacific Ocean, Globe Circling Airplane, 1998
- 2001-08-01作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：14 评论：0
- [Amelia] Earhart hoped to cap her career in 1937 by becoming the first woman aviator to fly around the world and the first pilot to do so at the Equator. Retracing Amelia's globe-circling route on World Flight 97, pilot Linda Finch and her navigator
 - Wyoming, Grand Prismatic Spring, 1998
- 2001-08-02作者：：George Steinmetz 点击：10 评论：0
- The center of Yellowstone National Park's Grand Prismatic Spring steams at 199 Fahrenheit, too hot for the multicolored bacteria clustering on the cooler perimeter. But dead center is no dead zone: Billions of organisms called thermophiles flourish
 - Marshall Islands, Shark Cage, 1998
- 2001-08-03作者：：Emory Kristof 点击：13 评论：0
- Safely behind bars, photographer Bill Curtsinger and his assistant, Eric Hiner, photograph themselves by a remote control as gray reef sharks close in. 'They were so aggressive,' says Curtsinger, 'that I used my camera as a shield to keep them fro
 - Blackpool, England, Blackpool Revue, 1998
- 2001-08-04作者：：Tomasz Tomaszewski 点击：9 评论：0
- Bursting from a campy confection of tropical hues with Carmen Miranda headwear, female impersonator Simon Green belts out 'Welcome to Havana' in his 'Betty Legs Diamond' persona. The revue draws sellout crowds to Funny Girls, a club on the outr e
 - Antarctica, Kubus Mountain Perch, 1998
- 2001-08-05作者：：Gordon Wiltsie 点击：12 评论：0
- Perched near the summit of Kubus Mountain in Antarctica, climber Conrad Anker looks out over the mile-thick [1.6 kilometers-thick] ice cap that buries lesser peaks of Queen Maud Land. From Queen Maud Land, February 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - France, Mont-Saint-Michel Light Show, 1998
- 2001-08-06作者：：Bob Sacha 点击：11 评论：0
- "Light reflected from nylon thread near Mont-Saint-Michel illustrates triangulation, the method Jacques Cassini and his son César-Fran?ois used to survey 18th-century France. Starting from the Paris meridian, they sighted off high landmarks to accu
 - Venezuela, Yanomami Village Woman, 1998
- 2001-08-07作者：：Robert Caputo 点击：12 评论：0
- A dying fire fends off the dawn chill in a Yanomami village near Venezuela's border with Brazil. Harder to repel are sporadic assaults by Brazilian gold miners, who in the summer of 1993 killed at least 16 Yanomami. Many more die each year from mala
 - Vermont, Leaf Under Water, 1998
- 2001-08-08作者：：Michael S. Yamashita 点击：7 评论：0
- 'How varied the hues of the brilliantly lit water,' wrote poet and native son Leland Kinsey. 'All the rainbow colors ... into the ultraviolet and infrared.' From Vermont: Suite of Seasons, September 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - California, Mojave Desert Mastamho, 1998
- 2001-08-09作者：：George Steinmetz 点击：14 评论：0
- In pre-Columbian times, Native Americans etched the Mojave Desert with images of their creator, Mastamho, and his spirit helper, a mountain lion. Tire tracks from recreational vehicles add the scrawls of modernity. From Making Sense of the Millennium
 - India, Bengal Tiger Eye, 1997
- 2001-08-10作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：11 评论：0
- Like candles guttering in the wind, three of the worlds eight subspecies of tigers have been snuffed out. The Caspian, Bali, and Javan tigers are gone; the five surviving subspeciesBengal [such as the tiger shown here], South China, Indochinese, Suma
 - Minnesota, Wandering Wolves, 1998
- 2001-08-11作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：10 评论：0
- Wolves wandering across Minnesota's great white north have fared far better than their cousins elsewhere, partly because thick forest and the lack of roads barred trappers. With packs flourishing, problems arise, such as a growing incidence of wolve
 - Ecuador, Grazing Sea Lions, 1999
- 2001-08-12作者：：David Doubilet 点击：11 评论：0
- "Near the Plazas Islands juvenile sea lions scare up inch-long [2.5-centimeter-long] shrimps by furrowing the sandy bottom with their lower jaws. Before El Ni?o ends, many sea lions will starve, unable to follow their principal prey, lantern fish an
 - Utah, Wolf Bus, 1998
- 2001-08-13作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：12 评论：0
- In Salt Lake City a tamed wolf travels with a Colorado-based program that discourages the breeding of wolf hybrids as pets. From Return of the Gray Wolf, May 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - Philippines, Mount Pinatubo Homeless, 1998
- 2001-08-14作者：：Joanna B. Pinneo 点击：14 评论：0
- Left homeless by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, Lolita Mechado begs for money along a road within sight of Mount Arayat, a long-quiet volcano. From Unlocking the Climate Puzzle, May 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - Canada, Swimming Polar Bear, 1998
- 2001-08-15作者：：Flip Nicklin 点击：9 评论：0
- In its element swimming among ice floes near Hudson Bay, a polar bear lives up to its scientific name: Ursus maritimus , sea bear. From Polar Bears: Stalkers of the High Arctic, January 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - India, Cattle Egret and Rhino, 1997
- 2001-08-16作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：11 评论：0
- A cattle egret alights on a rhinoceros. Rhino horn is used in traditional Chinese medicine, and a single horn can bring more than [U.S.] $8,000 on the black market. ... Between 1989 and 1993, 266 rhinos in India were butchered for their horns. —Fro
 - Canada, Baffin Island Bivouac, 1999
- 2001-08-17作者：：Gordon Wiltsie 点击：14 评论：0
- Home Steep Home: Far from solid ground the climbers pitched a hanging camp for a final bivouac, bolting tents and gear to the wall. An overhang shielded them from falling debris. All swore they slept soundly. From Hitting the Wall: First Ascent of a
 - Venezuela, Yanomami Girl, 1998
- 2001-08-18作者：：Robert Caputo 点击：16 评论：0
- Much has changed along this river [the Orinoco] since Columbus first sighted its delta in 1498. But much remains the same. Near its remote rain forest source, a Yanomami girl looks out on a world little altered for hundreds of generations. From The O
 - Australia, Halls Creek Wildfire, 1998
- 2001-08-19作者：：R. Ian Lloyd 点击：11 评论：0
- One lightning bolt or stray cigarette butt can turn the outback into an inferno at the end of the dry season. This blaze west of Halls Creek was so hot I thought my scalp had melted. Soon the monsoon would sweep in, dousing the flames, but not me. I
 - Antarctica, Rakekniven Free Climb, 1998
- 2001-08-20作者：：Gordon Wiltsie 点击：12 评论：0
- Coming to grips with unreliable rock, Conrad [Anker] gropes for solid handholds while free climbing Rakekniven. A veneer of weathered granite covers this and other parts of the tower, often sloughing off under body weight. Queen Maud Land, February
 - Aswan, Egypt, Ancient Measuring Well, 1998
- 2001-08-21作者：：Bob Sacha 点击：13 评论：0
- Several stories down but still sunlit, the waters of an ancient well near Aswan, Egypt, mark the arrival of the summer solstice. In the third century B.C. in Alexandria, the Greek scholar Eratosthenes relied on both geometry and reports of the sun's
 - Utah, Prairie Dog Fight, 1998
- 2001-08-22作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：13 评论：0
- Explosive confrontation: Two marked Utahs duel for territory and females; the defender, at left, won this round. Skirmishes are sometimes bloody but rarely fatal. From The Vanishing Prairie Dog, April 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - Australia, Animal Crossing, 1998
- 2001-08-23作者：：R. Ian Lloyd 点击：15 评论：0
- A camel, a wombat, and a kangaroo cross the road: It sounds like the setup for a joke, but there was nothing funny about the Eyre Highway. The main link between Western and South Australia, the route stretches for 800 miles [1290 kilometers] across t
 - Delaware Bay, Delaware Horseshoe Crabs, 1999
- 2001-08-24作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：16 评论：0
- Horseshoe crabs were once ground up by the millions for fertilizer. Now their blood is used to detect contamination in drugs and medical equipment. Humans have begun to grasp the staggering variety and value of life on Earth just as we push many spe
 - Maryland Piedmont, Salamander Larvae, 1999
- 2001-08-25作者：：George Grall 点击：15 评论：0
- Bursting their balloons, larvae of the spotted salamander hatch into a green broth of algae, entering the vernal pool equipped with budlike forelimbs and external gills. Voracious eaters, the larvae will consume anything they can swallow, including t
 - Hawaii, Mauna Ulu Molten Rock, 1975
- 2001-08-26作者：：Robert W. Madden 点击：14 评论：0
- Hawaii's Mauna Ulu spouts a fountain of molten rock. A geologist, approaching cautiously from the upwind side, records the volcano's tantrum. From Hawaii, Island of Fire and Flowers, March 1975, National Geographic magazine
 - Indonesia, Orangutan, 1998
- 2001-08-27作者：：Tim Laman 点击：14 评论：0
- Deep in Borneo, a male orangutan we [anthropologist Cheryl Knot and assistants] call Jari Manis feeds on wild ginger stems as he keeps an eye on a female he's been shadowing. My team of assistants and I track the elusive apes from dawn to dusk, when
 - Antarctica, Antarctica Dry Valley, 1998
- 2001-08-28作者：：Maria Stenzel 点击：20 评论：0
- On a continent of ice these places are bare. On a restless planet they are still. More like Mars than Earth, Antarctica's Dry Valleys draw scientists to study primitive life-forms and to look through the window that this changeless landscape opens i
 - Greenland, Greenland Shark Swim, 1998
- 2001-08-29作者：：Nick Caloyianis 点击：21 评论：0
- Slow and spooky, an 11-foot [3.4-meter] shark cruises past a submerged ice ledge where seals often rest. Never before photographed beneath Arctic ice, the Greenland shark, whose scientific name, Somniosus microcephalus , means 'small-headed sleeper,
 - Romania, Moldovita Nun, 1998
- 2001-08-30作者：：Alexandra Avakian 点击：19 评论：0
- Pious devotion guides a nun at Moldovita, a Romanian Orthodox Church convent built in 1532 near Vatra Moldovitei. Artwork depicted the historical sagas and biblical tales for the illiterate faithful. Though communist authorities did not ban religion,
 - Venezuela, Dry River Caiman, 1998
- 2001-08-31作者：：Robert Caputo 点击：26 评论：0
- Abandoned by the river that once fed it, a pond-become-pavement affords a caimana cousin to the alligatorno refuge from the desiccating heat of the dry season. On this sunbaked plain, which sits only 8° north of the Equator, the soil temperature can
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