Planet Earth

National Park Service handout photo shows Mount McKinley in Alaska. Handout ./Reuters

A student from the University of Indonesia descends into Jomblang cave at Gunungkidul district. Dwi Oblo/Reuters

Local residents watch as sediment-laden flood water gushes through the Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River in Luoyang. Carlf Zhang/Reuters

A double rainbow appears after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight Nevada. Gene Blevins/Reuters

Woman stands between sunflowers near Gachenbach. Michaela Rehle/Reuters

A storm cloud begins to dump rain as it passes over the Brooklyn borough of New York. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Kuklici, known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones which resembles human beings, near Kratovo. Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters

A Panamanian Golden frog is seen inside an exhibition glass during the Golden Frog Day in the Nispero Zoo at the Valle de Anton. Carlos Jasso/Reuters

King penguin swims in pool at zoo in Zurich. Michael Buholzer/Reuters

An elephant walks in Serengeti National Park. Noor Khamis/Reuters

Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews large clouds of gas. Stringer ./Reuters

Lightning strikes over a house during a thunderstorm in the northern Swiss town of Muellheim. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Lion cub rests at Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Noor Khamis/Reuters

Statue of Virgin Mary stands in yard of house flooded by Hurricane Isaac in La Place. Lee Celano/Reuters

Houses are submerged in flood waters after a Hurricane Isaac levee breach in Braithwaite. Sean Gardner/Reuters

A Rufous-tailed hummingbird flies in a garden in San Francisco, near Bogota. Jose Gomez/Reuters

Villagers walk through a dry dam as a result of a long drought period that hit the area in Bojonegoro. Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters

The owner of a farm fights against the active front of a forest fire near Mengualde. Rafael Marchante/Reuters

The planet Venus makes a transit as a person watches the sun set over the Great Salt Lake outside Salt Lake City. Jim Urquhart/Reuters

A woman paddles on a surfboard on a sunny summer evening on Lake Zurich. Christian Hartmann/Reuters

A river runs through a valley near Moose Pond. POOL New/Reuters

The flowers of a blooming yellow Lapacho tree are seen in Canindeyu. Jorge Adorno/Reuters

Hills are reflected in waters of Yenisei River in the Siberian Taiga district outside Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Yawalapiti native holds yellow-spotted black stingray he speared in Tuatuari River during this year's Quarup in Xingu National Park. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

Oil slick flows at the base of a lone tree at Bodo creek, outside Nigeria's oil hub city of Port Harcourt. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

Dark clouds cover the sky in downtown Shanghai. Aly Song/Reuters

A Loggerhead turtle hatchling makes its way to the surf at Myrtle Beach State Park in Myrtle Beach. Randall Hill/Reuters

A Kashmiri girl rows a kayak in Dal Lake covered by aquatic plants in Srinagar. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters

Policemen gesture to a driver stranded in a car on a flooded road as waves are whipped up by typhoon Bolaven in Qingdao. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/Reuters

A forest fire burns out of control in the Vilaflor municipality in the southern part of Tenerife island, a part of Spain's Canary Islands. Santiago Ferrero/Reuters