A large stand of Arctic cotton (Eriophorum callitrix) in Denali National Park, Alaska, United States of America

Hiking along the Aletsch Glacier, Konkordia Platz, UNESCO world heritage Jungfrau - Aletsch - Bietschhorn region, Valais, Switzerland

View toward Konkordia Platz, Aletsch glacier, UNESCO world heritage Jungfrau - Aletsch - Bietschhorn region, Valais, Switzerland

View from Mount Eggishorn to the Aletsch Glacier, UNESCO world heritage Jungfrau - Aletsch - Bietschhorn region, Valais, Switzerland

Firewood, Bio-Bio region, Chile, South America

Firewood, Bio-Bio region, Chile, South America

Mannheim Bio Fuel, biodiesel production company, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Afro-Ecuadorians in the lowland rainforest near Esmeraldas on the western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Bosque Mindo-Nambillo a protected reserve of sub-tropical cloud forest at 2500' on western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador

Pacific coastal rainforest on the western slopes of the Andes in the Choco Bio-region Afro-Ecuadorians cutting balsa trunks, North of Quito, Highlands, Ecuador