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Portrait of a long necked Padaung tribe woman, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, AsiaThe women of the Padaung hill tribe wear heavy brass ornaments around their neck and limbs. These ornaments look like separate rings but are really a continuous coil of brass that can weigh anywhere from five to twenty-two kilograms and measure up to 30 meter in length. The quantity of visual rings (in reality, the length of the brass coil) is increased every year, according to the age of the woman.

Poulnabrone dolmen megalithic tomb, Burren, County Clare, Munster, Republic of Ireland (Eire), EuropeThe Burren (from Irish: Boireann, meaning - great rock) is a unique karst landscape in northwest County Clare, Ireland. The limestone area measures 300 square kilometres and is roughly enclosed within the circle comprised by the villages Ballyvaughan, Kinvarra, Gort, Corrofin, Kilfenora, Lisdoonvarna and the Black Head lighthouse. The definitive article (ie "The" Burren) has only been added to the name by academics in the last few decades as it has always been traditionally called Boireann or Boirinn in Irish and Burren in English.

Figure shows scale of the trunk of giant sequoia tree in the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Woman responsible for ensuring visitor safety and good behavior at the Viewpoint, Harrat volcanic plateau, AlUla, Medina Province, Saudi Arabia

Fruit seller in market, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Scorpio Stairway and behind the Brihat Samrat Yantra Pisces astrological sign at The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Scorpio Stairway and behind the Brihat Samrat Yantra Pisces astrological sign at The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Observation deck of The Giant Sundial, Samrat Yantra, The Supreme Instrument, at The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Scorpio Stairway and behind the Brihat Samrat Yantra Pisces astrological sign at The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

The Nadivalaya Yantra equatorial instrument at Jantar Mantar, The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India

The Nadivalaya Yantra equatorial instrument at Jantar Mantar, The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India

Observation deck of The Giant Sundial, Samrat Yantra, The Supreme Instrument, at The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Observation deck of The Giant Sundial, Samrat Yantra, The Supreme Instrument, at The Observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Students on a visit to The Observatory walk around the stone instruments in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India

Fossil ferns found in Radstock Colliery, Mariopteris carboniferous coal measures, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A Campbell Stokes Sunshine Recorder, which measures hours of sunlight at Base Orcadas, which is an Argentine scientific station in Antarctica, and the oldest of the stations in Antarctica still in operation. It is located on Laurie Island, one of the South Orkney Islands, just off the Antarctic Peninsular. The Antarctic Peninsular is one of the fastest warming places on the planet.

A mountaineer using an anemometer to measure wind speed and wind chill, in the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A mountaineer using an anemometer to measure wind speed and wind chill, in the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Panel discussion about melt down in tibet sponsored by tibetan woman's association, highlighting the future of nomads and the drastic resettelment measures they are undergoing by the chinese. And the effect of the construction of 30 storey high dams in tibet by the chinese. Michael buckley did a film "meltdown in tibet"

A measuring depth guage left high and dry in early March 2012 at Cropston Reservoir near Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A measuring depth guage left high and dry in early March 2012 at Cropston Reservoir near Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A scientific experiment by scientists from Sydney University, in the Snowy mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains has fallen to very low levels after 15 years of drought, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

A scientific experiment by scientists from Sydney University, in the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

PhD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

A workman measures the depth of the borehole at a geothermal energy project by Newcastle University, funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using dye tracing techniques as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

A plane at Kangerlussuaq airport used to fly transect flights over the Greenland ice sheet to measure air pollution from forest fires in Siberia, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using dye tracing techniques as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using dye tracing techniques as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using dye tracing techniques as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PhD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

Robert Simpson takes soil samples to measure the level of methanotropic bacteria during an experiment by scientists from Sydney University, in the Snowy mountains, New South Wales, Australia Pacific

A thermometer taking the air temperature as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq Greenland, Polar Regions

CT measures (9'8") the lower right mandible (jawbone) of an adult bull Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the mid-riff region of the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Model released.

Scientific instruments to measure the carbon balance from peat bogs which is changing due to climate change in the north Pennines at Moorhouse, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using dye tracing techniques as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

Scientific instruments to measure the carbon balance from peat bogs which is changing due to climate change in the north Pennines at Moorhouse, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

Scientific instruments to measure the carbon balance from peat bogs which is changing due to climate change in the north Pennines at Moorhouse, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Scientific instruments to measure the carbon balance from peat bogs which is changing due to climate change in the north Pennines at Moorhouse, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using dye tracing techniques as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq in Greenland, Polar Regions

PhD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

Robert Simpson conducts a scientific experiment by Sydney University, Australia, in the Snowy mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

A laser being used as part of a scientific experiment by scientists from Sydney University, in the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using a theodolite to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew taking measurements as part of a study to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew using a theodolite to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions

A scientific experiment by scientists from Sydney University, in the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

PHD scientist Ian Bartholomew's theodolite tripod being used to measure the speed of the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Polar Regions