Menec menhirs in Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, France, Europe

Kermario menhirs in Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, France, Europe

The Yuanmou Clay Forest in China is the best preserved example of this rare type of landscape in the world, Yuanmou, Yunnan Province, China, Asia

Type Big B killer whales (Orcinus orca), searching ice floes for pinnipeds in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Bear's Ear Primroses (Primula auricula L.), Kalk Alps National Park, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

Mt. Cerro Torre and Mt. Fitz Roy, El Chalten, Andes, Patagonia, Argentina, South America

Molten pahoehoe type lava flowing from a crack in the East Rift Zone towards the sea, lava field of the Kilauea shield volcano, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Kalapana, Hawai'i, USA

Molten pahoehoe type lava flowing from a crack in the East Rift Zone towards the sea, lava field of the Kilauea shield volcano, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Kalapana, Hawai'i, USA

Altocumulus clouds in a blue sky and mountain panorama, Manndlwand, Salzburger Land, Austria, Europe

Poppy (Papaver), Paphos, Cyprus

Ester Hodari, age 22 years old, cooks dinner using the traditional three-rock cook stove with a fire in the middle. These cookstoves use a lot of fuel, firewood, and produce a lot of smoke. Ester told us that cooking with this type of stove made her eyes turn red and she often had a chest cough. Her children, ages 5, 2 and 3 months are often with her when she is cooking. Her sister-in-law, Shadya Jumanne, age 11, helps her cook as well. Not long ago Ester’s 3 month-old developed a cough, It kept getting worse and so they took her by motorcycle to the hospital at night. Ester started really worrying about this. After this Ester and her husband agreed that they needed to buy a clean cookstove and started saving. The girl helping Ester cook in some of the images is her sister-in-law Shadya Jumanne, age 11. Ester met Solar Sister entrepreneur Fatma Mziray when she married her husband and moved to this village, Mforo near Moshi, Tanzania. Ester said that Fatma is like a mother to her in the village. When Fatma showed Ester the new wood stove she saw that is used less wood and produced less smoke.