Today we"re exploring a place of otherworldly beauty: the Jöriseen, a group of alpine lakes near Davos, Switzerland. On sunny days, the lakes glow an ethereal blue, contrasting with the dark, jagged Silvretta Alps that encircle them. The sunlight is reflected in the water by "rock flour"—silt-sized rock particles generated from the grinding of bedrock by glaciers.
Jöriseen lakes in the Silvretta Alps, Switzerland
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World Teachers Day
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National Moth Week
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Spring equinox
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Moody skies over Valletta
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Landscape Architecture Month
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By the light of the fireflies
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Hallstatt, Austria
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And you thought moths were boring
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Happy Boxing Day!
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Let s celebrate cephalopods
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30 years after Exxon Valdez
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50 years of Earth Day
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Happy Mother s Day!
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Fall comes to the Last Frontier
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Mountain mists over Bavaria
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Let the games (finally) begin!
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The borrowed days are here
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The mighty, mighty mushroom
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