Natural Landscapes and Environments

Scenic images of grasslands and natural terrains, capturing the beauty of outdoor environments and promoting conservation awareness.

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

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Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Regions - Discover-AQ Program Time Lapse Images , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho, where he took an aerial tour of lands affected by the summer's Murphy Complex Fire, and met with Bureau of Land Management fire control staff, state legislators and local officials from Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties

Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA

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The California Aqueduct is the state's largest and longest water transport system, stretching 444 miles from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the north to Southern California, Central Valley, California, USA

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Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to western Colorado for tours; for inspections of oil and gas development projects and surrounding environments; and for discussions with Colorado field staff of the Bureau of Land Management

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Natural gas development, CO

The California Aqueduct is the state's largest and longest water transport system, stretching 444 miles from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the north to Southern California, Central Valley, California, USA

Wind Farm, Southeast Washington, USA

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Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

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Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho, where he took an aerial tour of lands affected by the summer's Murphy Complex Fire, and met with Bureau of Land Management fire control staff, state legislators and local officials from Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho, where he took an aerial tour of lands affected by the summer's Murphy Complex Fire, and met with Bureau of Land Management fire control staff, state legislators and local officials from Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties

USA, Nevada, Majors Place. Wind farm

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho, where he took an aerial tour of lands affected by the summer's Murphy Complex Fire, and met with Bureau of Land Management fire control staff, state legislators and local officials from Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties

2006. Subjects: Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Work of the refuge; Islands; restoration; vegetation; Coastal environments; Biology; Botany; Alaska Peninsula; Simeonof Island; Simeonof Wilderness. . 1998 - 2011.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho, where he took an aerial tour of lands affected by the summer's Murphy Complex Fire, and met with Bureau of Land Management fire control staff, state legislators and local officials from Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties

Coal Bed methane development, WY

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho, where he took an aerial tour of lands affected by the summer's Murphy Complex Fire, and met with Bureau of Land Management fire control staff, state legislators and local officials from Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to southwestern Idaho for aerial touring, and stop in Owyhee County for meetings and tours with Shoshone Paiute Tribal leaders and Bureau of Land Management staff

Wind turbines on the hill in the sicilian coast

Collarmele, Italy WInd turbines on grassy hillsides.

Shower and sink with hot water at Krafla, volcanic caldera in the Myvatn Geothermal Area in summer, North Iceland

The California Aqueduct is the state's largest and longest water transport system, stretching 444 miles from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the north to Southern California, Central Valley, California, USA

Tyre tracks damaging fragile landscape

Refuge employee and visitor. Subjects: Wildlife refuges; Employees (USFWS); Service patch; Uniforms. Location: Louisiana. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: SABINE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to northeastern Utah for tours; inspections of oil and gas development projects, uintaite mining operations, and surrounding environments; and discussions with Utah field staff of the Bureau of Land Management

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to western Colorado for tours; for inspections of oil and gas development projects and surrounding environments; and for discussions with Colorado field staff of the Bureau of Land Management

Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Subjects: Coastal environments; Tundra. Location: Alaska. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Barbed Enclosure in New Mexico Barbed field enclosure near Las Vegas in New Mexico, USA. Copyright: xZoonar.com/MichaelxRosebrockx 9410818

Environmental Tierra del Fuego -- Invasive Species

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Aerial view of wind turbines at the Kotzebue wind farm, Arctic Alaska, summer

USA California. No Water No Life, California Drought Expedition 5. Tulare County, Lemon Cove, irrigated agriculture

Natural gas development, CO

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

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Mining Waste Waste products from years of gold mining take on strange forms Copyright: xZoonar.com/TimxHesterx 3125452

Images from Wood Buffalo National Park the nesting ground for the endangered Whooping Crane.

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Two track dirt road, water logged, under high voltage power lines and transmission towers, after an intense rain storm, Colorado

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

windmill with a pump and cattle water tank in shortgrass prairie against stormy sky, iPawnee National Grassland in Colorado near Grover

Germany, Saxony, Horse on shore, wind turbine in background

A large pipeline cuts through a residential property in the Australian outback.

City of Port Angeles landfill, a brownfield site with undulating heaps covered in grass.

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to western Colorado for tours; for inspections of oil and gas development projects and surrounding environments; and for discussions with Colorado field staff of the Bureau of Land Management

Aerial, nomadic herder camp, Mongolia

The new and old Lower Yellowstone intake canal headworks structure sit on the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Mont., approximately 70 miles upstream from the mouth of the river, July 25, 2022. The diversion dam allows for approximately 55,000 acres on 500 farms in eastern Montana and western North Dakota to be irrigated using the waters of the Yellowstone River.

No Gas Sign near Montana in Alberta Canada

Natural gas development, CO

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to western Colorado for tours; for inspections of oil and gas development projects and surrounding environments; and for discussions with Colorado field staff of the Bureau of Land Management

Agricultural land encroaching on natural habitat, Monterey Bay, California

USA, Arizona, Navajo Nation. Coal-fired Navajo Generating Station no longer in operation.

Gas drilling projects impede pronghorn migration; Pinedale, Wyoming, United States of America

DEFORESTATION, AUSTRALIA. Vicinity Perth. Only a narrow strip of trees remain. Deforestation has lead to salinization and erosion on a massive scale. .

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Aerial view of Refuge. Subjects: Wildlife refuges; Scenics; Wildlife refuges. Location: Alaska. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: YUKON FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Pipeline USA, Alaska, Dalton Highway pipeline in valley Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 21707753

Settlement in Georgia

Inferno eines Mülldeponiebrandes in einer Bergsteppe mit starkem Rauch. Garbage burns in the field. Landfill garbage fire inferno in mountain steppe with heavy smoke. Copyright: xZoonar.com/StanislavxSablinx 22712773

Poor air quality caused by the forest fires in northern Quebec. Rawdon, Quebec, Canada

solar power station - a typical power station fed by solar panels in Australia's outback. Western Australia, Australia. It is located amidst dry grassland and the solar panels and transformer are fenced off for protection.

Garbage at Patagonian Landscape Santa Cruz Argentina Contaminated landscape with plastic bottles and nylon bags in argentinan patagonia, Santa Cruz, Argentina Copyright: xZoonar.com/DanielxFerreira-LeitesxCiccarinox 10558371

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to the Powder River Basin area of northeastern Wyoming for tours; for aerial and ground inspections of coalbed methane gas wells, related water disposal systems, coal mine operations, and surrounding environments; and for talks with Bureau of Land Management state staff

Aerial view of hydro electric pipeline.

Landscape with wind park and many high windmills

fence curve nostalgia street

Landes forest disaster after Hurricane Klaus in 2009 France

Coalbed Methane

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Arizona-California border area, where he toured the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma, Arizona Area Office-Yuma Desalting Plant with Bureau Commissioner Robert Johnson, and joined Johnson and officials from the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Central Arizona Project, and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California at groundbreaking ceremonies for the Drop 2 Reservoir Project--part of the Lower Colorado River Water Storage Program--in Imperial County, California

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