International Parks and UNESCO Sites
An Earth Observatory Collection
Over millions of years, water has sculpted limestone in northern Vietnam into an extraordinary karst landscape full of towers, cones,…
Winding across the Jeannie catchment in northern Queensland, the river sustains diverse ecosystems on its way to the Coral Sea.
The island group off mainland Mozambique is a dynamic marine and island ecosystem shaped by tides and currents.
The Rwenzori Mountains in eastern Africa are renowned for their water resources and endemic plants and animals, but like elsewhere…
Satellite images of the ancient city in Zanzibar highlight urbanization patterns and help researchers find new archaeological sites.
Wildfire burned through unique landscapes and disrupted scientific research on this remote island in the southern Indian Ocean.
On this Japanese island, fertile plains are sandwiched between mountain ranges that were mined for gold and silver.
Unburdened by the weight of thick ice, land has been rising around the Gulf of Bothnia, creating hectares of new…
The onset of autumn reds and yellows was delayed across the country following several unusually warm months.
Everything’s bigger in Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, where unique wildlife, plains, wetlands, and animal-engineered landscapes all exist on a…
Amid prolonged drought, wet spring weather flooded marshes and greened vegetation in southern Spain.
The large coral islands off the African coast are home to giant tortoises and unique birdlife.
The highest point in the Indian Ocean, this 2-million-year-old volcano is rarely snowy.
Aínos National Park on Greece’s largest Ionian island became a dark sky park in 2023.
These freshwater tidal wetlands have been shaped by centuries of floods and the efforts to control them.
Thousands of endemic plant species flourish in one of the planet’s hottest biodiversity hotspots.
A few years after a fresh influx of water raised its levels, the large lake has nearly gone dry.
Satellite data show wetlands in Spain desiccated by demands on groundwater and persistent drought.
Skirting the coastline of Mozambique, these 32 small islands are home to a diversity of corals and sea turtles.
The charismatic creatures have cleared and maintained an open mud and mineral bath amid the rainforest in the Central African…
São Miguel Island is the largest, most populous, and most volcanically active of the nine islands of Azores archipelago.
