此處共匯集了52張圖像——從91位攝影師拍攝、230萬張照片和107個故事中選出。從美國宇航局肯尼迪航天中心的宇航服測試、到一只小穿山甲騎在媽媽的背上，這些極具感染力的照片將人們帶到了其聞所未聞之處，并且引起了情感上的共鳴。
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以下為我們精選的10張攝影作品：
A pet saddleback tamarin hangs on to Yoina Mameria Nontsotega as the Matsigenka girl takes a dip in the Yomibato River, deep inside Peru’s Manú National Park.
一只寵物鞍背鳥停在了Yoina Mameria Nontsotega的頭上，這個馬奇健格族女孩浸泡在秘魯馬努國家公園深處的Yomibato河水中。
Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda, lounges in a wild enclosure at a conservation center in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve.
這只16歲的大熊貓Ye Ye在中國臥龍自然保護區保護中心的一處荒野圍場中休憩。
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On a mountainside in Yosemite National Park, photographer Stephen Wilkes took 1,036 images over 26 hours to create this day-to-night composite.
約塞米蒂國家公園的山坡上，攝影師史蒂芬·威爾克斯在26小時內拍攝了1036張照片，以此來創造出這樣一張從日到夜的合成美景。
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As an evening storm lights up the sky near Wood River, Nebraska, about 413,000 sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.
內布拉斯加州的伍德河邊一場夜間風暴點亮了天空，大約有41萬3000只沙丘鶴來到普拉特河的淺灘上棲息。
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Silversides swirl through mangroves in the coral reefs off Cuba. The finger-size fish form large schools to try to confuse predators.
在古巴珊瑚礁，銀河魚們以旋渦狀穿過紅樹林。這些手指大小的魚兒們成群結隊以此來迷惑捕食者。
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Tempted by the fruit of a strangler fig, a Bornean orangutan climbs 100 feet into the canopy. With males weighing as much as 200 pounds, orangutans are the world’s largest tree-dwelling animals.
一只婆羅洲猩猩由于收到了絞殺植物上水果的誘惑而爬上了100英尺高的林冠。一只雄性大猩猩的體重能夠達到200磅，而婆羅洲猩猩則是世界上最大的樹棲動物。
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Lounging in inches of warm water, blacktip reef sharks wait for the tide to refill the lagoon at Seychelles’ Aldabra Atoll.
烏翅真鯊在幾英寸深的暖水區中休憩，等待著潮汐再次注滿塞舌爾群島的阿爾達布拉環礁湖。
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n Alaska, a mother grizzly and her cubs cause a “bear jam” on Denali’s 92-mile-long Park Road, open to private vehicles only five days each summer.
在阿拉斯加州，一只母灰熊和她的幼仔們在德納里峰一條92英里的公園道路上引起了一場“灰熊交通阻塞”，這條路每年夏天只有五天對私人車輛開放。
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Parts of the Yellowstone region are wilder now than they’ve been in a century. Grizzlies are spreading. This one, in Grand Teton National Park, fends off ravens from a bison carcass. Workers moved it away from the road to keep scavengers and tourists apart.
黃石公園的部分地區比起上個世紀來說更具野性了。孟菲斯灰熊正越來越多起來。在大提頓國家公園的這一只灰熊擋開北美野牛殘骸上的烏鴉們。工人們將道路上的動物尸體移開以此避免食腐動物和游客的相遇。
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In Flint, Michigan, siblings Julie, Antonio, and India Abram collect their daily allowance of bottled water from Fire Station #3, their local water resource site.
在密歇根州的弗林特，表姐妹茱莉、安東尼奧和來自印度的艾布拉姆扛著從當地水資源站三號消防站獲得的他們每日補貼的瓶裝水。
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The colors of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone come from thermophiles: microbes that thrive in scalding water.
黃石公園的大棱鏡溫泉受到嗜熱微生物的影響而變得色彩斑斕：這些嗜熱菌在滾燙的泉水中能夠蓬勃生長。
