Nature Gallery

Paraguay-Nature-Water Lily-Victoria

People take a boat to see giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) - known as Yakare Yrupe in Guarani - which appear every three to four years in great numbers and size (more than a metre and a half in diameter), in the Paraguay River in Piquete Cue just north of Asuncion, on January 8, 2018. - Water lilies are seen every year but not in such quantities and size and locals treat them as a national treasure. (Photo by Norberto DUARTE / AFP)

Us-Tourism-Nature-Dragonfly-Flowers

A dragonfly lands atop an unopened Lotus flower beside an opened one as Lotus flowers near full bloom at Echo Park lake amid an ongoing southern California heatwave in Los Angeles, California, on June 26, 2017.Lotus flowers at Echo Park lake were believed to have been imported in the 1920's from China, possibly by Aimee McPherson, founder of the Angelus temple near the park, and have returned following a two-year rehabiliatation project where the lake was drained and restored, with lotus beds replaced. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN

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Albania-Weather-Feature

Boys jump to cool off in the Blue Eye river, a water spring and natural phenomenon occurring near the Delvine district in Albania, on July 4, 2017.
The clear water of Blue Eye spring is coming from more than 50 meters deep pool and water flows at a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. / AFP PHOTO / Armend NIMANI

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