Kirill Vselensky in Moscow as Dima Balashov gets the shot 

Wood River, Nebraska 

Bahamas

Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve

India 

Bornean orangutan

Matsigenka girl Peru’s Manú National Park 

 Ramadi an Iraqi city leveled by ISIS 

Grand Teton National Park BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES 

Greece BY VINCENT J. MUSI 

Pangolin Conservation, St. Augustine, Florida, BY JOEL SARTORE

In Flint, Michigan BY WAYNE LAWRENCE  

BY THOMAS PESCHAK 

Grand Teton BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER 

gor Voronkin surfaces at the Barentsburg coal mine on Spitsbergen, in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA 

Grand Canyon BY MICHAEL NICHOLS 

Russia’s Bovanenkovo natural gas field, on the Yamal Peninsula BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA 

BY DAVID DOUBILET AND JENNIFER HAYES

The capital of Taiwan, Taipei BY DINA LITOVSKY

BY RONAN DONOVAN 

BY ERIKA LARSEN 

 Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone  BY MICHAEL NICHOLS

Glacier National Park  COREY ARNOLD

Kirk Odom BY MAX AGUILERA-HELLWEG

In Alaska BY AARON HUEY 

Virunga Park rangers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo  BY BRENT STIRTON 

BY BRENT STIRTON

Norwegian research vessel Lance BY NICK COBBING

 Yosemite National Park BY STEPHEN WILKES

General Santos, in the Philippines BY ADAM DEAN

BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES 

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center BY PHILLIP TOLEDANO

 Bagaran, Armenia BY JOHN STANMEYER

BY DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER AT FLORIDA KEYS MARINE LIFE 

an American cruise ship sailed into Havana Bay BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER 

Cuba, Silversides swirl through mangroves in the coral reefs BY DAVID DOUBILET AND JENNIFER HAYES

South African ranch BY BRENT STIRTON 

Gerd Gamanab, 67 BY BRENT STIRTON

 BY JOE RIIS

Bukhansan National Park BY LUCAS FOGLIA

Munich’s Schwabinger Bach BY SIMON ROBERTS

in Peru's Manú forest  BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES

A girl watches as three Kurdish women are photographed with their faces hidden. Two of the women say they were forced to marry ISIS fighters before escaping to a refugee camp BY YURI KOZYREV 

BY BRENT STIRTON

A panda keeper in China uses a stuffed leopard to train young pandas to fear their biggest wild foe  BY AMI VITALE

At Fort Hall, Idaho BY ERIKA LARSEN

Port Salut, Haiti BY ANDREW MCCONNELL

Isra Ali Saalad moved from Somalia to Sweden BY ROBIN HAMMOND

BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES

BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK 

BY MATTHIEU PALEY