On the vast sea ice researchers drill core samples to collect extremophiles from beneath the ice to study. Fiji islands Mother and son tourists on

Mother and son tourists on a safari climb to the top of a black volcanic sand dune

Bright green Lichen covering the forest trunks of Blackwood Trees

A young boy attaches eyes and buttons to his gingerbread men to bake

A horse stands beneath a street lamp outside the gate to a cement factory in an Amazon River town

On the vast sea ice researchers drill core samples to collect extremophiles from beneath the ice to study. Fiji islands Mother and son tourists onOn the vast sea ice researchers drill core samples to collect extremophiles from beneath the ice to study. Turtle Rock, Erebus Bay, McMurdo Sound, Ross Island, Antarctica.