Arctic Melt Pond
From above, Arctic ice looks quite different in summer than it does in winter. As temperatures rise in the summer, turquoise splotches of color begin to speckle the ice surfaces. The splashes of blue are melt ponds, areas where snow has melted and pooled in low spots on glaciers and sea ice.
Nice Beach Erosion Leads To Complaints From Swimmers
The pebble beaches of the Côte d’Azur resort have been eroded so steeply by the waves of the Mediterranean, that daily bulldozing is not enough to stop shoreline from slipping into steep drop.