Natural phenomena

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The diverse beauty of the planet is heart-stopping – but the earth is under threat from climate change so we've rounded up the most beautiful natural phenomena pictures to inspire us to protect and nourish the world

It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender. Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the Cappuccino Coast

Pink lakes, sherbet-colored mountains and glowing beaches, this planet is an amazing place. But make plans to see these wonders soon, before they disappear.

Red sprites and blue jets are very high altitude upper atmospheric phenomena associated with thunderstorms. They have only recently been documented on camera. Red sprites are massive (as big as 20 km in size), but faint luminous flashes that appear directly above an active thunderstorm and coincide with powerful lightning strikes. Blue jets too are a high altitude optical phenomenon, but are different from sprites. They were first documented in 1994. Blue jets are optical ejections from the…

Undoubtedly, the world's active volcanoes are one of the most beautiful and fascinating natural phenomena. These geological formations played a key role in the formation of the Earth. Millennia ago, there were a huge number of them all over the planet.