Look: Our amazing Earth seen from above

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Published: April 23, 2024 18:02 Compiled by Devadasan K P, Chief Visual Editor with inputs from Reuters

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Elizabeth Lake, that has been refilled by the recent heavy rainfalls, after being dried up for several years due to extreme heat and drought conditions, in Elizabeth Lake, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, April 20, 2023. Image Credit: Reuters

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Swirls of clouds form a heart-like shape as winds divert around the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean, February 2, 2019. Image Credit: NASA

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Picture taken with a drone on April 13, 2024 at Svartsengi near Grindavik, Iceland, shows an aerial view of a volcanic eruption at Sundhnukagigar in southwest Iceland, ongoing for a month. Image Credit: AFP

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A farmer stands in the middle of a dried-up dam in a drought-effected paddock on his property located west of the town of Gunnedah in New South Wales, Australia. Image Credit: Reuters

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A view shows a collapsed part of the Rhone glacier, amid climate change, in Obergoms, Switzerland. Image Credit: Reuters

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Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt. Taranaki at its center. Image Credit: Reuters

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Small island cays and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them in the Bahamas in a photo taken from the International Space Station. Image Credit: Reuters

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Vew of Lake Powell is seen, where water levels have declined dramatically as growing demand for water and climate change shrink the Colorado River in Page, Arizona, November 19, 2022. Image Credit: Reuters

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An ipe (lapacho) tree is seen in this aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near the city of Novo Progresso, Para State. Image Credit: Reuters

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Aerial view of the tree branching area of the Shatt Al-Arab River, in Basra, Iraq. Image Credit: Reuters

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Nad Al Sheba Desert in Dubai. Image Credit: Reuters

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A flooded island after heavy rains in Qingyuan, in southern China's Guangdong province. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on April 23. Image Credit: AFP

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A view of dried-up rivers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, December 2, 2013. The Pilbara region, which is the size of Spain, has the world's largest known deposits of iron ore and supplies nearly 45 percent of global trade in the mineral. Image Credit: Reuters

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Love lake in Dubai. Image Credit: Shutterstock

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An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland. Image Credit: Reuters

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