The best photos of the past week (February 28 - March 6) from National Geographic

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

And again we go to travel to the most different parts of our planet with photographs from talented authors from National Geographic … In today's selection for February 28 - March 6 not only animals, but also people and landscapes, both urban and far from residential areas.

28th of February

Japanese macaques, also called snow monkeys, are very fond of warmth, despite the "cold" name. So, in winter, they bask in the hot natural springs of Nagano. Baby macaques are always under the supervision of adult monkeys, who are capable of much to protect their offspring. Their paws are long! Patrick Shyu's photo shows a family of monkeys basking in a spring.

01 march

Fire show in one of the Parisian squares, exactly opposite the famous Notre Dame Cathedral. Photo by Stephen Alvarez.

02 march

High heels and high expectations are what distinguish the teenage girls at the only high school in Timbuktu. The increased number of female students in school, fueled by the scholarship, gives the local authorities hope that the percentage of illiterate people in Mali will gradually surpass the 74% barrier. Photo by Brent Stirton.

03 march

Despite the fact that in Afghanistan it is rare when you can see a woman unaccompanied by men, no one accompanied these two young ladies. Together they stood on a mountain in the province of Badakhshan and looked into the distance, as if expecting someone. This photo was taken by Lynsey Addario when he was returning along a dusty mountain road from the hospital, where he was taking a young woman in labor, an Afghan girl, because her husband's car broke down so inappropriately halfway to the hospital.

04 march

As always, NG's weekly selections always feature a photograph that is indistinguishable from an oil painting. This time, such work belongs to Michael Melford (Michael Melford). Lake Chikuminuk in Alaska is located in the Wood Tikchik National Park, which covers 1.6 million acres. The lake is home to over five species of salmon, and the national park is home to moose, caribou, and brown bears.

05 march

Something like this looks like a normal working day on the streets of Kolkata, which daily pass through more than 16 million people who come to the city to work from small towns in the neighborhood, and sometimes come from far away. People mix with private and public transport, transport tries to bypass the stalls, which sometimes occupy a good part of the road - this is how huge megacities live. Photo by Randy Olson.

06march

In Australia, at the bottom of a drying lake in Victoria, one of the farmers discovered amazing things. Namely, - traces of diprotodon, which is also called "marsupial hippopotamus". It is the largest known marsupial that ever lived on earth, presumably from 1.6 million to 40 thousand years ago. Therefore, many thousands of years ago, a megafauna lived and developed in this area, and now the closest relatives of the diprotodon are considered to be small-sized wombats and koala.