Extreme Ice Survey team member Adam LeWinter overlooks Birthday Canyon, Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland, 28 June 2009.

Photo: James Balog/Aurora Photos

A huge ocean storm in Porto, Portugal, January 2013.

Photo: “Rage” by Veselin Malinov

A storm cloud over a farm in Lodgepole, NE, June 22, 2012.

Photo: “Lovely Monster Over the Farm” by Camille Seaman

An aerial view of a beach in Spain.

Photo: “Benidorm #1 Spain,” 2010 © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

Sunset at Xingping, China.

Photo: James Bian

An aerial photograph of the Thjorsá River in Iceland.

Photo: “Thjorsá River #1, Iceland, 2012” © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York