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  • Fire season in Alaska. Photo by JLS Photography - Alaska, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/, via Flickr

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  • Coffee bean texture, by freestock.ca, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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  • Green and pink reef scene. American Samoa, Swains Island. Image Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Center, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Oceanography Team. CC-BY-2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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  • Drought on Ailuk Atoll in 2013, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Unmodified photo by PACC, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/, via Flickr

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  • Homes in the Marshall Islands form a natural frame for the sea. Photo by Stefan Lins, CC-BY-2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, via Flickr.