Known as the driest, highest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is full of surprises: mountains, volcanoes, salt flats, geysers, wetlands, hot springs and an abundance of animal and plant life.

FORBES: Connect

Along with neighbouring Banff, Jasper is a Unesco World Heritage site, recognised for its beauty, animal and plant life, and staggering variety of landscapes, including glaciers, alpine meadows, steaming hot springs, cerulean lakes and some of the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains.

BBC: Hiking to the top of Jasper National Park

It's less useful, of course, for people who made their teeth before bomb testing started in 1955, and it will become ever less useful as more of the bomb carbon is absorbed by oceans and plant and animal life.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It takes a close look at the physical features and natural processes that shape the incredible plant and animal life to be found underwater as well as life-forms exposed by the tides.

UNESCO: Associated Schools Programme (ASPNet)

It celebrates New Zealand's unique plant and animal life and to mark the 2010 UN International Year of Biodiversity.

UNESCO: Te Kura A Rito O Newton students win UN Photo Awards

The area is rich in plant and animal life with over 38 threatened species of flora and fauna.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Drug concentrations in water are not thought to be harmful to human health, although concerns remain over possible effects on plant and animal life.

BBC: University studies drug residue pollution in water

Clavaud's microscope illuminated what Redon called the "intermediary life between animal and plant, " and his bookshelf introduced the artist to Gustave Flaubert and Edgar Allan Poe.

WSJ: Gary Geipel: The Late Blooming of Odilon Redon