Then I road-tripped through some of the most remote parts of Iceland under the midnight summer sun.
Just 15 short minutes in the summer sun produces a blast of 10, 000 international units.
When rain is not flooding the ramshackle tents and tarps, the summer sun turns them into hothouses.
Her usually pale complexion glowed from summer sun, but there were deep, dark lines under her eyes.
At Basel, in the evening summer sun, the river has a festive atmosphere.
Yakuts said that somewhere in the south was Dauria, where a broad river watered fields of wheat in the summer sun.
Filtered water stations dotted the set, letting people fill up, plastic bottle-free, with ease a necessity under the hot SoCal summer sun.
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The legacy of confidence means it is the challenge of politicians and civic leaders to foster that spirit so it doesn't disappear along with the fleeting summer sun.
"The ultraviolet rays from indoor tanning are generally stronger than the summer sun at noon, " said Dawn Holman, a behavioral scientist who works in the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
One theory is that the summer sun melts ice on the surface of the glacier which creates pools of water which then flow into moulins -- narrow tubular shafts in the glacier.
That's part of what pulls the boys into their hero's wobbly orbit from the very first moment they see him up close, squinting in the summer sun with a cigarette in his teeth.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
Sydney's summer sun has disappeared under a blanket of smoke so thick at times that iconic structures such as the Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge could not be seen from the city centre, and flights have had to be diverted to other places.
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Arctic sea ice cover grows each winter as the sun sets for several months, and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky.
In the winter, when the sun is in the south, it shines on the entrance and heats things up in the summer, the sun moves to the north and the cave entrance is in the shade, keeping things inside cool.
The debate was stilled this summer while the sun blocked the bit of sky in question.
During the polar summer, the sun circles in the sky, never going down.
Behind us there was a wall of rough flagstone that smelled of dirt, of fields in summer with the sun beating down after a heavy rain.
The warmth in the Arctic that this arrangement has brought may diminish the regeneration of sea ice over the course of this winter, meaning that next summer's sun can push back the boundaries further.
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The days are long in the summer, and the sun does not set until after 10 pm.
When Burns visited the Baltimore Sun this summer, one employee jokingly asked him if he would make a film about newspapers.
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Unlike Antarctica, which is protected by an international agreement, numerous countries lay claim to parts of the Arctic, which makes it hard to pin down exactly how many tourists visit the region each summer, when the sun does not set below the horizon and the ice melts enough to allow expedition ships passage to the remote wilderness.
On a sun-sweet summer day Stephen Bronfman, the 42-year-old grandson of Seagram's founder, Samuel Bronfman, relaxes on a porch at Cap Nord, his salmon camp on Quebec's remote north shore.
As the sun set, a summer storm was gathering, and Henry watched lightning flicker across the clouds.
'We're celebrating summer, the happiness of the sun coming up, and the first hay being cut, ' says Per Olof as he fastens the flowers with gardening twine.
After she died, it soon became obvious that what Father had always wanted to do in the two weeks off that he allowed himself every summer was to lie in the sun all day.
Young and old, men and women worked from sun up to sun down, through the summer heat and bitterly cold winter.
But today the sun came out and British summer showed its best.
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