December 25, 2010
December 24, 2010
December 12, 2010
November 03, 2010
October 08, 2010
October 03, 2010
September 10, 2010
September 05, 2010
August 31, 2010
Disaster
Workers push an overturned off-road racing vehicle upright after it ran out of control and into a crowd of spectators during a race in Lucerne Valley, California killing at least eight people.
August 10, 2010
August 09, 2010
July 29, 2010
July 28, 2010
July 25, 2010
July 20, 2010
Bizarre Deep-Sea Reef Creatures Discovered
This glowing orb is the lobster-like, deep-sea amphipod Phronima, which produces a barrel-shaped, gelatinous home around itself.
Lake Superior, a Natural Global Warming Gauge, Is Running a Fever
This year, the waters in Lake Superior are on track to reach--and potentially exceed--the lake's record-high temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit
July 12, 2010
July 07, 2010
June 21, 2010
Crude Waters
Waves carry oil from the Deepwater Horizon to the shores of Orange Beach, Alabama. Water thick with oil has battered the Alabama coast, leaving deposits 4-6 inches deep in some points.
June 17, 2010
May 21, 2010
Noah's Ark
A five year old was discussing Noah's Ark with Grandma.
Grandma asked, "How many animals went into the Ark?"
The youngster replied: "One mail and one e-mail."
May 15, 2010
Sacrifice
A bird soaked in oil from the spill caused by the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig struggles against the side of a supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico.
May 05, 2010
Search and Rescue
Rescue workers search for survivors in a landslide said to have buried more then 300 meters of freeway and four vehicles on Highway 3 in northern Taiwan.
May 04, 2010
Linfen, China
The most polluted city on earth. Located at the heart of a 12-mile industrial belt of iron foundries, smelting plants and cement factories, fed by the 50m tonnes of coal mined every year, unregulated because of rapid development
April 16, 2010
The International Banana Club and Museum
After 38 years heading up the International Banana Club and Museum, Ken "Bananister" Bannister (the collection's founder and declared top banana) has been asked by the town of Hesperia, Calif., to split. The community was apparently tired of his museum's monkey business and wanted to use the rent-free space for the artifacts of John Swisher, a local historian. Luckily for this Chiquita, Bannister has found a new location for his collection and will be reopening the museum near Palm Springs, Calif., in January 2011.
April 12, 2010
God and Gun
A crucifix and M-4 rifle hang above a US soldier's cot at a combat outpost in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Ceremony
Indigenous Zoque men carry baskets containing flowers and candles as offerings inside the cave of Villa Luz, during a ritual called "The fishing of the blind sardine" in Tapijualpa, Mexico.
Alive
A subway train commuter, injured by the suicide bomb explosion at the Park Kultury subway station in Moscow, Russia, is seen outside the station shortly after the blast.
April 09, 2010
March 25, 2010
March 23, 2010
Stormy Weather With a Color
On Saturday, March 20 sand from China's northern deserts blew into the capital city, giving Beijing an eerie saffron glow.
March 22, 2010
World's Shortest Man Dies at 21
He Pingping the world's shortest man, died today. He was 21 years old and 29 inches tall. Pingping was from Inner Mongolia and was very short. Here he is with the world's tallest man.
March 15, 2010
Don't Try This At Sea
In Mexico, a diver fends off a Great White shark, then, in a moment of thrill-seeking insanity, puts his hand into the shark's mouth.
March 13, 2010
Horned Lizard
Horned lizard lying flat on back, feigning death - behaviour tactic against hog-nosed snake, Tucson, Arizona.
March 11, 2010
March 07, 2010
February 26, 2010
On April 2007
A trainer is killed and more than 20 spectators are injured after an elephant goes on a rampage at a ceremonial festival in the south Indian state of Kerala.
February 25, 2010
Doctor on Call
O.K., hindsight is 20/20, and when this ad was created in 1946, the link to lung cancer wasn't totally set in stone. But the curator of the exhibition, Dr. Robert Jackler, not incidentally the chair of the department of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, still thinks it egregious. "The ads were intended to reassure a worried public about a product even known back then as 'coughin' nails,' " he says. What's more reassuring than the small-town doctor? "The response of the organized medical community was to do nothing, because the ads showed doctors looking wise," adds Jackler. (Note the unintended irony in "Camels: Costlier Tobaccos.")
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