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  • A family sets up racks to dry salmon and prepares it for smoking at a Native Alaskan Tlingit fish camp at Dog Point near Sitka.
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  • Model takes a smoke break backstage as she is styled for a bridal fashion show. Wedding dresses and evening gowns were part of the formal wear shown off to eager young fashionistas in Monterrey, Mexico.
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  • Business men take a smoke and coffee break at an upscale coffee bar. Coffee shops are on every block in downtown Santiago where men catch a cup of coffee and maybe a kiss. Dressed in a short, red dress, the waitress works for substantial tips at Cafe Cousino or Coffee with Legs. She can make $800 a week by flirting, lighting cigarettes and serving coffee.
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  • A  90-year old was the oldest ranger in Yosemite National Park where he began working in 1930. He lived alone in a tent cabin, listened to classical music, read Shakespeare and passionately sang opera. He had John Muir's writings as a young boy and was inspired to study botany, zoology and geology. He continued leading interpretive walks five days a week in Tuolomne Meadows and afterwards, relaxed smoking his pipe with a cup of coffee.
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  • Masai tribesman cooking meat over a smoking fire.
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  • A worker digs newly fired bricks from a pit.  Another sits nearby smoking.
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  • Gold miners in Kalimantan where one takes a smoke break from the hard work.
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  • A gold miner in Kalimantan lights a smoke during a break from work.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Fish inspectors take a break during their pursuit of salmon poachers.<br />
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A warden shares tea with the poachers in their kitchen tent. There are a lot of unwritten rules. Fish wardens know that it costs $10,000 to get into a poaching camp in Kamchatka, and $10,000 to get back out by helicopter with your catch. The wardens understand that if they destroy fishing gear and caviar production facilities, they have harmed their neighbors enough. And they also can’t afford $10,000 to get criminals back by helicopter for prosecution.<br />
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The poachers know this, and know not to bring any kind of identity papers with them because it is possible for them to be prosecuted with their passports.  The kitchen survives the burn so men can feed themselves. The poachers go free, but have to sit and wait for their helicopter, empty handed which is why the wardens don’t burn their kitchen or sleeping areas.
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  • A steel worker at the Wuhan iron and steel plant.
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  • Pedestrians in downtown Shanghai.
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  • Young people dance under neon lights in the Armani Club in the Liu lin Road area. Bars are a little crazier in south China where there is an abundance of new wealth.
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  • Dancing at a pick up club for mistresses and male prostitutes.
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  • This is a pick up club for mistresses and there is a room of male prostitutes that get signaled to come over to a table where the women will choose.
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  • Rachel broke up with her ex-pat boyfriend and is well-versed in the social scene of Shanghai. She prefers ex-pats but doesn’t like the dynamic that many of them think that women like her prefer them and use this to their advantage. Even though the statistics show that there are many more western men marrying Chinese women, those statistics are not discussed in the Chinese media. For example, the government would never allow a soap opera about all the western men connecting with Chinese women, so they promoted a soap opera about the opposite situation called “Foreign Babes in Beijing” featuring western women falling for Chinese men.
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  • Maintenance workers tend to a gigantic wheel of a truck that hauls hundred of tons of waste rock at a gold mining operation.
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  • Students dress up for a party.
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  • Student friends share cigarettes and talk.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
    RANDY OLSON_06396_673129-5.jpg
  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • Tree trunks wreathed in smoke and flames from a prescribed burn set in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Controlled fires in the swamp help reduce the thick undergrowth in the jungle-like environment. Lightening strikes from frequent summer storms cause wild fires, which can spread to private land.
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  • Field with blooming prairie smoke flowers.
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  • Prairie smoke and other native flowers bloom under a stormy sky.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • A statue of Mao Tse Tung a=towers above a smoke stack at the gate to Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) is a distinctive wildflower with feathery seed heads and the blooms transform into upright clusters of wispy pink plumes. Native to North American prairies, it attracts butterflies in during it s late spring bloom.
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  • Aerial photo shows a smoke rising from a controlled fire burning undergrowth on Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Smoke rises from a controlled fire that burns undergrowth in a pine forest on Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Smoke and flames rise as Bureau of Land Management fire crew sets a prescribed burn in Oregon to clear land for grazing and reduce potentially flammable undergrowth. Years of fire suppression create an environment that is prone to wild fires during dry summers. Managing cattle land and wilderness ecosystems is a difficult balance. More than a billion dollars is spent annually suppressing wildfires that burn millions of acres of western land. <br />
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Though fire plays an integral role in many forest and rangeland ecosystems, decades of efforts directed at extinguishing every fire that burned on public lands have disrupted the natural fire regimes that once existed. Moreover, as more communities develop and grow in areas that are adjacent to fire-prone lands in what is known as the wildland/urban interface, fires pose increasing threats to people and their property.
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  • Aerial photo shows a smoke rising from a controlled fire burning undergrowth in a pine forest on Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Mexicans gather at a popular local bookstore and coffee house to drink, smoke, talk and take in the ambiance.  A trendy meeting place with a casual club atmosphere draws a young crowd to listen talk, eat and drink while listening to live music.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • This is the Kireka area just outside Kampala, Uganda.  Most all of these laborers are from Gulu in the north... insecurity with LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so the gravel can be used for construction materials.  The mothers in these families make about 50 cents a day breaking the rocks their husbands haul out of the quarries.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock in the Kireka area just outside Kampala.  Most all of these folks are from Gulu in the north. Insecurity with the LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so gravel can be used in construction materials.
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  • Chilean newlyweds in festive paint and feathers celebrate marriage Rapa Nui style. Many of the 100,000 visitors to the island are from Chile which dwarf the less than 6,000 inhabitants.
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  • A hot smokey controlled fire burns undergrowth in a pine forest on Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Firefighters watch a controlled fire burn undergrowth that billows over a road on the edge of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which often start from lightening strikes from frequent summer storms and threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Squatters on the banks of the Buriganga River. Informal plastic waste workers sort plastic which is technically an illegal venture since they don’t pay taxes. Workers were hesitant to give much information fearing I might be surveying for the government. The Buriganga River flows into the Bay of Bengal.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp where people gather to flush out duikers into their nets.
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  • Storage sheds outside apartment building in Norilsk
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Cafeteria inside Norilsk Nickel company
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Cafeteria inside Norilsk Nickel company
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  • Cafeteria inside Norilsk Nickel company
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  • Boy in apartment in Norilsk
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Extractive business outside Norilsk
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  • Boy lights a fire on a playground outside his apartment building in Norilsk
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  • Workers smelt nickel in heavy polluting, antiquated factories.
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Bus stop Norilsk
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  • Taxi drive from airport to Norilsk Nickel. When we landed we realized why Russians had not been allowed here. There was a row of nuclear missiles on the horizon as we got off the plane.
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  • Tourists photograph a Rapa Nui native dancer in body paint. Approximately 6,000 Rapa Nui live on Easter Island, which belongs to Chile. They numbered only 111 in 1877 after slave traders and disease decimated the population. <br />
Most people associate Easter Island with the famous, ancient statues known as moai and are unaware that descendants of the Polynesian culture inhabit the island today.
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  • Billowing water vapor emits toxins into the air from a paper mill plant. The main gaseous pollutants hydrogen sulfides, sodium sulfide, methyl mercaptan, sulfur, and chlorine dioxide is reported for chronic, respiratory disorder and irritation to skin, eyes and cardiac problem along with nausea and headache.<br />
Pulp and paper generates the third largest amount of industrial air, water, and land emissions in Canada and the sixth largest in the United States.
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  • A controlled fire burns undergrowth of pine trees on Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Arial photo at night showing a controlled fire burning undergrowth on islands of peat floating in the marsh water of Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fires are set on a three-year rotation to prevent wildfires which threaten nearby homes and farm.
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  • Burning trash on the bank of the Buriganga River.
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  • Burning trash in the street.
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  • A worker sets fire to a home that is demolished to rubble as a result of mine expansion. As mountaintop removal mine permits allow the surface mines to expand, they often displace residents in their way.  Dingess-Rum Coal Company served notice to Dehue residents renting old coal company houses, giving them 30 days to move. <br />
Dehue, like dozens of other mining towns, was once a busy center of activity with a grocery, post office, theater, barbershop, pool hall, school payroll office, and Civic Club. These communities become ghost towns and over time are dismantled. Day lilies and fruit trees often mark the spot of leveled homes lining a road.<br />
Dehue was located off Route 10 on Rum Creek south of Logan. It began in 1916 as a coal company town owned by Youngstown Mines Corporation. It existed as late as the 1970s, but the homes were never sold to private residents. Most houses were cleared and burned in 2000 and 2001.
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  • A fire crew marches in formation toward a growing wildfire. Flames leap high as a fire caused by lightning spread into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
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  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
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  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
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  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705720-7.jpg
  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705720-6.jpg
  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705720-5.jpg
  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705720-4.jpg
  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705720-3.jpg
  • Flames leap high as a wildfire caused by lightning spreads into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705720-2.jpg
  • Fire fighters prepare to fight a wildfire caused by lightning that spread into the night along a ridge line. Wild land fire devastation costs millions of dollars and loss of property and life. <br />
According to the Washington Post: High temperatures. Low humidity. Little rainfall. Dry vegetation. Fast winds.<br />
Wildfires depend on a combination of environmental conditions to start and spread. As global temperatures rise, research shows these conditions appear more intensely and frequently — escalating the risk of wildfires. Around 85 percent of wildfires over the past two decades were started by people.
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  • People ice-fishing on the Ural River in front of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp in the Ituri forest. The future for indigenous tribes is threatened by logging, mining and urbanization moving into the forest.
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  • Laborers at a brick factory.
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  • Laborers at a brick factory.
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  • A Ugandan man uses a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • A Ugandan child watches a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • A lone man is silhouetted while watching a bonfire burn in the street outside the Cathdral in Loja.  San Pedro Y San Pablo is a Catholic religious-themed fiesta. Many of the indigenous festivals celebrating the movements of the sun and the harvests were incorporated into the Christian tradition, resulting in a syncretism of Catholic religious imagery and older indigenous beliefs.<br />
The Ecuadorian city is nestled in the Cuxibamba Valley at 7,000 feet in elevation.
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  • Burning of the town of Dehue to make room for a coal processing plant. Inhabited homes were company owned, so families had no choice but to move before their community was demolished.
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