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Yellowstone National Park: firestorm, 1988

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Fireboat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico, April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard rescue helicopter document the fire, searches for survivors of the 126 person crew. BP spill

Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Five Years Later

High-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image taken by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station (Sept. 2010).

Is the Number of Hurricanes Increasing?

Forest fire burning trees and grasses. (flames, smoke, combustion)

Playing with Wildfire: 5 Amazing Adaptations of Pyrophytic Plants

Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) photographed in the Midwest in 2017. endangered species insect pollination

What Would Happen If All the Bees Died?

Model of global ocean currents and temperatures

How Do Ocean Currents Affect the Biosphere?

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Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

Common, or southern, cassowary (Casuarius casuarius).

8 Birds That Can’t Fly

Calendar showing the month of February

Why Are There Only 28 Days in February?

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

After a perfect launch, spectators try to catch a last glimpse of Space Shuttle Columbia, barely visible at the top end of the twisted column of smoke.

7 Accidents and Disasters in Spaceflight History

Lead image for "A Timeline of the World in 8 Maps"

A Timeline of the World in 8 Maps

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Yellowstone National Park: firestorm, 1988

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fire disaster terrestrial ecosystem wildfire volcano earthquake tropical cyclone tundra polar ecosystem desert scrubland mountain ecosystem grassland

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

Ecosystems