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  • Weather: Rainbow in southern Spain over hills with olive trees.  Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction.
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  • Weather: Rainbow, Rio Grande Valley, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1988)
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  • Weather: Rainbow, Rio Grande Valley, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1988)
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  • Weather: Rainbow, Dallas, Texas. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1981)
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  • Weather: Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1980)
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  • Weather: Rainbow over nature preserve researchers Holt and Quizenberry. Waikamoi, island of Maui, Hawaii. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1984)
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  • Weather: Rainbow in Wooden Valley, Napa County, California. A rainbow silhouettes a turkey vulture. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1988)
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  • Weather: Rainbow and Mission San Xavier in Tucson, Arizona. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1986)
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  • Weather: Napa, California - rainbow at sunset. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the Sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1985)
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  • Weather: Clouds colorfully illuminated at sunset, seen from Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy in New Mexico. (1993)
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  • Weather: One of numerous ninety-degree-plus hot-water springs in the Midway area of Utah. Snow. Nature Spring. (1981)
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  • Weather: A thunderhead cloud approaches the Breakers Water Park in Tucson, Arizona. A lightning detector is used to monitor the proximity of lightning, giving the lifeguards time to warn the swimmers when to get out of the water. (1993)
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  • Weather: A Saguaro Cactus and an afternoon summer lightning storm in the Tucson, Arizona desert. (1993)
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  • Weather: An area of desert known as the Racetrack, in California's Death Valley on a crystal clear summer day right after sunrise.  (1982)
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  • Weather: Winter rain and bare branches. California. (1980)
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  • Weather: Spring ice storm coats a fence and weeds in rural Tennessee. March 1974.
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  • Weather: Snow on Park Avenue, New York City, New York. February 1979.
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  • Weather: Sunset light breaks through the clouds illuminating the mountains near Lone Pine along Route 395 in the Eastern Sierras of California.  (1990)
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  • Weather: Moonrise. View from Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy in New Mexico. (1992)
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  • Weather: Evan Menzel, 6, runs toward a dust devil, a small whirlwind, near Casa Grande, Arizona.  Dust devils usually last for a short period of time but can swirl dust and debris to great heights. Desert. Model Released (1991)
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  • During a sandstorm in March 2003, and the USA invasion of Iraq, Kuwait City, Kuwait, gets blasted by high winds laden with desert sand from the north. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • In March, 1991, heads of the three Texas oil well fire fighting companies made their first trip to Kuwait to survey the damage of the burning oil fields set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in February. Here in the Al Burgan field in mid afternoon, it was as dark as a moonless night due to the heavy thick smoke. The only light came from the more than 300 flaming oil wells and the truck headlights. It was raining soot and unburned oil. It was estimated that 5 or 6 million barrels of oil were being lost every day in this field alone. Huge oil lakes were forming. The men in the photo are: Boots Hansen (white jacket, Boots and Coots), Raymond Henry (Red Adair Company, red coveralls), Joe Bowden (Wildwell Control, yellow coveralls), and Larry Flak (oil well fire coordinator, black jacket).
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  • In March, 1991, heads of the three Texas oil well fire fighting companies made their first trip to Kuwait to survey the damage of the burning oil fields set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in February. Here in the Al Burgan field in mid afternoon, it was as dark as a moonless night due to the heavy thick smoke. The only light came from the more than 300 flaming oil wells and the truck headlights. It was raining soot and unburned oil. It was estimated that 5 or 6 million barrels of oil were being lost every day in this field alone. Huge oil lakes were forming. The men in the photo are: Boots Hansen (white jacket, Boots and Coots), Raymond Henry (Red Adair Company, red coveralls), Joe Bowden (Wildwell Control, yellow coveralls), and Larry Flak (oil well fire coordinator, black jacket)
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  • Flying over Kuwait right after the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the desert is covered in smoke. The lights burning through the heavy clouds of smoke are some of the more than 700 wells that were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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