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  • PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.  (Oswaldo Guterez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.
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  • Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
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  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_446_x.jpg
  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_162_x.jpg
  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
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  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
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  • Kuwait oil well fires. Al Burgan field. Tornados of smoke reflected in oil lake.
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  • Iguazu Falls, a series of large waterfalls on the Brazil and Parguay  border with Argentina. Argentina.
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  • ARG_11_xs.Iguazu Falls, a series of large waterfalls on the Brazil and Parguay  border with Argentina. Argentina.
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  • Iguazu Falls, a series of large waterfalls on the Brazil and Paraguay border with Argentina. Argentina.
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  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
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  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_448_x.jpg
  • An adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker, Akademik Sergey Vavilov, watches humpback whales from an inflatable zodiac boat in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula. The icebreaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and although scientists still use it occasionally, it is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_207_x.jpg
  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_180_x.jpg
  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_179_x.jpg
  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_168_x.jpg
  • A humpback whale plunges into the ice cold waters of Wilhelmina Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula, near a Zodiac boat that was part of an adventure tourism team from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov. The ice-breaker was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
    ANT_110118_161_x.jpg
  • The burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991 were covered in oil that rained down from the clouds of oil smoke and oil shooting into the air after a fire had been extinguished. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. Here a fire fighting crew from Wild Well Control sprays water on a fire so that they can move closer with heavy equipment and attempt to stop the flow with a "stinger?. A stinger is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas.
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  • The burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait right after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. Tornados of fire are seen spinning off a burning well. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • A tornado of oil and smoke is mirrored in a vast lake of oil in the Al-Burgan Oil Fields, Kuwait. In this field alone, there were more than 300 oil wells set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. The $20 billion effort to extinguish the fires lasted until the end of the year. Each day, in this oil field alone, the loss was estimated at 5 to 6 million barrel. Huge burning oil lakes added smoke and oily rain to a nightmarish scene. May, 1991. (NPPA Winner; Communication Arts Winner).
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  • A haulage truck on the trans-Kalahari highway near the Botswana border in Namibia. With no comprehensive railway networks to move cargo between countries in southern Africa, haulage trucks serve as the primary means of transport for the bulk of regional trade.
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  • Old transformer turned into a suggestion and payments box for the power company on the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Dead brown tree snakes are draped on it..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. Hungry egg-eating tree snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. These snakes were electrocuted causing a power outage from 1 to 7 AM on May 19.
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  • Nuclear power plant cooling towers of the Cannenom Nuclear Power Station in France on the Moselle River, near Thionville, 35 km from Luxembourg. Plant consists of 4 pressurized water reactors, each generating 1300 MW. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Checking control rod fit at the reactor core of a boiling H2O nuclear power reactor. Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant near Veracruz, Mexico.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • Barstow, California telephone and power lines across the desert.
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson (on wave at right) surfs on the Pacific near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California.  (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California.
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  • The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California.
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  • Lights illuminate the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California, before dawn. Pacific Ocean waves wash seaweed and kelp up onto the beach in the foreground.
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  • Long distance runners pass through a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Ernie Johnson, a finish carpenter and paddle surfer, with his typical day's worth of food near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 3500 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 165 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery..The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called "a gem unique and worthy of its name." When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called ?a gem unique and worthy of its name.? When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Waves breaking on the rocky seashore at Hana, Maui, Hawaii. USA
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA..
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • A golfer teeing off at a golfcourse overlooking the oil refinery at Grangemouth, Scotland.
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  • An avid runner not deterred by disaster, Dr. Daoud, head of preventive services at Ahmadi Hospital takes his daily jog near the burning Kuwait oil fields. (May, 1991). Dr. Daoud, a Palestinian doctor working in Kuwait for many years, participated in studies of the effects of breathing oil well fire smoke for extended periods of time by dissecting the lungs of sheep kept alive in Kuwait and comparing them with imported sheep. He displayed some of the healthy and diseased lungs.
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. This photo was made with a five-minute time exposure. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 1992..
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  • Bill Wysock in his backyard, in Monrovia (near Hollywood), California. Fiery sparks crackle from a metal tube as he also lights a 40-watt light bulb in his hands. He is sitting on a metal disk linked by a cable to his Tesla coil: a transformer producing high-frequency currents that pass safely over the surface of his body. Low-frequency currents would pass through it, meeting resistance and causing injury. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_11_xs.jpg
  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_06_xs.jpg
  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992).
    USA_SCI_LIG_05_xs.jpg
  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_04_xs.jpg
  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Evening traffic winds through a street in the old quarter section of downtown Hanoi.
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  • Solar water heaters in an apartment courtyard near the Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • View from mount Hamilton road "$" sculpture made from recycled computers. (1999).
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.  The worker holding the flag (known as a "flagger") marks the row where the duster needs to spray next. Flagman at the end of rice field, with seeder plane approaching.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_06_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California. The worker holding the flag (known as a "flagger") marks the row where the duster needs to spray next. Flagman at the end of rice field, with seeder plane approaching.
    USA_AG_CRPD_27_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_26_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_05_xs.jpg
  • Harris Ranch feeding lot in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Darel Walton and his new bride on the porch of their rented rural house near Charlotte, Tennessee. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kuwait: Magwa oil field, British explosive ordnance disposal, Rockeye submunition..
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  • he devastated desert landscape in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • A woman balancing buckets on her shoulders walks near Xingping town near Guilin, China on the Li River. Karst formations in background.
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. This photo was made with a five-minute time exposure. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 1992..
    USA_SCI_WX_23_xs.jpg
  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 1992..
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  • Static electricity. A child plays with a plasma globe in a museum. A plasma globe is a large glass vessel, containing a gas at low pressure. A voltage of static electricity is applied between the metal sphere at centre and the glass. Static discharge across the gas causes its atoms to lose their electrons, a 'plasma' state. When the nuclei and their electrons recombine, they emit a characteristic color light. Placing an object against the glass, such as the child's hand, concentrates the local static charge and creates the beautiful 'streamer' effect seen here. Photographed at the Boston Museum of Science. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Bill Wysock in his backyard, in Monrovia (near Hollywood), California. Fiery sparks crackle from a metal tube as he also lights a 40-watt light bulb in his hands. He is sitting on a metal disk linked by a cable to his Tesla coil: a transformer producing high-frequency currents that pass safely over the surface of his body. Low-frequency currents would pass through it, meeting resistance and causing injury. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_10_xs.jpg
  • Static electricity. Young boy holding the dome of a Van de Graaff generator, which makes his hair stand on end. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the boy touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to his hands, and through to his hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end. Photographed at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Van de Graaff generator display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pamela Gross demonstrates static electricity. A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator used to produce a high voltage, usually in the megavolt range. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented it. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the boy touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to his hands, and through to his hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end. (1991)
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_03_xs.jpg
  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Sam Tucker, lobsterman and fish buyer at Portland Maine Fish Exchange on Great Diamond Island in Portland, Maine, heads to work. (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  •  Katherine Navas, a high school student  (behind counter in shop on right), tends to a customer behind the counter of her stepfather's Internet and copy shop in Caracus, Venezuela. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Bars on all the windows, doors, and balconies signal that security is a major concern in this neighborhood. Caracas was the murder capital of the world in 2008; 50 murders in one weekend is not unheard of. Local gangs are viciously territorial and ruthless in their victimization of the hardworking, law-abiding majority. Noemi Hurtado, an 83-year-old who has lived a stone's throw from Katherine's house for the past 51 years, has never once crossed into the barrio of La Silsa. ?It's too dangerous,? she says. ?I would never go there.? When Noemi moved to western Caracas, the La Silsa barrio didn't yet exist; the hills surrounding the valley were forested and, she remembers, there were waterfalls
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  • Michael Rae, on a weekday morning run near his suburban Philadelphia home (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in July was fixed at 1,900 kcals. He is 32; 5'11,5" and 114 pounds. Michael is research assistant to the theoretician and biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, and they are the coauthors of the book Ending Aging.
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  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two-story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
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  • When the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania (no steam rising from the abandoned cooling towers on the left) failed catastrophically in 1979, the intense radioactivity in the plant prevented its owners from surveying and repairing the damage. Four years later, with conditions still unknown, Carnegie Mellon engineer William L. "Red" Whittaker designed several remote-controlled robots that were able to venture into the radioactive plant. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 140.
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  • Harris Ranch feeding lot in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented the generator in 1931. (1992)
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