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Agricultural Patterns
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Published May 30, 2006
Around the world, agricultural practices have developed as a function of topography, soil type, crop type, annual rainfall, and tradition. This montage of six images from shows differences in field geometry and size in different parts of the world.
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San Francisco Peaks Volcano Field
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Published May 23, 2006
Northern Arizona is best known for the Grand Canyon. Less widely known are the hundreds of geologically young volcanoes scattered across the southern portion of the Colorado Plateau at the eastern foothills of the San Francisco Peaks.
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Three Gorges Dam, China
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Published May 20, 2006
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Mount Ubinas, Peru
Published May 10, 2006
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Mount Merapi, Indonesia
Published May 4, 2006
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Floods in Central Europe
Published April 26, 2006
Heavy rain and melting snow drove rivers across Central Europe over their banks in early April 2006.
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Floods on the Danube River
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Restless Augustine Island
Published April 21, 2006
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Grassfire in Iceland
Published April 7, 2006
At the end of March 2006, a grassfire broke out in western Iceland, perhaps as a result of a smoldering cigarette butt. Although this area near the coast to the northwest of the country’s capital, Reykjavik, is typically very wet, a period of persistent north winds dried out the grass and made it flammable.
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