| December 19, 2013 |
Documenting the
power of humans and nature resulted in images that depict great
achievements and horrible destruction. Here is a selection of images
from May - August 2013 from around the world (and here's Jan.-April and Sept.-Dec.). --Leanne Burden Seidel (32 photos total)
A
man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore,
May 9. Fire erupted on the seventh floor of the LDA plaza in Lahore and
quickly spread to higher floors leaving many people trapped inside the
building. At least three people fell from the high floors trying to
avoid the fire that engulfed the building. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)#
Rescue
workers break away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck
inside a sewage pipe in the city of Jinhua, in the eastern province of
Zhejiang. The newborn baby boy was rescued in a Chinese apartment
building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said, provoking
online outrage on May 28. (AFPTV/AFP/Getty Images)#
Vincent
Autin (R) and Bruno Boileau kiss on a balcony in front of the crowd
after their marriage, France's first official gay marriage, in the city
hall in Montpellier on May 29. France is the 14th country to legalize
same-sex marriage, an issue that has also divided opinion in many other
nations. (Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images)#
A
submerged statue of the Hindu Lord Shiva stands amid the floodwaters of
the Ganges river at Rishikesh in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand
June 17. Early monsoon rains have swollen the Ganges, India's longest
river, swept away houses, killed at least 60 people and left tens of
thousands stranded. (Reuters)#
Egyptians
wave national flags as fireworks light the sky over Tahrir Square,
where hundreds thousands opponents of Egypt's Islamist President
Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Cairo, Egypt, July 3. Egyptian military
announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected
leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has
replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional
Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the
Islamist-backed constitution. (Amr Nabil/Associated Press)#
An
excavator is used to move villagers away from a flooded area during
heavy rainfall in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, July 10.
More than 300 hundred people were evacuated in Yingxiu after roads
connecting the township to the outside world were cut off by floods and
landslides. (Reuters)#
Trayvon
Martin supporters rally in Times Square while blocking traffic after
marching from a rally for Martin in Union Square in Manhattan on July 14
in New York City. George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges in the
shooting death of Martin July 13 and many protesters questioned the
verdict. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)#
Tourists
and inhabitants find shelter in the sea as a wildfire approaches the
village of Megalo Livadi in Serifos island at the Aegean sea, Greece,
July 27. Major wildfires raged at the island of Rhodes and Crete as the
one in Serifos was brought under control on early July 28. (Chloe
Kritharas/EPA)#
Water
is seen on part of the glacial ice sheet that covers about 80 percent
of the country is seen on July 17 on the Glacial Ice Sheet, Greenland.
As the sea levels around the globe rise, researchers affilitated with
the National Science Foundation and other organizations are studying the
phenomena of the melting glaciers and its long-term ramifications. The
warmer temperatures that have had an effect on the glaciers in Greenland
also have altered the ways in which the local populace farm, fish, hunt
and even travel across land. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)#
Pakistani
student Malala Yousafzai is greeted by United Nations Secretary General
Ban Ki-Moon (2nd L), Vuk Jeremic (R), President of the UN General
Assembly, and Gordon Brown (L, back to camera), United Nations Special
Envoy for Global Education July 12, at UN headquarters in New York
during the UN Youth Assembly. Yousafzai became a public figure when she
was shot by the Taliban while travelling to school last year in Pakistan
-- targeted because of her committed campaigning for the right of all
girls to an education. The UN has declared July 12 "Malala Day", which
is also Yousafzai's birthday, and will host the UN Youth Assembly. (Stan
Honda/AFP/Getty Images)#
An
injured man sits next to the body of a victim covered with a blanket
following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. A
train hurtled off the tracks on July 24 in northwest Spain killing at
least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, the country's deadliest
rail disaster in more than 40 years. (Xoan A. Soler/AFP/Getty Images)#
Song Xuxia, 19, receives treatment at a hospital after a 6.6 magnitude
earthquake hit Minxian county, Dingxi, Gansu province, July 23. The
death toll from two earthquakes in China's western Gansu province has
climbed to 95, with more than 1000 people injured, after around 51,800
buildings collapsed and tens of thousands more were badly damaged.
Song's leg, waist and face were injured during the earthquake when she
was stuck in a collapsed house. Fortunately the villagers heard her cry
and managed to pull her out from the debris in time. (Reuters)#
Fire-fighters
spray water near a burning house in the Twin Pines Road area where the
Silver Fire is raging, near Banning, California August 7. The fire broke
out near a back-country road south of Banning, about 90 miles (145 km)
outside Los Angeles in Riverside County, and within hours had blackened
more than 5,000 acres. (David McNew /Reuters)#
A
man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people activists say
were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma
neighbourhood of Damascus August 21. Syrian activists said at least 213
people, including women and children, were killed in a nerve gas attack
by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on rebel-held districts of the
Ghouta region east of Damascus. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)#
Students
with the Dupont Park Adventist School take part in a march 'For Jobs
and Justice' on Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington DC, USA, August 28. The march and ceremony commemorated the
50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington led by the late Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., where he famously gave his 'I Have a Dream'
speech. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)#
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