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A man stood in his home Wednesday after it was destroyed in Tuesday’s collapse of the archive building in Cologne, Germany. Crews searched rubble Wednesday for two missing people and for historic documents. The mayor said nearby subway work would be exa91 views
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A woman in Yangon123 viewsA woman in Yangon, which was formely called Rangoon. Yangon remains a semi-rural city, with dirt roads and downtown buildings topped with corrugated metal roofs.. (The Wall Street Journal)
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MINARET OF THE GREAT MOSQUE OF AGADEZ, Niger. By Yann Arthus Bertrand45 viewsThe Great Mosque of Agadez, at the foot of the Aïr mountains at the center of Niger, was built in the sixteenth century when the city was at the height of its power. This dried-earth building in the “Sudanese” style is crowned with a pyramidal minaret that is 90 feet (27 m) high, bristling with thirteen rows of stakes that reinforce the fragile structure and serve as scaffolding for the periodic restoration of its surface. Agadez, known as the “gate to the desert,” is the last major settlement before the Sahara and an important commercial center. It stands at the intersection of important trans-Saharan caravan routes. It is one of the holy cities of Islam, and its population is predominantly Muslim, as is 99 percent of Niger. At the dawn of the third millennium, Islam has more than 1.1 billion followers worldwide, the second-largest religion in the world.
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VILLAGE ON THE BANKS OF AN ARM OF THE NIGER RIVER, Mopti region,33 viewsAs it crosses Mali, the Niger River divides up into branches, forming a vast interior delta in the plain of Massina. Flowing at 230,000 cubic feet (7,000 m3) per second, the river is a great boon to the residents of this dry region, the majority of whom live on the riverbanks. Living at the rhythm of the seasonal floods that occur from August to January, they practice river trade, fishing, herding, and farming. The Mopti region has become not only a major commercial center but also a crossroads where the diverse populations of the region meet: Bozo fishermen, nomadic Peul shepherds, Bambara farmers as well as the Songhai, Tuareg, and Dogon. The nation is 90 percent Muslim, and the mosque is usually the main building of each town or village, overlooking the landscape from an impressive height.
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AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE BETWEEN AL MASSIRA DAM AND RABAT, Morocco. By Yann Arthus Bertrand32 viewsModern Moroccan agriculture, based essentially on intensive production of cereals (such as wheat, barley, and corn), depends on irrigation because of the arid and semi-arid climate that characterizes most of the territory. Richer in streams and rivers than the other Maghreb countries, Morocco has been building large dams that now enable it to irrigate a total of 3.2 million acres (1.3 million hectares). The dams’ combined storage capacity, which was about 3 billion cubic yards (2.3 billion m3) in 1967, was close to 11 billion cubic yards (15 billion m3) by 2001 for 97 dams. The country’s irrigation monopolizes 90 percent of total water demand. Although new dams are planned, the gradual silting up of reservoirs is already depriving the country of 65 million cubic yards (50 million m3) of stockpiling capacity each year (or potential irrigation of 12,000 acres). The problem is inspiring soil restoration measures to combat erosion (caused by severe rainy periods on excessively dried-up slopes). It will remain a problem, nevertheless, for the coming decades.
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EARTHQUAKE AT GÖLCÜK, ON THE COAST OF THE SEA OF MARMARA,68 viewsThe earthquake that struck the region of Izmit on August 17, 1999, at 3:02 a.m., registered 7.4 on the Richter scale (9 is the maximum). Its epicenter was at Gölcük, an industrial city with a population of 65,000. The quake had an official death toll of at least 20,000 people, many buried in rubble while they slept. The partial or total collapse of 50,000 buildings led to enormous public outrage against building contractors, who were accused of disregarding earthquake-proof construction codes. Southern and northern Turkey are sliding along the North Anatolian fault at an average relative speed of 1 inch (2.5 cm) per year, but the movement actually occurs quite abruptly, in the form of earthquakes—the Earth moved nearly 10 feet (3 m) in less than a minute during the Izmit earthquake. Regions bordering tectonic plates, such as the trans-Asian zone running from the Azores to Indonesia by way of Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iran, are particularly exposed to the risk of seismic activity. Inhabitants of this zone account for 90 percent of earthquake-related deaths since 1990. The tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in December 2004 was responsible for the deaths of 295,000 people in Southeast Asia, more than the earthquake death toll worldwide over the previous decade.
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The colourful apartment buildings of Tirana - davduf31 views
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VILLAGE IN THE RHERIS VALLEY, Er Rachidia region, High Atlas. By Yann Arthus Bertrand26 viewsFortified villages are frequent along the valley of the Rheris, as
they are on most rivers of southern Morocco, inspired by the Berber
architecture built to protect against invaders. Today, with the
threat of raids now gone, the close clustering of dwellings, small
windows, and roofs covering houses and narrow streets serve the
purpose of protecting occupants from heat and dust. The flat,
connecting roofs also provide a place for drying crops. Perfectly
integrated into the landscape, the houses are usually built out of
adobe clay and chalk found in the area. Hardy in appearance, these
buildings are actually fragile because they are made of brittle
materials. Half of the buildings constructed fifty years ago are in
ruins today.
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Soldiers carry a wounded elderly man out from a collapsed building in Beichuan County73 viewsSoldiers carry a wounded elderly man out from a collapsed building in Beichuan County, May 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Guangquan CHINA).
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By G.Steimentz27 viewsPatio chairs and a satellite dish (lower left) mark one home as claimed in a new suburban development in Shenyang. The Chinese government estimates that the country is adding five to six billion square feet of floor space to its residential and commercial building stock every year.
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the old fishing piers of the Texas Bolivar Peninsula50 views
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