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Mortal Combat: El Salvador’s Fireball Street Fight
It looks like a warzone or at least a riot in full swing. Fireballs tear through the streets painting the night air orange as young men, their faces emblazoned with fearsome patterns, prowl the streets waging in pitched battles against one another. The incendiary missiles explode on impact – sometimes in the faces of their targets. Pyromaniacs take note. If you love fire, you’ll be blown away by the Bolas de Fuego festival in El Salvador.
Continue reading...Warehouse Vs. Fire
Monday, September 21, 2009
Controlling fire is a human skill developed many thousands of years ago. Yet when we’re unable to defeat it, what strikes us is not only the destruction in a fire’s path but also its strange beauty, which we watch with guilty pleasure. A warehouse fire in Helsinki’s city centre left many bystanders mesmerized. One of them was Petteri Sulonen who grabbed his telephoto lens as soon as he heard news of the fire and rushed to the site. The result is this stunning series of photographs.
Continue reading...The Incredible Phenomenon of Ball Lightning
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The thunder cracked and the professor’s heart began to beat with excitement. The meeting at the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg could wait; there were more important matters at stake. Georg Wilhelm Richmann hurried home, accompanied by his engraver, Sokolaw. His aim was to capture the lightning storm for future generations. However, and he did not count on the strange and potentially deadly phenomenon we now know as ball lightning.
Continue reading...Most Beautiful and Devastating Snapshots of Slums
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
One billion people – a sixth of the world’s population – now live in slums, and it is predicted that the number of slum dwellers will double within the next quarter of a century. Such statistics are as staggering as they are sobering. Yet beneath the shacks and lean-tos of corrugated metal, plywood and plastic sheets, communities thrive and individuals meet the daily challenges their lives throw up at them.
Continue reading...Shots from the Edge: Fire, Earth, Water & Air
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Photographer Tumanc takes photographs at the limits – at points where opposing forces meet, complementing or conflicting with each another. Humans encounter the elements in spectacular style, and unless they play nature’s game are rendered insignificant by a greater might. The different elements meet one another too, earth, water, fire and air clashing and creating magical effects.
Continue reading...8 Amazing Technicolor Images of Nuclear Fireballs
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Continuing our nuclear theme this week, I thought it might be interesting to showcase some of the most amazing images of destruction that man and nature have ever devised. “Licorne” test in French Polynesia 1970, (France) Destruction can often be eerily beautiful. It can also remind us of [...]
Continue reading...5 incredible works of an insane explosive artist [pics]
Friday, March 7, 2008
Nothing lasts forever. We’re very aware of that, being environmentalists. However, some of the most beautiful and incredible occurrences are ephemeral, creative and destructive all at the same time. The above are all vital elements of the genious explosive artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s work. Although not strictly environmental, more [...]
Continue reading...Chiang Mai: Where Influential Locals Meet to Set Forest Fires
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Richard Rhodes continues his commentary on the burning fires he is witnessing from the jungle in Thailand. A unique insight into perhaps the single biggest factor behind global warming: forest fires. A new report suggests that sharks aren’t too keen on rising sea temperatures so they’re off to [...]
Continue reading...Vampires of the Forest
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Under my pillow I keep an antique Burmese sword. It should be in a display cabinet or high up on the wall. But then it is winter time in these parts, and it’s not only the cold wind that sends a shiver down your spine. And
Continue reading...50 Year-Old Fire Extinguished
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Smoke pours from underground coal fires in China A more than 50 year-old coal fire in China has finally been put out. The fire, in the Terak coal field in Xinjiang region’s capital of Urumqi, had burned through almost
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
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