The 1930s were some of the driest years in American history. Eight long years of drought, preceded by inappropriate cultivation technique, and the financial crises of the Great Depression forced many farmers off the land abandoning their fields throughout the Great Plains that run across the heart of mainland United States. Continue reading
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Fractal: A Magnificent Supercell Thunderstorm Timelapse
For the last decade, Kansas-based photographer Chad Cowan has driven almost 100,000 miles across the United States chasing powerful supercell thunderstorms and recording them in high definition. Continue reading
Extreme Weather: Storm Chaser Photography
Jonas Piontek is a talented self-taught photographer, travel enthusiast, student and storm chaser from Grünberg, Hessen who currently based in Lich, Hesse, Germany. Continue reading
Helicopter Ship Landing in a Massive Storm
Watch this helicopter landing on a ship during a massive storm…
Testing the Danish Air Force boundaries, when a new Seahawk MH-60R attempting to land on a ship, in strong gale in the North Atlantic. Continue reading
Spaso-Kamenny Monastery
The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 500 kilometers north of Moscow. It is distinguished as the first stone monastery of the Russian North. Continue reading
Protection
by José Mingorance, National Geographic