The broken spillway of a vanadium mine is seen in Shanyang county, Shaanxi province, China, on July 22
This September 10 image, taken by the crew of the International Space Station flying 220 statute miles above Earth, shows Hurricane Ike
In this September 12 photo, a home burns on the beach on Galveston Island, Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches
People seek refuge from flood waters in east Nepal in August 2008. More than two million people were affected by flooding after a dam burst
In this October 13 photo, traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind-driven brush fire in Los Angeles
The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3
A soldier on the banks of the Rio Blanco looks at a cloud of ash from the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile on June 25
