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The Ferocious Beauty Of Iceland’s Volcanoes
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Swedish photographer and geologist Frederick Holm has spent years hunting down volcanic eruptions across Iceland. Why someone would spend so much time in such a forbidding place doing such dangerous work becomes abundantly clear when you see the raw, ferocious beauty of these volcanic eruptions up close. Holm has captured smoke plumes that look as if they’ve come from a painter’s brush, sparks that outdo any fireworks show we could ever create, and lava flowing off mountainsides just like a waterfall. For more, visit The Washington Post.
Meet Humankind’s Newly Discovered Ancestor
Deep within a South African cave, more than 100 years from its entrance, in a small chamber nearly blocked off by a crawl space just ten inches high and a rock formation known as the Dragon’s Back, researchers have found a new human ancestor that changes the story of our evolution. The newly discovered Homo naledi is just different enough from our other ancestors to warrant its own new species name. At nearly five feet tall with a rather small brain and ape-like shoulders for climbing, H. naledi offers a glimpse of a kind of primitive human that we had not yet seen. Researchers are already claiming that this new species complicates what we thought we knew about our evolutionary tree. To find out just how and why, go to National Geographic.
An artist’s rendering of the H. naledi group disposing of a member’s corpse in a cave. This is thought to be the reason the remains were found where they were. Image Source:news.nationalgeographic.com
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Three of humankind’s most important ancestors, from left: “Lucy,” “Turkana Boy,” and H. naledi. Image Source:news.nationalgeographic.com
Japan Under Water
More than 100,000 people were forced from their homes on Friday as flood waters tore through the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures, north of Tokyo. Following heavy rain caused by Typhoon Etau, rivers in these prefectures burst their banks and unleashed devastation throughout the region. Massive amounts of evacuees have already been lifted out by helicopter and taken to shelters as officials warn that further flooding and mudslides are still to come. See the destruction up close at The Atlantic.
A hotel building falls into the floodwaters at the Nikko mountain resort in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Image Source: www.theatlantic.com
The Photographers Who Bring The Tragically Overlooked Into Focus
Photographer Matt Eich received a grant for his coverage of poverty, heroin, and the oil and gas industries in southeastern Ohio. Here, Richie Goins Jr. watches from the window of his parents’ trailer as cinder blocks are brought in as the foundation for his grandmother’s new trailer. Image Source: lens.blogs.nytimes.com
With no shortage of clamorous tragedy around the world, it’s easy for the relatively quiet struggles to go unnoticed. Prostitution in India’s ghettos, heroin and poverty in southeastern Ohio, drug-related violence in Naples Italy–these issues just don’t get all that many headlines. This is just part of the reason that, each year for the past ten years, Getty has awarded generous grants to the photographers who are capturing these slowly corrosive societal ills. See this year’s results at The New York Times.
Salvatore Esposito received a grant for his work on the societal ills of Naples, Italy, including crime, drugs, and AIDS. Here, a man wih a gun rests on the roof of a house. Image Source:lens.blogs.nytimes.com
Living With The Nomads Of The Mongolian Steppe
In the 21st century, the idea of a nomad–a true nomad–is certainly a rare thing. But for the residents of the Mongolian steppe, it is simply a way of life, and has been for centuries. But, that said, being a nomad in the 21st century might not be exactly what you think. Between 60 and 70 percent have electricity and many have mobile phones (as well as other modern conveniences). Nevertheless, these herders, high up on some of the world’s most remote plains, have preserved centuries-old traditions of striking uniqueness and beauty.
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