Wildfires in the mountains of Cape Town
Five houses and a hotel were destroyed and dozens of people evacuated from their homes as wildfires raged through Cape Town’s scenic southern peninsula. More →
Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World
Five houses and a hotel were destroyed and dozens of people evacuated from their homes as wildfires raged through Cape Town’s scenic southern peninsula. More →
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Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment Nation, Weather Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Bayfield Peninsula, ice caves, Lake Superior, Wisconsin
Lake Superior finally froze enough last week to allow access to one of northern Wisconsin’s most stunning natural formations: the Bayfield Peninsula’s lakeshore caves. The caves are part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and have been carved out of red, orange and yellow layers of sandstone over millenniums of wave action.
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(Reporting by Liam Ford, photography by Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune)
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Sometimes, the best photos don’t come from photo stories, but are just slices of every day life found by photographers or taken on daily assignments.
Quinn Kelley 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World Afghanistan, avalanche, Kabul
An avalanche in Afghanistan wreaked havoc on the Abdullah Khil village of Panjshir province, northeast of Kabul. An Afghan provincial official said the death toll from the massive avalanche in a mountainous valley near the capital Kabul rose to almost 200 as bulldozers and other machinery began clearing roads and rescue teams were able to reach remote villages that have been cut off for almost a week. The official said as rescue workers dig through the snow, they are uncovering more bodies, including women and children.
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