2. Oct. 25, 2014, a photographer runs as Mount Sinabung
volcano erupts with ash clouds, as seen from Karo
3. Brookhaven police monitor a car fire in a vehicle left overnight by
a motorist who was stranded by impassable roads after winter
weather moved through Georgia, Jan. 29, 2014, in Brookhaven,
Ga
4. Sunlight streams through the windows of a building which caught
on fire in Plattsmouth, Neb., Jan. 3, 2014. The water sprayed by
6. King Fire on Sept. 17, 2014, in Fresh Pond, Calif
7. April 20, 2014, in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. People continue to
rebuild their lives five months after Typhoon Haiyan struck the
coast on Nov. 8, 2013, leaving more than 6000 dead and many
more homeless
8. Tornado April 29, 2014, in Vilonia, Ark. Deadly tornadoes
ripped through the region on April 27, leaving more than a dozen
dead
9. Houses in Blackett Close are inundated with flood water on
Feb. 16, 2014, in Staines-Upon-Thames, England. Housing
near the river Thames has suffered flooding after the river
10. A paddle boarder floats on the waters of Shasta Lake near the
Shasta Marina Resort on Aug. 30, 2014, in Lakehead, Calif
11. Mountains of used tires lay on a dump in the countryside on Sept.
24, 2014, in Sesena Nuevo, near Madrid, Spain. Used tires dump
site in Sesena is a major environmental problem and was
declared illegal back in 2003. It currently stores over 75.000 tons
of tires.
12. 2014 Winter Olympics at Laura Cross-country Ski & Biathlon
Center on Feb. 21, 2014, in Sochi, Russia
14. The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus
spacecraft onboard, suffers a catastrophic anomaly moments after
launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at NASA
21. Sept. 8, 2014 International
Highline Meeting in Monte
Piana, near Misurina, in the
northern Italian Alps
22. The shore of Bounty Bay on Pitcairn
Island on March 5, 2014. The island has
a population of only 48.
23. Residence du Havre after a fire in L'Isle Verte,
Quebec, Jan. 23, 2014. The water sprayed by
fire fighters is seen frozen
24. Fireworks on the new year's celebration at Copacabana
beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Jan. 1, 2014.
25. Toughmudder at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit on March
22, 2014, in Phillip Island, Australia.
26. In this aerial
photo, traffic is
snarled along the I-
285 perimeter
north of the metro
area after a winter
snow storm, Jan.
29, 2014, in
Atlanta.
27. A plane drops fire retardant over a hot spot on May 14, 2014,
in San Marcos, Calif. Flames engulfed suburban homes and
shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several
blazes that broke out in Southern California during a second
28. The surface of the 67P/Churyumov-
Gerasimenko comet as seen from
the Philae lander, which landed on
the comet's surface, on Nov. 13,
2014.
29. The massive mudslide that killed 43 people and
left dozens missing is shown in this aerial photo,
March 24, 2014, near Arlington, Wash.
31. After flooding in Rawalpindi on Sept. 6, 2014. More than 200
people in Pakistan and northern India have been killed in
torrential monsoon rains which triggered flooding, landslides
32. Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
at the Sanki Sliding Center on
Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.
33. Ice builds up along Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach as
temperatures dipped well below zero on Jan. 6, 2014, in
Chicago.
35. With the rising tide at twilight, the Arribada turtles arrive
on Ridley Beach in Costa Rica on May 27, 2014. They are
the smallest marine turtles with a length of 55 to 75
centimeter
36. Ice on the St. Joseph
lighthouse in St. Joseph,
Mich. on Nov. 22, 2014.
37. Freestyle Skiing Ladies' Aerials Finals on day seven of the
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on
Feb. 14, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
38. Aug. 17, 2014, monsoon floods at Nalanda
district of Bihar, India.
39. Mud and sludge caused by a mudslide at the Koslanda tea
plantation in Badulla district, about 140 miles east of
Colombo, Sri Lanka, Oct. 30, 2014.
46. A bridge grown from the roots of a rubber tree on April 10,
2014. In the relentless damp of Meghalaya's jungles, wooden
structures rot away too quickly to be practical.
47. May 2, 2014, photo, an abandoned
Red Cross Hospital in the
Northern region of Italy