Browse Items (1006 total)

Still Standing- A lone house sits without a scratch as more than 6,000 acres burned around it in the Poppet Flats area of Riverside County, California on July 26, 2003.

Heavy rain falls and lightning strikes near the Excelsior Lutheran Church near Wilson, Kan. at dusk on Monday, March 17, 2003. Monday night brought storms and heavy rains to some areas of western, Kan. that have not seen significant rain fall in many…

A Grey Headed Flying Fox skims a creek in an effort to soak his body with cooling water as temperatures reach 45 degree Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in Sydney's western suburbs Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003. Up to a thousand from a colony of about 15,000 of…

On a remote mountain slope near Rio lives the last remaining population of a primitive amaryllis. The area burned shortly after this photograph was taken, jeopardizing the species.

With the temperature in the teens, a red-winged blackbird can see its breath as it sings in record-breaking cold weather, April 18, 2003, in Woolwich, Maine. Several towns in the state recorded temperatures in the single digits.

A reindeer team pulling sleds sleds packed with supplies gets ready to plunge into a swollen stream on Siberia's Yamal Peninsula, located above the Arctic Circle, during a snow storm at midnight June 9-10 2003. The reindeer move northwards on…