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The Johnstown flood destroyed both housing and privacy.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania as it recovered from the deluge that once again challenged the wisdom of living on a flood-prone plane.

Little Maria holds a toy as her grandfather warms himself outside the tent in this southern Italian village battered by snow Sunday. Calabritto is one of the many villages leveled by last Sunday's earthquake.

Series of photographs of the people involved in the Love Canal disaster.

Her apartment destroyed by fire, a victim rests in fire truck.

A brush fire, fanned by 100 mile-per-hour winds swept down from the foothills surrounding San Bernardino. Within an hour whole blocks of homes were burning, the fire moving from house to house like a blowtorch. Nearly 300 homes burned, as well as…

Burn victim Jerry Morse was electrocuted by 14,000 volts in a work related accident. He is working out on a weight machine to keep his body and skin in shape. His doctor told him if he did not stretch his skin he would never be able to fully extend…

A naval officer receives a warm welcome from his wife and baby after a six month tour of duty in the Atlantic.

Lake Tahoe's pristine waters are slowly being obscured by algal growth. Nutrients released during the urbanization of this alpine basin, are stimulating the process of eutrophication. A botanist from the University of California injects…

A woman underneath an umbrella and standing in the middle of a shamrock.