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A Fox Coal Company dump truck plants a load of dirt on the Graffiti Highway in April 2020. It took about 400 loads to cover the one-mile stretch of road.
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The End of Centralia's Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic 'Graffiti Highway'

First the fractured stretch of road became a canvas, then a gathering place. Now it will become forest.
Julie Knutson September 14, 2020
Just offshore from the postcard-worthy landscapes is a seismic threat as catastrophic as any on earth.
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A Massive Earthquake Is Coming to Cascadia—And It Can't Be Stopped

But it can be anticipated and mitigated. Meet four guardians of the Pacific Northwest.
Kaitlyn Schwalje August 25, 2020
Holly, Colorado

Pleasant Hill Memorial

A monument at the site of the Towner School Bus Tragedy, which lead to changes in school bus safety.
Angola, New York

Site of the Angola Horror

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.
Permanently Closed
A few walls are still standing at the base of the chimney. The mine ceased operations in May, 1945.
Millfield, Ohio

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.
The gentle, almost soothing aftermath of Krakatoa.
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See the Soft Aquarelle Watercolors That Resulted From Krakatoa’s Big Bang

A set of paintings show the calm, lingering aftermath of a world-shaking event.
Isaac Schultz April 13, 2020
One pantry's rice and beans is another pantry's fufu and cattail roots.
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Around the World in 6 Quarantine Pantries

How chefs in Bolivia, Malaysia, Italy, Rwanda, Canada, and Thailand are preparing for lockdown.
Luke Fater April 9, 2020
Barnsley Main Colliery
Barnsley, England

Barnsley Main Colliery

These ruins are a monument to the region's industrial heritage, and the site of England's worst mining tragedy.
Hail struck Parliament House in Canberra on January 20, 2020.
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Australia Needs Slow and Steady Rain—Not Golf Ball-Sized Hail

The fire-scorched landscape needs water. But not the kind that recently fell on Canberra.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 24, 2020
San Michele Arcangelo Hypogeum.
Torre del Greco, Italy

San Michele Arcangelo Hypogeum

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.
At a Sacramento gurdwara, Amarjit Singh dishes up food to a family forced to evacuate under the threat of a catastrophic dam spillway collapse in 2017.
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When Disasters Hit California, Sikh Temples Provide Meals and Refuge

Sikhs statewide have organized to feed their fellow Californians in crisis.
Teresa Mathew January 2, 2020
Alice Miceli, <em>Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, PTT-8 Sign, Highly Contaminated Ground, Belarus</em>, 2008
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The Photographer Who X-Rayed Chernobyl

How to make the invisible visible.
Winnie Lee December 4, 2019
Natatio (pool) and peristyl einside Villa San Marco.
Castellammare di Stabia, Italy

Villa San Marco

For centuries, this large Roman villa remained hidden thanks to the eruption that buried nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The ruins of the Malpasset Dam.
Fréjus, France

Barrage de Malpasset (Malpasset Dam)

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.
Attabad Lake in 2016.
Hunza Nagar, Pakistan

Attabad Lake

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.
A crab crusted in parasites.
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A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland

A nightmare at 6,000 feet.
Sabrina Imbler September 18, 2019
Belfast Titanic Memorial Garden.
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast Titanic Memorial Garden

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.
Vulcan Mine coal tipple.
New Castle, Colorado

Vulcan Mine

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.