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  • October 3, 2018 - Buenos Aires, Federal Capital, Argentina - This Wednesday, October 3 was held in the Congress of the Argentine Nation a day of protest by a commission of the Intersindical Basin Carbonifera River Turbio in the context of the Carboniferous Field conflict and repudiation of the national budget 2019. Beginning With different union activities and accompanying other guilds in their struggle, the mining workers carried out what was called ''El Carbonazo'' as a symbolic embrace in front of the National Lesgilatura in the City of Buenos Aires. They literally took the coal to the doors of the Congress, in support and in defense of the company Carbonifera (YCRT). In addition to the symbolic embrace there was a march around the Plaza Los Dos Congresos. (Credit Image: ©  Roberto Almeida Aveledo/ZUMA Wire)
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  • March 17, 2020, USA: A very sparse crowd of people visit the Tidal Basin and the blossoming cherry blossoms as the United States deals with the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, DC. (Credit Image: © Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Wire)
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  • San Cristobal, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves north of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic.  They contain over 6000 drawings, pictographs, and petroglyphs of the Pre-Columbian Taino, Caribe, and Igneri cutlures.  It is the largest oncentration of ancient rock art in all the Caribbean Basin.  Some of the paintings are up to 2000 years old.  Cave Number 1 contains 590 painted figures of animals, birds, fish, reptiles and people.  The paint was a mixture of charcoal and animal fat.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • San Cristobal, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves north of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic.  They contain over 6000 drawings, pictographs, and petroglyphs of the Pre-Columbian Taino, Caribe, and Igneri cutlures.  It is the largest oncentration of ancient rock art in all the Caribbean Basin.  Some of the paintings are up to 2000 years old.  Cave Number 1 contains 590 painted figures of animals, birds, fish, reptiles and people.  The paint was a mixture of charcoal and animal fat.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • San Cristobal, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves north of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic.  They contain over 6000 drawings, pictographs, and petroglyphs of the Pre-Columbian Taino, Caribe, and Igneri cutlures.  It is the largest oncentration of ancient rock art in all the Caribbean Basin.  Some of the paintings are up to 2000 years old.  Cave Number 1 contains 590 painted figures of animals, birds, fish, reptiles and people.  The paint was a mixture of charcoal and animal fat.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • San Cristobal, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Modern graffiti from in the Pomier Caves alongside ancient indigenous pictographs.  The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves north of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic.  They contain over 6000 drawings, pictographs, and petroglyphs of the Pre-Columbian Taino, Caribe, and Igneri cutlures.  It is the largest oncentration of ancient rock art in all the Caribbean Basin.  Some of the paintings are up to 2000 years old.  Cave Number 1 contains 590 painted figures of animals, birds, fish, reptiles and people.  The paint was a mixture of charcoal and animal fat.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • May 3, 2019 - Mumbai, India - Labourers carry baskets containing salt near electricity pylons at a salt pan in Mumbai, India on 03 May 2019. (Credit Image: © Himanshu Bhatt/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • August 19, 2017 - Islampur, Jamalpur, Bangladesh - Young boy carries relief to his roadside shelter in Islampur, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, on 19 August 2017. (Credit Image: © Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • Nigua, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Ruins of the Nigua Sugar Mill, or Ingenio Boca de Nigua, built in the 1600's in Nigua in the Dominican Republic.  In 1796, it was the site of the first slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola.  It was partially restored in the 1970's.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • Nigua, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Ruins of the Nigua Sugar Mill, or Ingenio Boca de Nigua, built in the 1600's in Nigua in the Dominican Republic.  In 1796, it was the site of the first slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola.  It was partially restored in the 1970's.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • Nigua, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Ruins of the Nigua Sugar Mill, or Ingenio Boca de Nigua, built in the 1600's in Nigua in the Dominican Republic.  In 1796, it was the site of the first slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola.  It was partially restored in the 1970's.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • ,  - 4/4/2017 - Statue of a Taino figure as seen in pictographs in the Pomier Caves Anthroplogical Reserve near San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic.  The figure is performing a religious ceremony involving inhaling hallucinagenic dust from a pipe.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • Nigua, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Ruins of the Nigua Sugar Mill, or Ingenio Boca de Nigua, built in the 1600's in Nigua in the Dominican Republic.  In 1796, it was the site of the first slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola.  It was partially restored in the 1970's.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • Nigua, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Ruins of the Nigua Sugar Mill, or Ingenio Boca de Nigua, built in the 1600's in Nigua in the Dominican Republic.  In 1796, it was the site of the first slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola.  It was partially restored in the 1970's.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • Nigua, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Ruins of the Nigua Sugar Mill, or Ingenio Boca de Nigua, built in the 1600's in Nigua in the Dominican Republic.  In 1796, it was the site of the first slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola.  It was partially restored in the 1970's.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • San Cristobal, Dominican Republic - 4/4/2017 - Welcome sign at the Pomier Caves Anthroplogical Reserve near San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic.(Photo by Jon G. Fuller/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • Dubbed by some as Walking Shops, ladies carry fruit in their buckets, selling as they go.
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  • Cape Grace basin in Cape Town.
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  • The Taklimakan desert is one of the driest, most barren expanses on Earth. Flanked by mountain ranges on three sides and parched by the resulting rain shadow, parts of the Tarim Basin receive no more than 10 millimeters (0.4 inches) of rain per year. It is no surprise that plant life is scarce. With little vegetation to hold sand in place, some 85 percent of the Taklimakan consists of shifting sand dunes. Only the dune fields of Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali cover a larger area. Taklimakan's dunes can soar up 200 to 300 meters (650 to 900 feet).<br />
With so much sand and so little vegetation or moisture, dust storms are a regular occurrence, particularly in the spring. On May 1, 2016, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this natural-color image of northeasterly winds pushing a wall of dust southwest across the Tarim Basin.<br />
The Tarim Basin is bordered by the Kunlun Shan mountains to the south and the Tian Shan mountains to the north. (The Tian Shan is covered with snow and partly obscured by clouds in this image.) The basin opens up on its eastern edge, but that is not generally a way out for dust. Prevailing low-altitude winds almost always blow from the east, keeping most dust below 5 kilometers (3 miles) - about the height of the mountain ranges - and trapped within the basin. In spring, strong surface winds can sometimes lift dust up to 10 kilometers (6 miles). These particles can then be transported by higher-altitude winds that send them across China and the Pacific. In this case, however, the dust appears to be relatively low in the atmosphere.<br />
Dust storms can lead to public health problems in populated areas downwind by transporting small particles, bacteria, and viruses that infiltrate human respiratory systems. Dust storms also affect Earth's climate by scattering and absorbing incoming solar radiation and changing the properties of clouds.<br />
References and Related Reading<br />
Ge, J. M. et al. (2014, October 28) Ch
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  • A dog reported itself to police when it had lost its owner. <br />
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Chico the German Shepherd put its paws up on the reception at Odessa Police Department in Texas on 11 February. <br />
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Staff later found out the cheeky canine returned safely to its owner. <br />
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Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers reported: “So.... this happy guy randomly strolled into the front desk of the Police Department last night. We’re thinking he wanted to apply for a K-9 position after eliminating a Lassie type situation. He was given lots of love and attention until he decided it was time for him to leave. He let himself out and after an exhausting search was not found. We were relieved to learn he safely returned to his owner. Chico is welcome back anytime.”<br />
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When: 11 Feb 2020<br />
Credit: Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers/Cover Images<br />
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  • A dog reported itself to police when it had lost its owner. <br />
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Chico the German Shepherd put its paws up on the reception at Odessa Police Department in Texas on 11 February. <br />
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Staff later found out the cheeky canine returned safely to its owner. <br />
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Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers reported: “So.... this happy guy randomly strolled into the front desk of the Police Department last night. We’re thinking he wanted to apply for a K-9 position after eliminating a Lassie type situation. He was given lots of love and attention until he decided it was time for him to leave. He let himself out and after an exhausting search was not found. We were relieved to learn he safely returned to his owner. Chico is welcome back anytime.”<br />
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When: 11 Feb 2020<br />
Credit: Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers/Cover Images<br />
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**Editorial use only**
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  • A dog reported itself to police when it had lost its owner. <br />
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Chico the German Shepherd put its paws up on the reception at Odessa Police Department in Texas on 11 February. <br />
<br />
Staff later found out the cheeky canine returned safely to its owner. <br />
<br />
Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers reported: “So.... this happy guy randomly strolled into the front desk of the Police Department last night. We’re thinking he wanted to apply for a K-9 position after eliminating a Lassie type situation. He was given lots of love and attention until he decided it was time for him to leave. He let himself out and after an exhausting search was not found. We were relieved to learn he safely returned to his owner. Chico is welcome back anytime.”<br />
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When: 11 Feb 2020<br />
Credit: Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers/Cover Images<br />
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**Editorial use only**
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  • A dog reported itself to police when it had lost its owner. <br />
<br />
Chico the German Shepherd put its paws up on the reception at Odessa Police Department in Texas on 11 February. <br />
<br />
Staff later found out the cheeky canine returned safely to its owner. <br />
<br />
Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers reported: “So.... this happy guy randomly strolled into the front desk of the Police Department last night. We’re thinking he wanted to apply for a K-9 position after eliminating a Lassie type situation. He was given lots of love and attention until he decided it was time for him to leave. He let himself out and after an exhausting search was not found. We were relieved to learn he safely returned to his owner. Chico is welcome back anytime.”<br />
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When: 11 Feb 2020<br />
Credit: Support Our Permian Basin Police Officers/Cover Images<br />
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**Editorial use only**
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  • USA, New York  - May 25, 2016.The southern basin of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum  where once rose the twin towers in the sky, there are two large artificial waterfalls, rippling nine meters in depth. (Credit Image: © Sepp Spiegl/Ropi via ZUMA Press)
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  • SOFALA, March 24, 2019  Local people queue to receive relief supplies in Tica town, along the National Road No. 6 (EN6) in the Pungue River Basin, Mozambique, March 23, 2019. After the country was hit by Tropical Cyclone Idai since last week, the rise of the water level of river Pungue has caused floods and massive destruction. (Credit Image: © Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • March 19, 2011 - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa - The late afternoon view across Victoria Basin on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in the historic heart of Cape Town’s harbor, South Africa’s most-visited tourist destination. In the background are iconic Table Mountain and Devil’s Peak. (Credit Image: © Arnold Drapkin/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • January 18 2017 - File - Among the other 208 people whose sentences Obama commuted San Francisco Giants legend (and cove namesake) WILLIE MCCOVEY. In 1995, McCovey was convicted of avoiding taxes on 0,000 worth of income that he made signing autographs and participating in memorabilia shows. Fellow Hall of Famer Duke Snider was also convicted in the case, and McCovey got two years probation and a ,000 fine. Pictured: Willie McCovey, former San Francisco Giants baseball great signs autographs after the groundbreaking at the new McCovey Point at China Basin Park Tuesday morning across from McCovey Cove and Pac Bell Park.  (Credit Image: © Jose Luis Villegas/Sacramento Bee via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • March 7, 2017 - Kampar, Riau, Indonesia - A young boy caries a basin on his head, while he walks through the heavily flooded streets of Buluh Cina village in Indonesia. Heavy rains continue to cause floods forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. (Credit Image: © Ahmad Widi/Sijori Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 9, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Image Released Today: Meteorologists struggled to find the right words to describe the situation as a line of three hurricanes, two of them major and all of them threatening land brewed in the Atlantic basin. Forecasters were most concerned about Irma, which was on track to make landfall in densely populated South Florida on September 10 as a large category 4 storm. Meanwhile, category 2 Hurricane Katia was headed for Mexico, where it was expected to make landfall on September 9. And just days after Irma devastated the Leeward Islands, the chain of small Caribbean islands braced for another blow, this time from category 4 Hurricane Jose. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured the data for a mosaic of Katia, Irma, and Jose as they appeared in the early hours of September 8, 2017. (Credit Image: © NASA/ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 6, 2017 - Amatrice (Rieti, Italy, Italy - The second edition of the Ciaramelle Festival in New Cornillo (Amatrice), the area of the High Sabina, which includes the amateur basin and the high valleys of Tronto and Velino, an area battered by the earthquake of last August, where debris are still visible. The ciaramella is a bicalamo musical instrument weaving with bag and constitutes a unicum in the horizon of the Italian zampogne. (Credit Image: © Patrizia Cortellessa/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • November 29, 2017 - Metz, France - Basin Nicolas (Credit Image: © Panoramic via ZUMA Press)
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  • August 7, 2017 - Kolkata, West Bengal, India - Kolkata Dock System’s 118-year old Swing Bridge,The bridge, built by London-based West Wood Baillie & Co, as early as 1890, connects the turning basin with main Kidderpore Dock No 1. The original design allowed for the railway track to be held on the middle of the bridge, but this alignment was subsequently changed to avoid sharper curve at either end of the track. The original bridge carried a clear roadway of 23.33 ft for both slow and fast moving traffic. But not anymore. On re-commissioning of the bridge after repair work, undertaken by Jessop & Co , no heavy vehicular traffic will be allowed. The repair cost is estimated at Rs. 1.5 crore shared equally between Kolkata Port Trust, South Eastern Railway and West Bengal Government. (Credit Image: © Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, laugh with Nobel prize winner professor Wangari Maathai, left, during the launch of the Congo Basin Forest Fund at Lancaster House in central London.
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean typically start to develop off the west coast of Africa, then move westward across the basin and intensify as they approach North America or the islands of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. In the last days of August 2015, that storm development process went into overdrive.<br />
On August 30, an easterly wave from the African interior moved out over the Atlantic, where sea surface temperatures hovered around 30° Celsius (86° Fahrenheit). The unusually warm waters provided fuel for a storm that progressed from tropical depression to tropical storm to hurricane in roughly one day.<br />
According to several reports, Fred appears to be the easternmost hurricane to form in the tropical Atlantic during the satellite era. (Extra-tropical Hurricane Vince formed briefly off Portugal in 2005.) It is also believed to be the first hurricane to hit Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) islands since 1892. The storm did not cause any casualties, nor did it make direct landfall on any of the islands, but it did cause flash flooding and extensive wind damage. As much rain was predicted to fall in one day as the islands typically receive in half a year, though totals are not yet available.<br />
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of Fred off the west coast Africa at 11:15 a.m. Cabo Verde time (12:15 Universal Time) on August 31, 2015. The storm was at peak intensity when the image was acquired, with sustained wind speeds of 75 knots (85 miles or 140 kilometers per hour) and a central pressure of 986 millibars. It was a category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.<br />
The MODIS instrument on Terra got a look at Fred's remnants on September 1. Now a tropical storm, it is expected to linger for much of the week and slowly devolve into a tropical depression as it moves north and west.<br />
References<br />
BBC (2015, September 1)<br />
Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde. Accessed September 1, 2015.<br />
Bloomberg News (2015, Sep
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  • Dust and sand storms in the Middle East and other arid regions tend to come in two forms. Haboobs are dramatic events associated with storm fronts and often appear as walls of sand and dust marching across the landscape. But like thunderstorms, haboobs tend to abrupt and short-lived. Then there are the long-lived, wide-reaching dust storms that can last for days. In Iraq, such storms are often associated with the shamal, a pattern of persistent northwesterly winds.<br />
In early September 2015, a storm with characteristics of both the shamal and the haboob moved across Iraq, Iran, and the Persian Gulf region. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured these natural-color images of the dust storm on September 1 and September 3, 2015.<br />
The dust event first appeared in NASA satellite imagery along the Iraq–Syria border on August 31. By the next day, the storm took on the cyclonic shape visible in the top image above. By September 2, the dust cloud reached the Persian Gulf. It had spread out across the entire basin by the time of the September 3 image above.<br />
The storm appears to have been triggered by a surface low-pressure system that moved from northwest to southeast during the week. The cyclonic circulation around the center of low pressure is most obvious in the September 1 image. Weather data from ground stations in Baghdad, Khormor, and Al Asad confirm the wind circulation pattern. But the overall movement of the system from the northwest toward the Persian Gulf also suggests late-summer shamal winds.<br />
Much of northern Iraq has been in a state of exceptional drought. Anecdotal evidence and media reports in recent years suggest that dust storms have become more common in Iraq and Iran, a result of that drought and of the human and natural destruction of wetlands in the Tigris-Euphrates watersheds.<br />
News reports and social media chatter in September 2015 described wind gusts up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour in Iran
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 20, 2016 - Datong, Datong, China - Datong, CHINA-September 20 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) ..The Hanging Temple, is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, north China¬°¬Øs Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight. Coupled with the repair of the dynasties, the color tattoo in the temple is relatively well preserved. On December 2010, it was listed in the Time magazine as the world's top ten most odd dangerous buildings. (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • As world leaders converged on Paris for a United Nations conference on climate change, residents of Beijing and other cities in eastern China faced the most severe air pollution the nation has seen in 2015. Chinese authorities issued an "orange" air pollution alert, the second highest level on a four-tiered warning scale. They advised millions of people to stay indoors, halted construction at some sites, and ordered factories to close, according to news reports.<br />
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this natural-color image of northeastern China on November 30, 2015. The image shows extensive haze, low clouds, and fog over the region. The brightest areas are clouds or fog, which have tinges of gray or yellow because of the air pollution. Other cloud-free areas have a pall of gray haze that mostly blots out the cities below. In areas where the ground is visible, some of the landscape is covered with snow. The haze extended southwest from Beijing for hundreds of kilometers and was particularly dense in low-lying areas in the Guanzhong Plain.<br />
On the day VIIRS acquired the image, PM2.5 measurements peaked at 666 micrograms per cubic meter of air, according to ground-based sensors at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Fine, airborne particulate matter (PM) that is smaller than 2.5 microns (about one thirtieth the width of a human hair) is considered dangerous because it is small enough to enter human lungs. Most PM2.5 aerosol particles result from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass (wood fires and agricultural burning). The World Health Organization considers PM2.5 levels to be safe when they are below 25.<br />
Outbreaks of haze like this generally occur during the winter because of temperature inversions. Air normally cools with altitude, but during an inversion warm air settles above a layer of cool air near the surface. The warm air acts like a lid and traps pollutants near the surface, especially in basins and valleys.<br />
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  • An astronaut aboard the International Space Station focused near the Sun's reflection point to shoot this photograph of grid-patterned fish farms on the coast of China's northeast province of Liaoning. The aquaculture basins have been built out from the wooded coast to a distance of nearly 6 kilometers (4 miles). Fish farms have been constructed at many points along the provincial coastline, but this group of basins facing the Yellow Sea is the largest. (Liaoning Province is the sixth in China in terms of aquaculture production.)<br />
The basins are built on shallow seabeds, mudflats, and bays.<br />
Islands, such as the one at image center, often help anchor the construction of basins. Outer barriers protect the basins from winter storms. Water flow lines and a ship wake are visible near the river estuary.<br />
Most aquaculture products are marketed live in China, with less than 5 percent processed for local or overseas markets.<br />
Shellfish, a traditional marine food source, still dominates the marine species production (77 percent), with sea fish a distant second (5 percent).<br />
About 4.3 million people are involved in freshwater and marine fish production in China (as of 2007).<br />
Click here to view another high-contrast astronaut photograph of fish farms near the Nile Delta.<br />
Astronaut photograph ISS044-E-89407 was acquired on September 6, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 1150 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 44 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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  • A woman stands in silent protest holding banners with the Freedom Charter printed on them, the banners are lying in metal basins and soaking up a red liquid symbolising blood outside the Slave Lodge shortly before the commencement of the annual Women's Humanity Walk that takes place yearly on Women's Day. This year's walk was an intergenerational celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March where 20000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to protest for freedom and justice. Women from all walks of life and all religious and cultural backgrounds marched together in solidarity and in remembrance from the Slave Lodge to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on the 9th August 2016.<br />
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Photo by:   Mark Wessels / Real Time Images.
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