Workers load the carcasses of horses into a truck at an equestrian club in Mexico City on August 26. Heavy rain caused floods, drowning at least 50 trapped horses and killing a night watchman |
A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, on June 10, at 9:04pm |
The broken spillway of a vanadium mine is seen in Shanyang county, Shaanxi province, China, on July 22 |
This September 10 image, taken by the crew of the International Space Station flying 220 statute miles above Earth, shows Hurricane Ike |
In this September 12 photo, a home burns on the beach on Galveston Island, Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches |
People seek refuge from flood waters in east |
In this October 13 photo, traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes |
The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3 |
A soldier on the banks of the Rio Blanco looks at a cloud of ash from the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile on June 25 |
An aerial photograph captures the plume of ashes spewed by the Chaiten volcano in Chile, on May 31 |