Topic: drought

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Pictures of the Week: July 20 – July 27

Friday, July 27, 2012 | 0

From drought-cracked earth in Yemen and massive floods in China to violent protests in California and Olympic preparation in London, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

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Pictures of the Week: July 13 – July 20

Friday, July 20, 2012 | 1

From America’s worst drought in 50 years and fierce fighting in Syria to the shootings in Colorado and the start of Ramadan, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

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Pictures of the Week: April 13 – April 20

Friday, April 20, 2012 | 1

From centennial celebrations of the birth of Kim Il-Sung in North Korea and attacks in Afghanistan to the moving of the space shuttle Discovery and Nepalese New Year, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

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The Best Pictures of the Week, August 12 – August 19

Friday, August 19, 2011 | 0

This week: Rebel fighters in Libya, temporary confessionals in Madrid, the children of Somalia’s famine, Independence Day celebrations in Pakistan, The Palio of Siena bareback horse race, the Dalai Lama visits southern France, the wall of peace in the aftermath of England’s riots, Mubarak on trail, drought in Texas, rainbows, waterfalls and astronaut photographer Ron Garan’s tweeted photo shows “What a ‘Shooting Star’ looks like from space.”

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Somalia: One Mother’s Unspeakable Loss

Thursday, August 18, 2011 | 0

The US government estimates that some 30,000 children have died in southern Somalia in the last 90 days from the famine and drought crisis. Returning, nearly two decades after covering Somalia’s last famine in the early ’90s, photographer John Moore writes on the current tragedy affecting a stricken country.

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Picturing the American Drought: George Steinmetz

Thursday, August 11, 2011 | 0

As renowned aerial photographer George Steinmetz documented the effects of the recent record-setting drought in the American South, he discovered that even in driest parts of the country, the cliched idea of the bowl of cracked earth and dust was neither common nor representative of the crisis.

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Haven and Hell: The World’s Largest Refugee Camp

Thursday, July 21, 2011 | 2

The world’s biggest complex of refugee camps is already so full, there are about 70,000 people living outside it. Mostly women and children, they shelter from the elements in domelike huts made from sticks, plastic sheeting and discarded cartons from aid packets. Photographer Jehad Nga photographs the existence of life inside and outside the Dadaab refugee complex.

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