'Una Ventana al Planeta'

 

Un trabajador toma un pequeño descanso en lo alto de una montaña formada por miles de botellas de plástico en la planta recicladora de Dhaka en Bangladesh.

Photo by RAFIQUR RAHMAN

A young girl plays inside a damaged classroom in Yongan county in Mianyang City, Sichuan province of China. Yongan has become a ghost town. Its residents are either dead, evacuated, or camping out in the local school yard. Just a few kilometres south of Beichuan, where state media have reported thousands of deaths from Monday’s massive earthquake in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, Yongan has been almost totally destroyed.

Photo by CLARO CORTES IV

El piloto suizo Yves Rossy realizó un primer vuelo con sus nuevas alas de carbono fijadas a su espalda sobre los Alpes suizos. El piloto alcanzó una velocidad de vuelo de 200 kilómetros por hora.

Photo by AP

Residents search the rubble of a destroyed building after an earthquake in Dujiangyan City, 50km (31 miles) from Chengdu in Sichuan province May 13, 2008. Nearly 10,000 people were killed in the earthquake that hammered southwest China, officials said on Tuesday, as rescuers struggled to reach the worst-hit areas where many more may have died.

Photo by CLARO CORTES

Un grupo de científicos japoneses reproducen ranas modificadas genéticamente para poder ver sus órganos a través de la piel, y analizar el desarrollo de males como cáncer y otras enfermedades

Photo by AP

Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them.

Photo by STRINGER CHILE

Children hold a tree as a sign of protecting it in Mumbai May 11, 2008. Environmental activists tied ribbons and embraced trees in a campaign to protest against the government’s plan to cut trees as part of its city beautification plan.

Photo by ARKO DATTA

A farmer stands with his horse on the side of a road covered with ashes in Los Cipreses, in Argentina’s Patagonia May 8, 2008. Experts believe Chile’s Chaiten volcano could continue belching out vast clouds of ash for months but distraught people evacuated from nearby towns say they yearn to return as soon as possible. Ash that has reached as far as Argentina continued to spew for a seventh day on Thursday, disrupting flights to the southern Patagonia region with no sign of let-up.

Photo by JORGE CORTIZO

The new male chimpanzee called Sule is seen with its mother Sacha at Taronga Zoo in Sydney May 8, 2008. Sule is the second chimpanzee that born this year at Taronga zoo after the birth of a female infant ‘Sembe’ five weeks ago. 

Photo by DANIEL MUNOZ

A Watertown, N.Y., firefighter attempts to rescue a dog that was trapped on a rock ledge in the Black River.

Photo by NIKO J. KALLIANIOTIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Smoke and ash rise for thousands of meters through a thick layer of clouds from the crater of the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, May 7, 2008. Ash that has reached as far as Argentina continued to spew for a sixth day on Wednesday, disrupting flights to the southern Patagonia region with no sign of a let-up.

Photo by STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

People put containers in line to collect water after Cyclone Nargis hit the town of Yangon May 7, 2008. Survivors with harrowing tales of villages smashed by Cyclone Nargis are paddling wooden boats to the Myanmar town of Bogalay to find whole streets destroyed and food and water scarce. Almost no aid has reached one of the hardest-hit towns in the Irrawaddy delta of around 50,000 inhabitants, where the storm tore rice mills apart and washed away fishing boats.

Photo by STR NEW

 

Rural farmer Hector Diocares walks through ash-covered grazing land in Argentina’s Patagonian city of Esquel, May 8, 2008. Experts believe Chile’s Chaiten volcano could continue belching out vast clouds of ash for months but distraught people evacuated from nearby towns say they yearn to return as soon as possible. Ash that has reached as far as Argentina continued to spew for a sixth day on Wednesday, disrupting flights to the southern Patagonia region with no sign of let-up.

Photo by STRINGER ARGENTINA

Cyclone Nargis strikes Myanmar in this computer enhanced satellite image from NASA’s Terra satellite taken May 3 and released May 7, 2008. The image is enhanced with visible and infrared scanner (VIRS) readings of precipitation over the area. Myanmar’s military government raised its death toll from Cyclone Nargis on Tuesday to nearly 22,500 with a further 41,000 missing, nearly all of them from a massive storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta.

Photo by REUTERS/HO NEW

A protester calling for the creation of protected marine reserves wears diving gear during a demonstration in London.

Photo by PETER MACDIARMID

 

  

  Sea lions rest inside an open cage on the Columbia River at the Bonneville Dam in North Bonneville, Washington April 25, 2008. Investigators searched for clues on May 5, 2008 in the shooting deaths of six protected sea lions at the dam between Washington state and Oregon, while officials halted a controversial trapping program aimed at stopping the mammals from eating endangered salmon.

Photo by RICHARD CLEMENT

Rosalia Gubernati, a customer at a Mexico City coffee shop, exhales her cigarette smoke as she sits outside April 3, 2008. A law banning smoking in enclosed spaces in Mexico City came into effect today, forcing all smokers to take their habit outside or face a fine. 

Photo by ANDREW WINNING

A protester holds up a digitally altered movie poster with faces of Mexico’s interior minister Juan Camilo Mourino (C) and President Calderon (2nd L), among other politicians, during a protest near to the Dos Bocas oil terminal in the southeastern state of Tabasco March 18, 2008. The demonstration was timed to coincide with President Felipe Calderon attending an event at the oil terminal to mark the anniversary of the expropriation of Mexico’s oil industry. Passions have been stirred up by the idea of private partnerships with the state oil monopoly Pemex to try to shore up the flagging industry. The poster reads “Here come the pirates, and they’re going for the treasure”.

Photo by STRINGER