Cattle stand stranded on small islands surrounded by flood waters in the Indian state of Bihar in September last year, after a breach in the embankments of the Kosi river, north of a dam in Nepal
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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
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A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, on June 10, at 9:04pm
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The broken spillway of a vanadium mine is seen in Shanyang county, Shaanxi province, China, on July 22
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This September 10 image, taken by the crew of the International Space Station flying 220 statute miles above Earth, shows Hurricane Ike
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In this September 12 photo, a home burns on the beach on Galveston Island, Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches
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People seek refuge from flood waters in east Nepal in August 2008. More than two million people were affected by flooding after a dam burst
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In this October 13 photo, traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind-driven brush fire in Los Angeles
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The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3
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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
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An aerial photograph captures the plume of ashes spewed by the Chaiten volcano in Chile, on May 31
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