Cranberries are harvested as pictured above — the beds are flooded and the floating berries are “wet-picked.” (About 5-10% of cranberries harvested in the United States are “dry-picked.”)
(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
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On April 26, 1986, operators in this control room of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant committed a fatal series of errors during a safety test, triggering a reactor meltdown that resulted in the world’s largest nuclear accident to date. Today, the control room sits abandoned and deadly radioactive. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, 2005 (Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE) (via Gerd Ludwig’s “Long Shadow of Chernobyl” project - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
A young woman stumbles as she tries to carry a large basket of coal as they illegally scavenge at an open-cast mine in the village of Bokapahari, India, where a community of coal scavengers live and work. The contrast between India old and new is nowhere more vivid than among the villages of coal scavengers in eastern India, sitting on an apocalyptic landscape of smoke and fire from decades-old underground coal fires. While India grows ever more middle-class and awash in creature comforts, these villagers risk their lives scavenging coal illegally for a few dollars a day, and come back to homes that at any moment could be swallowed by a fresh fire-induced crack in the earth. (Kevin Frayer/AP) (via Coal - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Monster truck of extreme proportions!
A truck holds 447 tons of coal at Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle coal mine, north of Douglas, Wyo. Guiness World Records recently awarded the body’s manufacturer a certificate for its custom-built unit designed for a Wyoming mine. (Westech/Casper Star-Tribune/AP) (via Coal - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Jay Lukes (@1000Steps) asked for something from the “1993 Laguna Beach Fire in Laguna Beach CA”. That terrible fire destroyed more than 350 homes in a single day (more here). In this image: a single home sits virtually untouched in Laguna Beach, California, on October 28, 1993, after wildfires reduced neighboring homes, and hundreds of others, to rubble.
People wander near the beached TK Bremen on December 17, 2011. (Fred Tanneau/AFP/Getty Images) (via Salvaging the TK Bremen - In Focus - The Atlantic)
In this June 18, 2011 photo, a farmer’s pig rests in a puddle on main street near the train station in central Namie, Japan less then six miles from the crippled nuclear reactor. Farmers across the area had to hastily leave their homes and were unable to evacuate livestock, or return to the irradiated zone to care for them. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) (via Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
The remains of a destroyed tree are seen five days after a massive tornado passed through the town killing at least 132 people on May 27, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. The town continues the process of recovering from the storm which damaged or destroyed an estimated 8,000 structures. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (via Photos: Best Photos of the Year 2011 | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post)
Chinese children swim along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong province on July 17, 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China’s east coastline and although not poisonous, it can hinder the fishing industry and tourism in affected areas. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) (via Photos: Pollution in China | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post)
The Texas Forest Service undertook controlled burns on Sunday, April 17, 2011 to get rid of fuel on the mountains around McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, which were experiencing widespread forest fires. Here, Black Mountain is burning. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome is at right. (Frank Cianciolo/McDonald Observatory) (via 2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic)
