Gallery: Our Beautiful, Fragile World
Ars Technica » Scientific Method 2014-01-07
A river cuts through rock, laying bare millions of years of Earth history for all to see. The Colorado River is now so thoroughly dammed with so much water extracted that scenes like this are now rare.
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Peter Essick, a photographer for National Geographic, has a new book out called Our Beautiful, Fragile World. It focuses on places in this world where humanity's footprint is transforming the landscape, sometimes with horrific effect, sometimes with an inadvertent beauty.
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