Adams Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Adams Lake, the long, deep blue lake, is typical of the thousands of glacier-formed lakes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Substantial variation in relief exists throughout the region— Logging has left clear-cut areas.
Oil Well Fire Residue, Kuwait
Southern Kuwait, nine months after the oil well fires of Desert Storm were ignited, it shows the extent and pattern of environmental degradation caused by the smoke residue from the oil well fires.
A mass of gray smog—mainly industrial pollution and smoke from domestic burning—obscures Beijing and surrounding cities. Beijing suffers some of the worst air pollution in the world from these chronic sources.
Kuwait, Oil Well Fires and Smoke
The effects of Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein’s setting fire to the oil wells in Kuwait.
