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  • A flood line on a tree by the Yanayacu River shows the normal flood line of Amazon Basin rivers during the rainy season in Peru.
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  • A mountaineer looks out with surprise at a sudden meltwater stream that has suddenly started flowing under his tent on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Lines on tree trunks mark the annual rainy-season floodwater level in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091112-251-2.jpg
  • The Amazon Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center, a tourist camp, is built on poles to keep it above annual flooding of Peru's Amazon River.
    PEe 091110-486-2.jpg
  • The Amazon Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center, a tourist camp, is built on poles to keep it above annual flooding of Peru's Amazon River.
    PEe 091110-487-2.jpg
  • A flash flood pours across a road in Valley of the Gods, formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument.
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  • A flash flood pours across a road in Valley of the Gods, formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument.
    UTe 180714-403.jpg
  • A flash flood pours across a road in Valley of the Gods, formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument.
    UTe 180714-392.jpg
  • Tibet, China. Reservoir near Gyangze threatens to flood an ancient hilltop fortress.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child surveys sudden meltwater lake threatening to flood base camp tent during Sail Peak climbing expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child surveys sudden meltwater lake threatening to flood base camp tent during Sail Peak climbing expedition.
    BI 3919.jpg
  • A flash flood pours across a road in Valley of the Gods, formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument.
    UTe 180714-409.jpg
  • A flash flood pours across a road in Valley of the Gods, formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument.
    UTe 180714-389.jpg
  • An abandoned Russian log house falls apart and settles into floodwaters near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • A thatch-roofed tourist boat approaches The Amazon Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center, a tourist camp on Peru's Yanayacu River.
    PEe 091111-275-2.jpg
  • A day-laborer rests between carrying baskets of mud from a canal that he is digging to mitigate monsoon flooding with a crew of other villagers of Manikganj, Bangladesh. 1977
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  • Day laborers in Manikganj, Bangladesh, smoke a hookah during a break from carrying mud out of a drainage canal they are digging to protect their village from monsoon flooding.
    BDL 10-23.jpg
  • Sherpa guides herd a train of yaks across Nepal's Dudh Kosi River on a precarious cantilevered bridge.  This entire scene was wiped out a few years later by a massive outburst flood from a glacial lake near the base of Mount Everest.  (photo taken in 1980)
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  • Sherpa guides herd a train of yaks across Nepal's Dudh Kosi River on a precarious cantilevered bridge.  This entire scene was wiped out a few years later by a massive outburst flood from a glacial lake near the base of Mount Everest.  (photo taken in 1980)
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  • Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage.  Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power.  For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1111.jpg
  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1101.jpg
  • Stairs lead up a mud cliff from the Amazon River to huts that will be close to waterline during flood season.
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  • Villagers dig a canal by hand.  This is an internationally sponsored monsoon flood control project and workers are paid in grain by the amount of earth they move.  For a day’s work, these people will barely receive enough for their families to eat, but for many this is more than to be found anywhere else.  Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
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  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0151.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
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  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0151.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0006.jpg
  • MONGOLIA.   Four-wheel drive van crosses dangerous bridge over river near Rinchenlhumbe in Darhad Valley.  This bridge washes out regularly in floods. Horidal Saridag Mountains bkg.
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  • MONGOLIA.   Four-wheel drive van crosses bridge over Bagrakh River near Uulan Uul in southern Darhad Valley.  Horidal Saridag Mountains bkg.   This bridge washes out occasionally in floods.
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  • A four-wheel drive van crosses a bridge over the Bagrakh River near Uulan Uul in Mongolia's southern Darhad Valley.  The Horidal Saridag Mountains are behind.   This bridge washes out occasionally in floods.
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  • MONGOLIA.   Four-wheel drive van crosses bridge over Bagrakh River near Uulan Uul in southern Darhad Valley.  Horidal Saridag Mountains bkg.   This bridge washes out occasionally in floods.
    MGe 060702-066.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0219.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0210.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0152.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0151.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0015.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
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  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0008.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0006.jpg