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A pet dog walks in toxic mud on Oct. 5, 2010 in the village of Devecser, Hungary. A mixture of water and mining waste containing heavy metals flooded seven villages around the town of Ajka, killing four people and injuring 120. Six people remain missing in Hungary's worst-ever chemical accident.
This one got to me.
Click to see more photographic coverage of the chemical spill.
Tamas Kovacs
Sunflowers stand in poisonous red mud in a field in Somlovasarhely, Hungary, October 6, 2010, after a dike of a reservoir containing red mud from an alumina factory in nearby Ajka broke two days ago, and over one million cubic meters of the poisonous chemical sludge inundated three villages, killing four persons and injuring over hundred. Three people are unaccounted for and hundreds of families have been evacuated.
I guess I've seen enough Disney and Pixar animated movies that it almost seems plausible that these sunflowers would be weeping at the scope of this environmental disaster. Kudos to Tamas Kovacs for shooting something totally different.
The latest of the spill is here and the ongoing slideshow is here.
Sandor H. Szabo / EPA
Aerial view of a sinuous track of a belvíz withdrawing inland waters near Harsany, about 97 miles northeast of Budapest, Hungary on June 10. After days of flooding due to torrential rains rivers and streams are slowly withdrawing in the region where 3,730 people have been forced to escape their homes due to floods and inland waters.
Sometimes even natural 'disasters' leave beauty in their wake. See another picture from the receding floods the most recent edition of The Week in Pictures.
Attila Robert Horvath / EPA
Following a torrential shower and hail that swept across Western Hungary, clouds form into a vast ring over the region of Gyoer, 124 km west of Budapest, Hungary, May 25, 2010.
Isn't mother nature amazing?
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