Nature bites back
Man is supposedly in command of his environment. Increasingly he demonstrates that his only real power is the power to undermine Nature. Sometimes - increasingly often it seems - Nature bites back.
2005 10 Earthquake India, Kashmir, Pakistan
2005 10 - An earthquake (magnitude 7,6) struck an area in northern Kashmir affecting southern Kashmir and parts of India and Pakistan.
2005 10 Hurricane Vince Atlantic
Hurricane Vince began to form in the Eastern Atlantic near the Madeira Islands on 10 October (GMT).threatening Portugal.
2005 09 Hurricane Rita - USA
Hurricane Rita hit the USA coast of the Gulf of Mexico causing widespread damage and great economic harm to a part of the country that is both on of its most strategically important for oil yet, paradoxically, has one of its largest concentration of the poor. Rita was the most powerful hurricane to hit the USA for years. Its impact was so enormous that the US Government, State and City authorities were unable to immediately react to the scale of the disaster.