Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse on 7 November 1940. This road suspension bridge spanned 1810 metres across the Tacoma Narrows strait in Puget Sound, Washington, USA. It opened on 1 July 1940, but collapsed just four month later due to oscillations caused by aeroelastic flutter in 67 kilometres-per-hour gale-force winds. The oscillations produced waves several metres in height, increasing and undulating along the bridge until the eventual collapse. There were no casualties except a dog trapped in a car stranded on the bridge. A rescue was attempted by US engineer Frederick Bert Farquharson but the frightened animal would not leave the car.

Ruins Building

Animation of a look around a desolate landscape on Earth in the future. Dead trees are silhouetted against a dusty sky, and ruined buildings stand amongst them. This may represent the end point of runaway global warming, in which so much carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere that the greenhouse effect raises temperatures to levels at which it is impossible to sustain the current human population.

Roof Damage, Hurricane Ike, Galveston, Texas, Sept 2008

The search operation for bodies, ongoing since March 28, continues with the use of heavy machinery after the State Audit Office of the Kingdom of Thailand building under construction collapsed due to an earthquake, My condolences to all those who lost their lives

Tornado on farmland. Filmed in Siebert, Colorado, USA, in July 2007.

The search operation for bodies, ongoing since March 28, continues with the use of heavy machinery after the State Audit Office of the Kingdom of Thailand building under construction collapsed due to an earthquake, My condolences to all those who lost their lives

Shot of house being pulled down and demolished to make way for newer housing. Tower blocks loom in the background. Smoke from the demolition fills the shot, Liverpool, UK; 1966 (LGF5747S - AEVZ001J)

Flooded Trailer Park, Hurricane Ike, Galveston, Texas, Sept 2008

Animation of rising sea levels flooding Sydney, including the area around its Opera House on Bennelong Point. Sydney is built around Sydney Harbour, and like other port cities is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels. Climate change is causing more and more ice to melt from the icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica, causing sea levels to rise.

Damaged building in earthquake.

Animation of rising sea levels flooding Sydney, including the area around its Opera House on Bennelong Point. Sydney is built around Sydney Harbour, and like other port cities is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels. Climate change is causing more and more ice to melt from the icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica, causing sea levels to rise.

Fishing hut at Point Barrow, or Nuvuk. This Arctic Ocean headland in Alaska is the northernmost land in the USA. The region is threatened by a fast-eroding shoreline due to melting permafrost caused by climate change, as well as loss of the sea ice that protected the beaches.

General views of derelict tenement style social housing being demolished. An excavator is being used to tear down the building structure and remove rubble from the crumbling structures in Gorbals - Glasgow, Scotland, UK; 1959. (LGF6492D - AEXZ238P)