Burned forest from the Station Fire forms a backdrop for the storage shed of a water depot in the Angeles National Forest. The demand to protect structures built in forests (the "urban interface") rather than environmental concerns determines a great deal of wildfire management policy.

Bones in shrouds fill the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq, now the home of an Iraqi human rights organization which is overseeing the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, looking for relatives.

A demonstrator at Occupy Oakland pauses to rest on a crosswalk next to Frank Ogawa Plaza.

A German sniper's view into the Kosovo town of Prizren from the castle on the hill, two kilometers away.

Men point to their missing relatives in street display of faces of Iraqis arrested and disappeared by Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980's and 1990's.

German soldiers preparing to board a flight to Kosovo.

People rushed to rescue the injured at the bombing of the Neve Salom synagog in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. Windows were shattered up to 800m away, and the streets are filled with broken glass. There were about six bodies on the street outside, and about five bloodied people were being rushed away from the synagog and the shops nearby. The interior of the synagog was not damaged, but the entrance was devastated.

A woman cries in frustration as she searches for her missing relatives among the bones in shrouds that fill the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq. The center is now the home of an Iraqi human rights organization which is overseeing the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, looking for relatives.

Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains in a frantic search for relatives at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq. They check the bones and clothes for identification papers, jewelery, even cigaret packs, looking for something familiar. The destruction of evidence (of crimes against humanity and of identity) was so great that Human Rights Watch began a campaign to embarass the U.S. military into closing the site.

Bones in shrouds fill the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq, now the home of an Iraqi human rights organization which oversees the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over Iraq to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, hoping to discover a long-lost relative.

Nicolas Lux waits nervously for his siblings to arrive before knocking on a door to ask for candy. While he knows some of his close neighbors, those living more than a block away are strangers.

Wedding of Mischa and Cristina Berlinski-Lampieri.

The husband of an ethnic Albanian woman Krushe e Madhe is one of over 100 men who still missing and presumed dead.

An Iraqi man searching in a mass grave site for remains stops to cry in frustration. Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains in a frantic search for relatives at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq. They check the bones and clothes for identification papers, jewelery, even cigaret packs, looking for something familiar. The destruction of evidence (of crimes against humanity and of identity) was so great that Human Rights Watch began a campaign to embarass the U.S. military into closing the site.

Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains using a large digger in a frantic search to find long-missing relatives near Hillah, Iraq. The chaotic digging caused such destruction of evidence -- of both crimes against humanity and of identity -- that Human Rights Watch began a campaign to embarass the U.S. military into closing the site.

Satellite dish outside a house in the village of Catal Köy, near Diyarbakir. The men were forced to be village guards (kidnapping of a villager, who was then released), then quit.

Burned houses in Krushe e Mahde, site of a Serb massacre of Kosovar Albanians, in Kosovo.

Eqrem Hoti walks along the railroad tracks that run through the village of Krushe e Mahde in Kosovo, where more than fifty men were massacred by Serb paramilitaries in 1999.

An ethnic Albanian rebel soldier leads a journalist out of a Serb shoeshop he has been looting immediately after the end of fighting, in Prizren, Kosovo.

A Vista Grande Hotshot firefighter pauses to assess his surroundings during a night burning operation at the Station Fire near Los Angeles.

Doctors and volunteers examine bodies of tsunami victims at the Yan Yao temple, Thailand, taking DNA samples and sorting the bodies into Asian and Europeans for later examination.

A man is overcome with emotion while collecting his brother's remains from the mass grave at Hillah, Iraq. The site may contain up to 20,000 bodies.

The Occupy Oakland demonstration marched through downtown Oakland to protest police brutality.

Families of the missing protest against the lack of information about their relatives outside the parliament building. There is not much information to be had, and communications between the many groups involved in the search for the missing is poor.

A skeleton in the morgue in Orahovac/Rahovec, Kosovo, being examined for a war crimes case, shows signs of torture and murder: a bullet through the head, a shattered leg, broken ribs, and shrapnel from a hand-grenade.

Corpses lie on the ground in a dry ice mist, keeping cool, while volunteers take a rib for DNA samples, at the Yan Yao temple in Thailand where forensic scientists are working on the identification and storage of the dead. Most of the bodies are Thai, but occasionally a foreigner is found.

A forensic anthropologist puts together a spinal column in the Orahovac/Rahovec morgue in Kosovo. Body bags often contain more than one body, so the investigators must piece them together to see how many they have found.

Protesters marched from downtown Oakland to the port at 3pm. The marchers blocked cargo trucks in Oakland, California, effectively shutting down parts of the port in the evening.

Metalworker's shop.

The boxing club practices outside the destroyed sports complex in Pristina, Kosovo.

At night, in many towns all over Turkey, the men sit and gamble and smoke in tea houses like this one in the eastern city of Diyarbakir.