life:

U.S. Army nurse Wyatt Graeber holds three-month-old burn victim Zhargonia at an American combat hospital in Baghram Air Field, Afghanistan. The child was brought into the hospital when she was two days old, her face completely burned when a flaming curtain fell on her head during a kitchen fire. The hospital staff cared for her for months afterward.

see more — Today’s Wars: Iraq & Afghanistan

life:

It’s that time of week again— here, photos that will inspire and captivate you: The Week’s Best Photos

Pictured Above: A doctor examines Mihag Gedi Farah, a 7-month-old child with a weight of 7.5 pounds, in a field hospital in Dadaab, Kenya, now home to hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees fleeing famine at home.

Photo © Schalk van Zuydam/AP Photo

doctorswithoutborders:

An MSF ambulance arrives at the reception center at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to pick up patients urgently in need of medical attention. Many Somali refugees, especially children, arrive at the camp dangerously malnourished; some do not survive the journey. View more photos in our slideshow. Photo: 2011 © Brendan Bannon

doctorswithoutborders:

This little boy’s arm was broken by a bullet when he was caught in an exchange of gunfire in Somalia. Before his family fled to Dadaab, Kenya, he was treated by doctors in MSF’s hospital in Marere, Lower Juba region—the only hospital in the area.View more photos in our slideshow. Photo: 2011 © Brendan Bannon

doctorswithoutborders:

Refugees wait at the reception center in Dagahaley, one of three sites in the Dadaab refugee camp complex in northern Kenya. Currently, it takes two months for new arrivals at the camp to be registered, which means delays in receiving direly needed food rations. View more photos in our slideshow. Photo: 2011 © Brendan Bannon

hyperallergic:

Newsweek publishes 12 final images by war photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed by Qaddafi forces in Libya three months ago.

(via juliasegal, kofferfraulein)

seaofgreen:

Iran’s Lake Urmia (Oroumieh), the largest lake in the Middle East and the third largest salt water lake on earth, is turning to salt. Urmia is “home to some 212 species of birds, 41 reptiles, 7 amphibians, and 27 species of mammals, including the Iranian yellow deer.” According to a new report by AP, the lake “has shrunken by 60 percent and could disappear entirely in just a few years, experts say — drained by drought, misguided irrigation policies, development and the damming of rivers that feed it.”

Photo: An abandoned ship is stuck in the solidified salts of the Oroumieh Lake, some 370 miles NW of Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2011. (Vahid Salemi)

washingtonpoststyle:

Today, in one image.

Downtown Oslo, shattered.

Photo by Holm Morten (AP)

life:

On July 22, 2011, apparent bomb blasts ripped through a government district in central Oslo, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 15 more. In what officials are now calling a related attack, a man dressed in a police uniform opened fire at Labor Party youth camp at Utoya, an island just outside of the city. Police arrested one person in the shooting, which appears to have inflicted more casualties.

see more — Oslo Explosions: A Bloody Aftermath