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Taken by an unknown photographer in 1912, this image shows Lincoln Beechey in an airplane and Barney Oldfield in an automobile racing around a track.

Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, this image, taken in 1943, shows a rocket that would have been launched from a bazooka. 

Produced by the American Colony Photo Department during the early 20th century, this image shows a family sitting in a field located in Palestine.

Oil palm plantations for the production of palm oil (used in food, soaps, detergents, cosmetics and biofuel) are one of the leading causes of deforestation in tropical rain forests around the world. In fact, Indonesia made the 2008 Guinness Book of World Records for having the fastest deforestation rate of any major forested country. Pengli works an oil palm plantation near the village of Tempayung in Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. His daily wages average about US$3/day which puts him just above the subsistence poverty line, but with little opportunity to make more and improve his status. It's a downward spiraling cycle where as the forests are destroyed, communities that used to be able to rely on growing their own food and finding clean water locally must now work for wages, often for the companies destroying the forests, just to purchase basic necessities. To read the Rare Blog about the larger project from which this story is drawn, visit: http://www.rareconservation.org/blog/

Photograph by Jim French, taken in 1979, shows a young boy holding a cane toad, an invasive species that has plagued northern Australia since 1935. http://www.flickr.com/photos/selago/21484241/