Terre : population zéro

In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer, flooding cities, collapsing dams and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.

When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses, malls rot, shipping lanes turn explosive and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators and time.

In the absence of humanity, the world's cities like New York, Orlando and Rio de Janeiro are reclaimed by nature, as forests rise, animals roam free and fire and flood undo centuries of construction.

In a world without humans, the deserts once tamed rise to reclaim great triumphs: from Las Vegas to Dubai's Burj Khalifa; as sand, salt, and sun dismantle cities, the wastelands quietly take back the ground borrowed.

After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife and time.

When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground-from subways and pipelines to one of the big coal seams in the United States-begins to unravel.