This illustration was part of The World Without Us series and was featured just before we took down the site in January.

It was commissioned by El Mundo/Expresso Magazine in Portugal and represents another installment in our global disaster series.

You can check out more of our pieces at writer Alan Weisman’s site ‘A World Without Us’.

‘The World Without Us’ is a New Times Best Seller and was voted Time Magazines #1 Non-fiction book of 2007. TWWU is published by Holtzbrinck Publishing, NY and is available at your favourite bookstore.