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  • Fish carcasses Vigo, Spain in the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and is  home to the first fish auction.<br />
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Swordfish and sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. Both species are down to 10 percent of their historic numbers. One of the world’s busiest seafood ports, Vigo auctions half a million tons of fish daily. As Europe’s largest fishing nation, Spain’s people consume 80 pounds of seafood per capita, 50 per cent higher than Europe’s average. Lower fish stocks have caused a 20-year decline in Spain’s catch.
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  • Morning fog rises from craggy mountain peaks in the Alps surrounding the Matterhorn. The Alps range formed when two tectonic plates of Africa dn Eurasia slowly collided millions of years ago creating some of highest peaks in Europe.<br />
Rugged Zinalrothorn and Weisshorn in the background.
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  • Monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Skiers dressed in fashionable clothing wait in a lift line in St. Moritz which has been referred to as "Europe's winter playground."
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  • Fish are unloaded at the world's largest biomass fish shipping port.<br />
A swordfish is brought ashore in Vigo, Spain, one of the busiest seafood ports, handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. <br />
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Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies. <br />
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Yet Spain’s—and Europe’s—appetite for fish keeps growing. The EU is the world’s largest market, taking in 40 percent of all imported fish, with a large chunk coming from developing countries. Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.
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  • Scientists in white lab coats check monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Coffee break time for a scientist at Grimsel Test Site with a photograph of tunnels in the underground nuclear waste disposal research facility. Established in 1984, the centre for underground Research and Development supports a wide range of projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Ceiling panel in the Palazzo Vecchio laminated with pure gold leaf on the frames of the religious paintings.
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  • Ceiling panel in the Palazzo Vecchio laminated with pure gold leaf on the frames of the religious paintings.
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  • The Cathedral of Siena glows with gold leaf paint used on the religious paintings.
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  • The Cathedral of Siena glows with gold leaf paint used on the religious paintings.
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  • Rifat Pinarbas readies his nets on the family fishing boat.
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  • A young girl is part of a typical fishing family enjoying a meal of mussels and other seafood.<br />
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Spain continues to be the European country that consumes the most fish, with 92% of Spanishs consuming fish and aquaculture products every month.
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  • A  young boy poses beside a pallet of sharks in Vigo which has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Swordfish and tuna are the greatest catches and are in decline from overfishing.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<br />
A worker carries a shark on a hook through the facility.
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  • A restaurant owner selects a boiled lobster to serve. It is a favorite among her customers in Galicia, Spain.
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  • A restaurant owner ties a bib on a customer before he enjoy his meal of lobster in Spain where fish is a large part of their diet.<br />
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Olga has the best seafood restaurant in Galicia, Spain.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are among the purest in the world.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are <br />
among the purest in the world.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • Infrastructure near the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy passing 11.6 kilometers under the mountain.<br />
The tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps and was first opened in 1965. A more than seven mile cut was made through Mont Blanc mountain linking Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • A religious Ladin man reads a newspaper while watching a Catholic funeral on television in the kitchen of his farm house in the Dolomites. The community is close-knit and have a language unique to their region in LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • Workers ride an elevator up as they come off shift working to seal off a mercury mine. It is a 500 year old problem that has polluted underground water in Idrija and surrounding areas although closed in 1995. It was the second largest in the world. Mercury can be used to extract silver and gold, therefore the silver and gold-rush motivated mercury mining. The mining industry brought science, technological advancements, and industry to this mountainous region but it also created considerable medical problems and health hazard due to its toxicity.
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  • Onlookers watch an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Dancing in a Barcelona nightclub.
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  • A father takes his son on his roll-aboard suitcase to the bus.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • An elderly woman has a front-window view of a Good Friday procession.
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  • Physical therapy room at the largest nursing home facility in Italy.
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  • Opera lessons at a nursing home.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Immigrant Indians at a Sikh festival in Barcelona.
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  • A farmer splits logs for firewood to heat the farm through winter in an Alpine rural village of LaVal in the Dolomite mountains in Italy.
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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • Bird's-eye view of a vineyard and train tracks running through the bustling city of Balzano in the South Tyrol province of northern Italy. Set in a valley amid steep hills, it is a gateway to the Dolomites mountain range in the Italian Alps.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • A glacier recedes near the Matterhorn leaving ridges and jagged peaks where there was once ice. Much of the iconic mountain was carved away by glacial erosion. <br />
The National Snow and Ice Data Center describes Matterhorn geology in "All About Glaciers." Cirques are rounded hollows or bowl shapes after a glacier has melted away. Aretes are jagged narrow rides created when two glaciers meet eroding on both sides. And horns are created when several cirque glaciers erode until all that is left is a steep, pointed peak with sharp ridge-like Arêtes leading to the top.
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  • Morning fog rises over a summit cross on Zinalrothorn and other mountain peaks in the Alps surrounding the Matterhorn.
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  • Japanese tourists gather and take pictures from the main plaza in Zermatt  where they can view the famous near-symmetric pyramidal peak, the Matterhorn. It straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy.
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  • Japanese tourists visit Heidiland, home of the fictional character Heidi from the book by Johanna Spryri. It is a destination for an idyllic look at the Swiss countryside in the Alps even on a rainy day requiring umbrellas.
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  • Aerial view of morning fog rising from the Dolomites, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbering 18 peaks which rise above 3,000 meters. Jagged ridges  are made of  characteristic rock consisting of fossilized coral reefs formed during the Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago) by organisms and sedimentary matter at the bottom of the ancient tropical Tethys Ocean.
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  • Dimly lit tunnels through the Alps allow traffic to avoid snow-covered passes.
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  • A blur envelopes a young parishioner who carries a candle-lit canvas lantern in a processional that celebrates Christians' Holy Week. It is a centuries-old annual Mendrisio tradition.
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  • Monday is laundry day at Val Mustair.  Nuns working to hang clothes to dry in the sun are reflected in windows overlooking the Christian convent courtyard. A world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, the convent is home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work but they come together for prayer and meals. Eleven of the nuns who live there speak a variation of the Romanche language.
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  • A nun hangs laundry out to dry in the cloistered convent courtyard at Val Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Benedictine nuns since the 12thCentury.
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  • Monday is laundry day at Val Mustair as nuns fold a flowered sheet in the convent courtyard. The world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site is in the Swiss Alps. Founded in the 8th century, the Christian convent is home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work and they come together for meals and prayer.
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  • A nun tunes her guitar while her sisters rehearse music in the cloistered Convent St. John in Val Mustair. A UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Christian Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century.
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  • Nuns pray in the chapel at Convent at St. John Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work and they come together for Christian prayer and meals.
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  • Girlfriends cuddle puppies that bring them joy in a family's barn in the Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Beloved icons, St. Bernard dogs were once indispensable for their abilities to save people buried by avalanches. Although replaced by modern equipment, traditions die hard and the dogs are maintained as a tourist attraction.  200 years ago St Bernard dogs saved 45 of Napoleon’s soldiers buried in an avalanche—the dog was bayoneted to death when one soldier thought he was being attacked by a bear.  St. Bernards are cared for by a foundation in Martigny, France.
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  • After a candle-lit bath in milk and honey, a couple is served champagne, then they snuggle down in a straw-filled bed. Luxury spas find unique ways to attract tourists.
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  • A couple shares a milk-and-honey bath in a bathroom lit by candles at a luxury spa in the Alps. Tourists are attracted to unique experiences offered at various, unique resorts.
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  • View of the iconic Matterhorn and surrounding mountains in the Alps.  First ascent of the 14,692-foot mountain was in 1865 although four climbers died on the descent. <br />
The National Snow and Ice Data Center describes Matterhorn geology in "All About Glaciers." Cirques are rounded hollows or bowl shapes after a glacier has melted away. Aretes are jagged narrow rides created when two glaciers meet eroding on both sides. And horns are created when several cirque glaciers erode until all that is left is a steep, pointed peak with sharp ridge-like Arêtes leading to the top.
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  • A waiter serves tea to guests on a silver tray in the posh Badrutt's Palace Hotel which opened in 1896 and has welcomed celebrities like Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin. Sant Moritz can be formal and elegant, drawing fashionable tourists.
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  • Hairstylist discuss a young model's hairstyle for a charity event fashion show held at Badrutt’s Palace Hotel, a luxurious retreat in St. Moritz. The Swiss hotel, internationally known for its glitz and glamour, opened in 1896 and is still<br />
owned and operated by the same Badrutt family, now in their third generation. Funds were being raised to support a local hospital.
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  • Skiers assemble high atop Aguille du Midi in the French Alps near Mont Blanc. A cable car lift takes tourists one way or round trip from Chamonix for a view of the snow-covered mountain scenery at 3,842 meters. Some skiers ready themselves  for the challenge of a steep, downhill slope.
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  • An evening view of the snow-covered resort town of Sestriere, Italy. Olympic alpine skiing competition was held on the slopes in the Alps during the 2006 competition and now draws tourists to the quiet mountain region.
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  • A logger takes a coffee break near a campfire  while cutting trees in a snow-dusted forest near Lake Bled.
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  • The Ferme family plays traditional music on their Steirische Harmonikas, commonly known as accordions. The patriarch of the family directs the brothers and sister as they rehearse for a competition. Slovenian culture celebrates folk music as part of the Alpine culture.
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  • Slovenians walk along a snow-covered path to a hilltop church near Ljubljana.
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  • A man boards an icy lift up to Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak in the Wetterstein Mountains. Three glaciers flank the mountain that is just over 9,700 feet high. The first ascent was in 1820, but today cable cars transport skiers and sightseers to the top for a view that is obstructed on snowy white-out on this day.
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  • Schleichers ride in ornately decorated horse-drawn carriages in a parade that is part of a traditional celebration. Schleichers wear masks and elaborate hats that weigh 50 pounds - quite an ordeal to balance.  Hats are passed down generations and stored in museums.
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  • "Wild men" in suits of tree lichen celebrate Schleicherlaufen. It is a similar cultural tradition to Carnival but it is held once every five years in early spring when light wins over darkness of winter. Men collect moss in the woods for weeks before and women in Telfs sew it onto clothing to make the costumes for the parade.
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  • Colorful buildings line the banks of the Inn River with its source located in the Engadine region of the Swiss Alps. Flowing through Innsbruck, seen here, it eventually enters the Danube  River.
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  • A village farm woman takes a break from raking hay with her nephew on the family farm in the community of ethnic Ladin culture that so isolated, the mountain people speak Italian and German but have retained their own language. Generations remain in LaVal, choosing a simple life for its richness and connection to the land.
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  • Children wearing sunglasses and designer outfits prepare back stage for a charity fashion show in the exclusive, glamorous resort town of St. Moritz. The ritzy, Alpine resort town is located in the Engadine in Switzerland.
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  • Miners traveled underground in Idrija, Slovenia for 500 years to mine mercury.  Now with little need for the metal, the mine closed leaving an environmental nightmare. A small crew works to fill in the tunnels to keep heavy metals run off from polluting groundwater. Men take showers after their shift and hang their clothes on hooks.
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  • Lights blur as traffic in the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps. First opened in 1965, the more than seven mile cut through Mont Blanc mountain links Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • Over 700 children carry hundred year old candle-lit lanterns made of canvas as they walk through the streets on Good Friday of Holy Week. The Christian celebration in Mendrisio dates back to the 17th century.
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  • Luzinterruptus, an anonymous art collective in Madrid that creates installation art with plastic waste all over the world.
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  • Women gather compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • Men from a food internet ordering company deliver in re-used glass jars as an attempt to reduce one-use-plastic.
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  • A bottle washing plant so bottles can be re-used instead of recycled.
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  • A bottle washing plant so bottles can be re-used instead of recycled.
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  • An internet-connected-composting-urinal in the bar district of Nantes, France.
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  • A billboard encouraging people to use recycled glass bottles to carry their liquids instead of using plastic packaging.
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  • A community composter with a green roof to gather water used during the process.
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  • A woman practices the zero waste lifestyle
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  • A couple who live in public housing practice the zero waste lifestyle
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  • A couple who live in public housing practice the zero waste lifestyle
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  • Mussels served at a Paris restaurant.
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  • A woman at cafe in Paris, France.
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  • Luzinterruptus, an anonymous art collective in Madrid that creates installation art with plastic waste all over the world.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Sculpted bronze doors on the baptistry next to the Cathedral of Siena.
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  • Early morning rays of sunlight peek over jagged peaks in the Dolomite Mountains, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems.
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  • During Holy Week in Mendrisio, Christians dressed in white robes carry canvas lanterns, some over a hundred years old, The crosses are lit by candles and somberly carried through the streets for a passion play processional.
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  • Each Wednesday these friends gather for skiing and homemade wine away from the trendy ski resorts in the Swiss Alps.
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  • Lined up at the start of a ski marathon, man competes dressed in a colorful feather headdress and costume depicting an native American Indian. The Engadine Valley event attracting over 16,000 skiers began in 1969.
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  • Aerial view of some of the 16,000 participants in the Ski Marathon as Nordic skiers trek across frozen upper Engadine valley. The winter event has been hosted since 1969 drawing athletes and tourists to mountain communities around Saint Moritz in the Alps.
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  • Twilight falls on the Ladin village of LaVal in the snow-covered Dolomites. Perched on the lush green, mountain hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara.
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  • A Ladin man collects a pail of water from a cattle trough and traverses carefully across a sheet of ice. Life is hard in rural, isolated villages like LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
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  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
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  • Two Ladin men share the news over a cup of morning coffee in a restaurant in the village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • A farm worker drives his pickup truck into the field to herd cows to the barn for morning milking in the rural, northern Austria's Alpine region.
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  • Svans compete to see who can pick up the biggest rock.
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